Foreign relations

Question 1

Where did the British attack in Russia

Answer 1

They went to the north to Murmansk, to blockade trade to Russia through the Baltic Sea

Question 2

Where did the U.S troops go?

Answer 2

11,000 went to Vladivostok in the east

Question 3

Where did the Japanese go?

Answer 3

Eastern Siberia

Question 4

What happened in the south with France and Britain?

Answer 4

They blocked trade to Russia through the Black and Caspian Seas.

Question 5

Why did the allies want to get involved in the conflict initially?

Answer 5

They wanted Russia back in the war so that they had another ally against Germany so they wouldn’t concentrate their troops onto France

Question 6

Why did the Allies want to help with weapons?

Answer 6

The Allies sent Russia many weapons in WW1 and didn’t want the Bolsheviks using them.

Question 7

Why did the Alliss intervene after WW1?

Answer 7

They wanted to help the Whites to combat Bolshevism

Question 8

Why was the attempt at helping the Whites ineffective?

Answer 8

They didn’t want to fight in another war because they just came from WW1.
They also didn’t communicate well and didn’t know who to ally with

Question 9

What was the effect of foreign intervention?

Answer 9

The battles were too small scale to have any large effect on the outcome
The Japanese in Siberia were large but had no effect on the war
They did help the Whites initially

Question 10

Foreign intervention was one of the reasons for the Whites losing the war?
Could this be a question

Answer 10

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Question 11

What was the Comintern?

Answer 11

An international organisation that tried to promote Marxism and spread proletariat revolution globally.

Question 12

Who came to the Comintern congress?

Answer 12

USA
Australia
Japan

Question 13

When was Comintern created?

Answer 13

In 1919

Question 14

What were the key issues risen at the first Comintern congress?

Answer 14

Lenin promoted the soviet system as the best war of spreading Marxism

Question 15

What was the delegates opinion about the first Comintern congress?

Answer 15

Positive, even though there was the Spartacist uprising in Germany, they still thought that there would be a world wide communist revolution

Question 16

When was the second Comintern congress?

Answer 16

End of 1920

Question 17

What were the key issues risen at the second Comintern congress?

Answer 17

Lenin’s 21 conditions that were the requirements to be a Comintern member

Question 18

What was the delegates opinion about the second Comintern congress?

Answer 18

Mixed because some didn’t like the conditions but others thought that the Bolsheviks would win the war

Question 19

When was the third Comintern congress?

Answer 19

In 1921

Question 20

What was the delegates opinion about the third Comintern congress?

Answer 20

The recovery of the bourgeoisie in countries like Poland and Germany

Question 21

What were the key issues risen at the third Comintern congress?

Answer 21

Disappointed, they expected revolutions and instead got bourgeois democracies. So Russia was the only Bolshevik country in the world

Question 22

What happened to Poland in

1918

Answer 22

It became its own country And were trying to get more territory from
Russia and Russia was do in the same.

Question 23

What happened with Russia and Poland in 1919

Answer 23

The Poles and Bolsheviks had a conflict

Question 24

Who did the Poles ally with in 1920?

Answer 24

They allies with the Ulraism to take Kiev from the Bolsheviks

Question 25

What happened at Warsaw?

Answer 25

The Bolsheviks pushed the Poles to Warsaw but then Poland won

Question 26

When was the Riga treaty made?

Answer 26

Early 1921

Question 27

What was the Rapallo Treaty

Answer 27

It was between Russia and Germany because they were isolated by the other countries in the League of Nations

Question 28

What was the key terms of the Treaty

Answer 28

Russia and Germany would both take pay compensation for WW1
Their form diplomatic relations opened
Mutual goodwill was stressed in commercial and economic relations
German my could carry out military training in Russia

Question 29

Why was Germany being allowed to have troops in Russia important?

Answer 29

In the Treaty of Versailles they couldn’t have a large army, so now they could still grow their army and keep it big

Question 30

What was the Zinoviev letter?

Answer 30

A letter from Zinoviev was published by newspapers asking the British Communist party to infiltrate the Labour Party to bring Leninism to Britain

Question 31

What was the affect of the Zinoviev letter?

Answer 31

It soured relations and made Britain more hostile towards Russia, so they were less friendly