Soviet's Iran Hostage Crisis

Timeline
1917 : After being deposed by the Russian revolution, Czar Nicholas II and his family emigrates to the United Kingdom.

November 1952 : The Ivy Mike thermonuclear bomb fizzles due to unforeseen technical errors.

August 1953: The Soviet Union successfully tested the world's first hydrogen bomb with their RDS-6 weapon. This shocked the U.S. which began to plan a response to this. Iran's prime minister Mossadegh survives a coup

September 1957 : USA sent up Vanguard 1 the first satellite into space.

 October 1957: Soviet Russia sent up their Sputnik 1.

 1959: Russia's Luna 1 is the first to hit the Moon while America's Pioneer 4 is the first to go into interplanetary space.

1961: USSR sent Yuri Gagarin into space with a PKA spaceplane, though not into orbit. Later on US responded by sending Neil Armstrong into orbit with a X-15B spaceplane.

1965: Astronaut Ed White made the first spacewalk.

1969 : Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the Moon.

 1979: Revolution broke out in Iran to protest the Shah. Soviet embassy was stormed and its staff taken hostage. Russia invades Afghanistan.

 1980: After a failed attempt to rescue the hostages, USSR proceeds to invade Iran and annexes its Azeri provinces.

 1990: Soviet Union is broken up.

