CHAPTER 8-FOREIGN RELATIONS

Question 1

Which country provided the largest intervention forces at Vladivostok and North Russia?

Answer 1

US troops

Question 2

How many troops did the US send to Vladivostok and North Russia?

Answer 2

Vladivostok- 11,000

North Russia- 4500

Question 3

When did President Wilson pull American troops out of North Russia through being unconvinced of their purpose?

Answer 3

June 1919

Question 4

What year did US troops in Vladivostok remain until?

Answer 4

1920

Question 5

From 1918-1920 what was the extent of area in Russia where foreign intervention were stationed?

Answer 5

From the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea

Question 6

What was the motive behind foreign intervention in 1918?

Answer 6

to keep Russia fighting in the First World War

Question 7

Why did foreign interventionists want Russia to keep fighting in WW1?

Answer 7

In order to delay the mass transfer of German forces from the Eastern Front to the West

Question 8

What was a lesser motive of western countries to keep Russia fighting in WW1?

Answer 8

to protect the vast dumps of armaments and war materials that had been shipped to Russia by the Allies

Question 9

What were the 4 main areas of intervention in Russia?

Answer 9

• North Russia
• Far East
• Southern Russia, Ukraine, the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea
• Central Siberia

Question 10

Where did British troops patrol in North Russia?

Answer 10

in the Baltic Sea

Question 11

Where were Australian, Canadian and Italian forces stationed in North Russia?

Answer 11

Archangel’sk

Question 12

How many Estonian troops were in the War of Independence in North Russia?

Answer 12

11,000

Question 13

Which troops patrolled in the Baltic Sea?

Answer 13

British troops

Question 14

Which 3 forces were stationed in Archangel’sk in North Russia?

Answer 14

• Australian
• Canadian
• Italian

Question 15

Which area of Russia did 11,000 American troops at Vladivostok occupy?

Answer 15

the Far East

Question 16

In the Far East how many British and Chinese forces were there?

Answer 16

• British-=small force

- Chinese=2000 troops

Question 17

Which forces occupied Southern Russia?

Answer 17

British and French forces

Question 18

Who occupied sections of the Trans-Siberian railway in Central Siberia?

Answer 18

Czech Legion

Question 19

When was the arrival of Japanese warship at Vladivostok?

Answer 19

January 1918

Question 20

When were the first British forces sent to Murmansk after the Treaty of Brest-Litvosk?

Answer 20

March 1918

Question 21

Other than British forces being stationed at Murmansk in March 1918, what also happened?

Answer 21

the beginning of naval blockade of trade and shipping going to Soviet Russia

Question 22

What played a factor in bringing British forces out of Russia in 1919-1920?

Answer 22

a domestic “Hands off Russia” movement by socialists

Question 23

When was the arrival of German forces in Latvia?

Answer 23

February 1919

Question 24

In February 1919 where was the arrival of German forces?

Answer 24

Latvia

Question 25

When was the evacuation of US troops from Archangel’sk?

Answer 25

June 1919

Question 26

Which foreign intervention troops made a naval assault on a Soviet battle fleet at Petrograd in August 1919?

Answer 26

British force

Question 27

When were polish armies in the Ukraine defeated by the Red Army ?

Answer 27

June 1920

Question 28

When was the trade agreement between Russia and Britain which recognised the Bolshevik state?

Answer 28

November 1920

Question 29

What was a problem for Allied governments during the Civil War in Russia?

Answer 29

they had little accurate or up to date knowledge of what was happening

Question 30

Who did Allied governments rely on due to having little knowledge of what was happening in Russia?

Answer 30

a handful of individuals (spies) who sent snippets of information

Question 31

What were a disadvantage of using foreign ‘spies’ in Russia?

Answer 31

reports were sometimes misleading encouraging a degree of wishful thinking

Question 32

Who are examples of spies that could provide bias information of activities in Russia ? (2)

Answer 32

Arthur Ransome, fell in love with Trotsky’s secretary Yevgenia

Sidney Reilly who was strongly anti-Bolshevik

Question 33

Who did President Wilson send to Russia in March 1919 to discuss peace ?

Answer 33

Bullitt

Question 34

In return for a ceasefire and end to the blockade, What was Lenin prepared to do?

Answer 34

Lenin was prepared to tolerate the continuation of temporary governments in parts of Russia

Question 35

Why did Bullitts peace deal with Lenin lapse?

Answer 35

Britain and France and Wilson were hostile to Bullitt’s deal.

Question 36

Where was a serious offence that Japan launched in Siberia?

Answer 36

on Khabarovsk

Question 37

How many battle deaths were there in the Russian Civil War in Russia and Japan?

Answer 37

Russia-500,000

Japan-1550

Question 38

Which was the foreign intervention with the most battle deaths during the civil war with 1550 deaths?

Answer 38

Japan