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1918 - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk according to which Russia ceded large tracts of land to Germany, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan proclaim their independence from Russia.

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1920 - War With Poland (Polish-Soviet War)

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1920 - War With Poland (Polish-Soviet War)

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Cause of the war was an attempt by the Second Polish Republic to expand their territory, and because the Russians wanted to use Polish territory as a transit route to other communist territories. The war ended in a cease-fire and resulted in a permanent border between both countries. In total around 200,000 people lost their lives in this war. - Caleb Jaramillo

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The Riga Peace was a book that called for peace in the Polish-Soviet War. The Riga Peace established the central part of the Soviet western border and provided Eastern Europe with a measure of stability that lasted until 1939. - Caleb Jaramillo

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In January, 1921 the Soviet Government decided to annex Georgia. The 11th Red Army was to advance into Georgia on the pretext of supporting the “peasants and workers rebellion against the local Social-Democratic (Menshevik) government” in the country. - Caleb Jaramillo

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Union treaty formally joins Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasia - Estefani -which were divided in 1936 into Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan - into the Soviet Union. - Caleb Jaramillo

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In recent years this national tragedy has become widely known as the Holodomor (from moryty holodom ‘to kill by means of starvation’). This tragic event caused mass starvation in the grain -growing regions of Soviet Russia and Kazakhstan. - Caleb Jaramillo

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While the waves of repression that rolled across Ukraine in the early 1930s were mainly directed against Ukrainians, the Great Purge of 1937-38 encompassed the entire Soviet Union and all categories of people. Its goal was to sweep away all of Stalin's real and imaginary enemies and to infuse all levels of Soviet society, - Caleb Jaramillo

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1939 - Soviet Union Launches Attack on Finland (Winter War)

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1939 - Soviet Union Launches Attack on Finland (Winter War)

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On 30 November, Soviet forces invaded Finland with 21 divisions, totaling some 450,000 men, and bombed Helsinki. Later the Finnish statesman J.K. Paasikivi commented that the Soviet attack without a declaration of war violated three different non-aggression pacts: the Treaty of Tartu signed in 1920, the non-aggression pact between Finland and the Soviet Union signed in 1932 and again in 1934, and also the Charter of the League of Nations, which the Soviet Union signed in 1934. C.G.E. - Caleb Jaramillo

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This article deals with the occupation of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War (1939–1945). In the beginning of the war (September, 1939) the territory of Poland was divided between the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (USSR). In summer-autumn 1941 the territories annexed by the Soviets were overrun by Nazi Germany in the course of the initially successful German attack on the USSR. - Caleb Jaramillo

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The Battle of Halbe lasted from April 24 - May 1, 1945 was a battle in which the German Ninth Army, under the command of Colonel General Theodor Busse was destroyed as a fighting force by the Red Army during the Battle for Berlin. - Caleb Jaramillo

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Although relations between the Soviet Union and the United States had been strained in the years before World War II, the U.S.-Soviet alliance of 1941–1945 was marked by a great degree of cooperation and was essential to securing the defeat of Nazi Germany. Without the remarkable efforts of the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front, the United States and Great Britain would have been hard pressed to score a decisive military victory over Nazi Germany. - Caleb Jaramillo

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On the night of 1–2 May, most of the remnants of the Berlin garrison attempted to break out of the city Centre in three different directions. Only those that went west through the Tiergarten and crossed the Charlottenbrücke (a bridge) into Spandau succeeded in breaching Soviet lines. However, only a handful of those who survived the initial breakout made it to the lines of the Western Allies—most were either killed or captured by the Red Army's outer encirclement forces west of the city. - Caleb Jaramillo

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1949 - Soviet Union Tests its First Atomic Bomb

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1949 - Soviet Union Tests its First Atomic Bomb

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It is also known as Joe-1, in reference to Joseph Stalin. It was test-exploded on 29 August 1949, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. The RDS-1 explosion yielded 22 kilotons of TNT, similar to the American Gadget and Fat Man bombs. At Lavrenty Beria's insistence, the RDS-1 bomb was designed after the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. - Caleb Jaramillo

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1957 - Soviet Union Launched Sputnik 1 Sattelite

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1957 - Soviet Union Launched Sputnik 1 Sattelite

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Sputnik 1 was the world's first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. It was launched into a low altitude elliptical orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957, and was the first in a series of satellites collectively known as the Sputnik program. The unanticipated announcement of Sputnik 1's success precipitated the Sputnik crisis in the United States and ignited the Space Race within the Cold War. - Caleb Jaramillo

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The Soviet Union went on to launch a series of additional Sputnik satellites. Sputnik 2, for example, carried a dog into space, named Laika. Sputnik 2 weighed 1120 pounds. It was launched on November 3, 1957. The launch site was again the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is located near the city of Tyuratam in Kazakhstan, close to the Aral Sea. Laika was the first living creature to orbit the Earth. - Caleb Jaramillo

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1959 - Luna 2 Becomes the First Spacecraft to Reach the Moon

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1959 - Luna 2 Becomes the First Spacecraft to Reach the Moon

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Officially named the Second Soviet Cosmic Rocket, the spacecraft released its one kilogram of natrium on 12 September at a distance of 156,000 kilometers from Earth in a cloud that expanded out to 650 kilometers in diameter and was clearly visible from the ground. Fortunately, this sixth attempt at lunar impact was much more accurate than its predecessors. The spacecraft successfully reached the surface of the Moon - Caleb Jaramillo