Russia WW1 (dates)

Question 1

Battles of Tannenbergand the Masurian Lakes - defeats

Answer 1

Late 1914

Question 2

Germans occupied Warsaw and Russians forced to evacuate

Answer 2

August 1915

Question 3

Temperatures at -30 to -40 degrees

Answer 3

Winter 1916-17

Question 4

Rasputin is murdered

Answer 4

December 1916

Question 5

140,000 workers go on strike in commemoration of Bloody Sunday

Answer 5

9th January 1917

Question 6

100,000 still on strike

Answer 6

14th February 1917

Question 7

Revolution begins

Tsarist government announces food rationing - leads to panic buying

Answer 7

19th February 1917

Question 8

International Women’s Day

Answer 8

23rd February 1917

Question 9

Strikes expand. Better weather allows more people to join

Answer 9

25th February 1917

Question 10

Tsar orders troops to fire on unruly protestors. Dozens killed

Answer 10

26th February 1917

Question 11

2 garrisons of soldiers shoot their officers

Mensheviks and striking workers reform the Petrograd Soviet

Answer 11

27th February 1917

Question 12

Tsar delayed in attempts to return to Petrograd

Answer 12

28th February 1917

Question 13

Leaders of France and Britain recognise the Provisional Government

Answer 13

1st March 1917

Question 14

Nicholas abdicates in favour of his brother Michael

Provisional Government was formed

Answer 14

2nd March 1917

Question 15

Romanov rule is ended after 300 years as Michael refuses the throne unless asked by the constituent assembly

Provisional Government sets out 8 principles of government

Answer 15

3rd March