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6. Comintern, created in 1918, did not outline which of these conditions?

  • Uphold true democratic elections within Russia
  • Create an illegal organisation for subversive works
  • Conduct truly communist propaganda and agitation
  • Remove all reformists and supporters of centrist opinions from responsible posts

7. The Zinoviev letter occured in which nation and when?

  • USA 1926
  • Japan 1923
  • Britain 1924
  • Germany 1921

8. What was the name of the party that Stalin initially supported in the Chinese civil war?

  • Bolshevik party led by Xiao Ming
  • Neither party
  • Guomindang party led by Chiang Kai-Shek
  • Communist party led by Mao

9. What was NOT said in the Long Telegram of 1946?

  • malignant paradise
  • The Novikov Telegram was a lie
  • no permanent modus vivendi

10. What did the Marshall Plan of 1947 do?

  • Threatened the Western countries if they turned to communism
  • Gave $17bn to suffering European countries
  • Offset the popularity of Comecon in 1949
  • Intended to issue dollar imperialism across Europe

11. What was the main message of the Truman Doctrine in 1947?

  • contain spread of communism
  • find peaceful co-existence
  • Star-wars
  • Iron curtain had divided Europe

12. How soon after the USA did the USSR develop an atomic bomb?

  • within 7 years
  • within 1 year
  • within 4 years
  • within 2 years

13. The Warsaw Uprising was fought how?

  • War of attrition
  • Guerilla warfare
  • Salami tactics
  • frontal combat

14. In what year did Britain break off diplomatic relations with the USSR?

  • 1925
  • 1929
  • 1927
  • 1932

15. When was the Treaty of Rapallo made?

  • 1922
  • 1921
  • 1924
  • 1920

16. Which was the exception to the control of satellite states under Stalin?

  • Hungary
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Tito's Yugoslavia
  • Pilsudski's Poland

17. When did the USSR develop a hydrogen bomb?

  • 1953
  • 1947
  • 1949
  • 1952

18. When was the Berlin Blockade?

  • 1948/49
  • 1950
  • 1947/48
  • 1947-49

19. When was NATO founded?

  • 1946
  • 1949
  • 1947
  • 1952

20. What was the name of the German policy that threatened Russia?

  • Comecon
  • sub-humans
  • lebensraum
  • Blitzkrieg