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What does USSR stand for?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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Name four countries that declared independence in 1918.
Any four from Ukraine, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Transcaucasia (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan)
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Which three countries were known as Transcaucasia?
Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
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Which four countries intervened in the civil war?
GB, USA, France, Japan
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What was arguably the primary reason for Japan's intervention? (civil war)
Securing land and ports for themselves
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By what year had all four powers pulled out? (civil war)
1920
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When was the USSR officially formed?
1922
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What was the Comintern?
The Third Communist International
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What was the purpose of the Comintern?
The promotion of world wide revolution (spread Communism)
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Who was made first Chairman of the Comintern?
Grigori Zinoviev
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What event eventually led to Lenin turning away from westward expansion?
Defeat in the war against Poland
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What 3 things did the Rapallo Treaty establish between the USSR and Germany?
Re-established diplomatic relations, cancelled all territorial and financial claims of either side, promised greater economic co-operation
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What was the 1921 agreement between Britain and the USSR called?
The Anglo – Soviet Trade agreement
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What was the effect of the Zinoviev letter?
The new conservative government in Britain remained wary of diplomatic support for the Soviet Union throughout the 1920s
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Who formed the ‘triumvirate’ in 1923 that was hostile to Trotsky?
Stalin, Kamenev, Zinoviev
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Name the three Commissars for foreign affairs in the Soviet Union between April 1918 and March 1949
Chicherin, Litvinov, Molotov
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Who was the Soviet foreign commissar from May 1939?
Molotov
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Name 3 factors that influenced Soviet foreign policy
ideology, security, economic backwardness, views of policy makers, internal situation, attitudes of other countries
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Which 2 treaties started cooperation with Germany?
Rapallo and Berlin treaties
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How did cooperation with the USSR benefit Germany?
The German Army could carry out military operations in vast soviet territory, banned by T of V
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What opened in Moscow in 1933 to aid Soviet – USA relations?
An American Embassy
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In what year did the USSR enter the League of Nations?
1934
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What foreign policy change did Stalin announce in Pravda in 1934?
Soviet Communism was to cooperate with democratic socialists to fight against fascism
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Which two countries did Stalin sign pacts with in 1932?
France and Czechoslovakia
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In what year did Hitler re – militarise the Rhineland?
1936
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What decision did Stalin make in September 1936?
To intervene in the Spanish Civil war
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How did Stalin’s policies in the Spanish Civil war change in 1937?
he now tried to prolong the war to weaken the Nazis
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What did the crisis in Czechoslovakia in 1938 and the subsequent Munich conference teach Stalin?
That the Soviet Union could not rely on or trust the western powers
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What was the anti–Comintern pact signed by Japan and Nazi Germany in 1936?
they agreed to take joint action against ‘interference’ in their internal affairs by the Comintern
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What were the consequences for both Japan and the USSR after the short war they fought between May and September 1939?
Japan – weakened and left USSR alone in the upcoming WWII. USSR – they needed to stay strong in the east and also needed to re – negotiate with Western powers
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In what month and year was the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed?
August 1939
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What benefits did Stalin gain from this agreement?
protection from a German war, breathing space, territorial gains
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What outcome of the beginning of WWII surprised Stalin?
France capitulating so quickly
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In what month and year did Hitler break the Nazi – Soviet Pact?
June 1941
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What seemed to be the one consistency with Stalin’s foreign policy?
Obsession with defending the USSR against all enemies
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When was the Potsdam Conference?
Jul / Aug 1945
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When did Churchill make his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri?
March 1946
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Why was Stalin wary of Leningrad?
‘Window the West’
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What does MAD stand for?
Mutually Assured Destruction
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Name one of the privileges of being a high ranking party member
Access to consumer goods, foreign travel
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How much money did The Truman Doctrine agree would be used to help Greece & Turkey?
4 billion dollars
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In what year did The Communist National Front overwhelmingly win the elections in Czechoslovakia?
1948
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When did Stalin ‘Blockade’ Berlin from the western part of Germany?
June 1948 (BONUS: Do you know why he did this?)
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When did the USSR produce their first Atom bomb?
1949
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Give two examples of anti – cosmopolitan laws in post war USSR
only high-ranking party officials could travel abroad, marriages with foreigners forbidden, foreign films/books/art denounced.
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'Government ceased to function' as Stalin dealt directly with individual officials rather than leading Party as a group. Who said this of Stalin’s post war government?
Molotov
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In what year was Nato formed?
1949
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When was the blockade eventually lifted after the allies airlifted supplies into Berlin?
May 1949
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Which leading member of the politburo who died in 1948 had possibly been marked out by Stalin as his successor?
Zhdanov
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Give two examples of Post WWII Stalinist propaganda.
Appeared taller than Lenin, skin was airbrushed, huge celebrations for his 70th Bday in 1949
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When was the second communist uprising in Greece?
1946
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Who was the US Secretary of State in June 1947?
George Marshall
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What did his plan entail? (George Marshall's plan)
Money to Western powers
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Name the three conferences of the Grand Alliance
Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam
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When did the Korean War end?
1953
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