Dates

Question 0

The Triumvirate was aimed against?

Answer 0

Trotsky

Question 1

Triumvirate of Stalin, Kamenev and Zinoviev formed?

Answer 1

1923-25

Question 2

Lenin died?

Answer 2

Jan 1924

Question 3

New opposition of Kamenev and Zinoviev against the duumvirate of Stalin and Bukharin formed?

Answer 3

1925-26

Question 4

United opposition of Kamenev, Zinoviev and Trotsky against Stalin and Bukharin formed?

Answer 4

1926-27

Question 5

Trotsky was sent to exile?

Answer 5

1927

Question 6

Grain procurement crisis occurred?

Answer 6

1927-8

Question 7

What was the grain procurement crisis?

Answer 7

A significant shortage of food available for the towns

Government was paying very low prices for grain - so peasants were hoarding it

Question 8

1st five year plan?

Answer 8

1928

Question 9

The first five year plan was aimed at developing what?

Answer 9

Heavy industries

Question 10

First show trial was?

Answer 10

The shakhty trial of 53 mining engineers

Question 11

What was the Shakhty trial 1928?

Answer 11

53 mining engineers from the Donbass region were accused of industrial sabotage and conspiring with Germany
49 were convicted
5 were executed

Question 12

When was there a massive drive to collectivise farms in the USSR?

Answer 12

1929-30

Question 13

What were the problems with collectivisation?

Answer 13

Peasants killed and ate animals
Burned down homes
Destroyed farming equipment
Food shortages worsened

Question 14

Dizzy with success was published?

Answer 14

March 1930

Question 15

Dizzy success blamed?

Answer 15

Local officials for the chaos in the countryside

Raising quotas which weren’t being met

Question 16

Union of soviet writers was created?

Answer 16

1932

Question 17

Union of soviet writers replaced what?

Answer 17

The Russian association of proletarian writers

Question 18

Ryutin affair was?

Answer 18

1932

Question 19

2nd five year plan was ?

Answer 19

1933

Question 20

The 2nd 5YP was to…

Answer 20

Improve agricultural output from collectivisation
More mechanical equipment
‘Showpiece’ development for propaganda
New factories
Wages system - rewarded those who worked hard

Question 21

Kirov was murdered?

Answer 21

1934

Question 22

Stalin claimed that kirov’s murder was part of?

Answer 22

A widespread opposition/conspiracy against the government used as an excuse for Stalin to purge

Question 23

Collectivisation was almost completed?

Answer 23

1936

Question 24

Yezhovschina occurred?

Answer 24

1936-38

Question 25

Yezhovschina was the...

Answer 25

Great Terror, led by Yezhov (head of NKVD)

Question 26

Trial of 16 occurred?

Answer 26

1936

Question 27

Trial of 16 involved?

Answer 27

Kamenev and zinoviev

Question 28

Trial of 16 accused kamenev and zinoviev of being members of the...

Answer 28

Trotskyite-Zinovievite counter-revolutionary bloc | With the conspiracy to murder Kirov and undermining 5YP

Question 29

The trial of 17 occurred in?

Answer 29

1937

Question 30

The trial of 17 included?

Answer 30

Radek and pyatakov | Charles with spying for nazi Germany

Question 31

The trial of 21 occurred?

Answer 31

1938

Question 32

The trial of 21 included?

Answer 32

Bukharin, rykov and yagoda Accused of treason & sabotage Accused of plotting to kill Lenin

Question 33

3rd 5YP occurred?

Answer 33

1938

Question 34

3rd 5YP devoted to?

Answer 34

Production of aircraft, tanks and weapons

Question 35

The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was signed?

Answer 35

August 1939

Question 36

The Molotov-Ribbentrop pace was a ...

Answer 36

Non-aggressive treaty signed by the nazis and the USSR | Included a secret deal to split Eastern Europe

Question 37

Operation Barbarossa was launched?

Answer 37

1941

Question 38

Operation Barbarossa was when?

Answer 38

Germany invaded the USSR

Question 39

Lend lease occurred?

Answer 39

1941-45

Question 40

Lend lease was the policy where the?

Answer 40

USA supplied goods to the USSR free of charge until the end of the war

Question 41

Battle of Stalingrad occurred?

Answer 41

1942-3

Question 42

In the battle of Stalingrad , Stalin ordered every able-bodied citizen to be supplied with a rifle to defend the city. This began a ...

Answer 42

Counter-attack, smashed the German line, forcing them to retreat

Question 43

Battle of Kursk occurred?

Answer 43

1943

Question 44

The battle of Kursk was a?

Answer 44

Decisive victory

Question 45

Capture of Berlin was?

Answer 45

May 1945

Question 46

The 4th 5YP occurred?

Answer 46

1946

Question 47

The 4th 5YP helped the USSR's ?

Answer 47

Economy grow bigger

Question 48

The USSR tested an atomic bomb in?

Answer 48

1949

Question 49

Stalin died in?

Answer 49

1953