Dates

Question 1

Russian Revolution

Answer 1

1917

Russian revolution; Tsar overthrown ending autocracy and Provisional Gov made leaders

Question 2

Bolshevik Revolution

Answer 2

1917
Bolshevik Revolution; Provisional gov. were weak & couldn’t deal with inequality and backwardness of Russia; overthrown by Bolsheviks

Question 3

Russian Civil War

Answer 3

1918-1921
Reds fight the Tsarist whites (plus Western troops) and beat them
USSR becomes paranoid since the West attacks them at ‘birth’

Question 4

Comintern

Answer 4

1919

Founded to promote world wide communism - confirms Wests idea that communism is trying to take over the world

Question 5

Great Depression

Answer 5

1929
US economy is rubbish but the USSR is emerging as an industrial / military power - workers move abroad and businesses (Ford) supply engineers on contracts

Question 6

Roosevelt recognises the USSR

Answer 6

1933

US start to change their position to USSR

Question 7

USSR joins League of Naitons

Answer 7

1934

Stalin realizes he needs a more active role with the West as Hitler threatens Communism

Question 8

Moscow Show trials

Answer 8

1936
Old Bolshevik party leaders and various Soviet officials are accused of capitalist conspiricies and tried.
The US hardens it’s stance on communism; police state

Question 9

Munich Agreement

Answer 9

1988
UK & France let Hitler invade Czechoslovakia in the Munich Agreement; Stalin worries they’re setting the Nazis up to destroy Communism.

Question 10

Nazi-Soviet Pact

Answer 10

1939
Stalin & Hitler sign agreement; Stalin gains extra time to prepare for the inevitable war. Horrifies the West and lets Nazis invade Poland

Question 11

Soviet invasion of Poland, Finland & Baltic States

Answer 11

1939-1941

West worried about communism spread

Question 12

Nazis invaded Russia

Answer 12

1941
The USSR was brought into WW2.
The three attacked powers, Britain, USA and the USSR became known as the ‘Grand Alliance’ against the Axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan.

Question 13

Pearl Harbour

Answer 13

1941
The US brought into WW2. The three attacked powers, Britain, USA and the USSR became known as the ‘Grand Alliance’ against the Axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan.

Question 14

Teheran Conference

Answer 14

1943
Teheran conference; strategy to defeat Germany.

Leaders get on; Eastern Europe to be Soviet zone of interest, Stalin will annexe Eastern Poland which will be compensated by German land

Question 15

Casa Blanca

Answer 15

1943

Casa Blanca destroy Nazism – no Stalin.

Question 16

Atlantic Charter

Answer 16

1943
Principles of post war world agreed; democratic world order
(US & Britain v totalitarianism)

Question 17

Warsaw Uprising

Answer 17

1944

Western disgust when USSR armies watch & let Nazis crush a Polish rebellion.
By doing this they mostly remove potential opposition so it’s easy take over

Question 18

Lublin Gov officially proclaimed

Answer 18

1944

Stalin undermines Polish gov. in exile by forming committee of National liberation; Lublin; pro Soviet

Question 19

Normandy Landings

Answer 19

1944
UK & US kept pushing Normandy landings back
Stalin felt the west was letting USSR be attacked

Question 20

Yalta

Answer 20

1945
Yalta; ‘agree’ on UN, Western Polish border, the four D’s for Germany ‘Democratisation, Denazification, Demilitarisation and Decentralisation’
but it’s all vague and open to interpretation; no plan of what/how