High Stalinism 1945-53

Question 0

1947

Answer 0

Truman doctrine, Marshall Plan

Question 1

1946

Answer 1

‘Iron curtain’ speech

Question 2

1948

Answer 2

Beginning of Berlin Blockade

Question 3

Causes of Berlin Blockade

Answer 3

Merging of France/Britain/USA’s parts of Germany into one economic ‘trizone’ with a new currency

Question 4

Total cost of Berlin airlift

Answer 4

$224 million

Question 5

Length of Berlin Airlift

Answer 5

318 days

Question 6

Planes landing during Airlift

Answer 6

Every 3 minutes

Question 7

Symbolism of Berlin Airlift

Answer 7

West would not relinquish hold on it, symbol of resistance to Stalin/communism, beginning of Cold War, testing Wests resilience

Question 8

Political event 1949

Answer 8

Leningrad purge

Question 9

Causes of Leningrad Purge

Answer 9

Attack Zhdanov’s power base of supporters, encourage rivalry between Stalin’s most powerful supporters

Question 10

Consequences of Leningrad Purge

Answer 10

200 party officials killed

Question 11

Social event 1949

Answer 11

Stalin’s 70th birthday, massive propaganda campaign, projection above Kremlin

Question 12

1950 foreign policy

Answer 12

Korean War, escalation of Cold War

Question 13

Date politburo replaced with praesidium and reasons

Answer 13

1952, to reduce power of old guard

Question 14

Date of stalin’s death

Answer 14

March 1953

Question 15

Date of doctors’ plot

Answer 15

January 1953

Question 16

Causes of doctors plot

Answer 16

Zhdanov’s death, stalin’s paranoia and though that a coup was going to take place

Question 17

Consequences of doctors plot

Answer 17

Open anti-semitism, top kremlin doctors arrested

Question 18

Foreign policy occurrence 1953

Answer 18

East German workers uprising, 300 on strike, military intervention

Question 19

People in power following stalin’s death

Answer 19

Khrushchev - party secretary, malenkov - secretary to CC and chair of council of ministers, Beria - MVD, Molotov - foreign affairs

Question 20

Krushchev’s first move to power

Answer 20

Arrest and death of Beria

Question 21

Economic event 1949

Answer 21

Testing of first soviet A-bomb

Question 22

Economic event 1953

Answer 22

Testing of first soviet H-bomb

Question 23

Impact of the Cold War on the USSR

Answer 23

Economic burden of arms race and maintaining military presence in satellite states, social clampdown and terror, propaganda campaigns, political control heightened and stalin’s paranoia, no travel/materials from abroad

Question 24

Stalin’s methods of maintaining control post war

Answer 24

Social - purges, terror, propaganda campaigns, cult of personality/Party - intensifying control of economy, less use of presidium or CC/rebuilding the Economy through 5YPS

Question 25

Political/foreign policy event 1946

Answer 25

Est. Cominform

Question 26

Causes of the Cold War

Answer 26

Suspicions rising from the GPW, idealogical differences, development of USA’s nuclear weapons, Berlin ‘48/49

Question 27

Harvest in 1945 was…

Answer 27

60% of pre-war harvests

Question 28

Amount of collective farmers in 1945 was…

Answer 28

1/3 of 1941

Question 29

Investment from 1945-50

Answer 29

90% into capital goods

Question 30

Statistic on overall economy post war

Answer 30

GNP growth was 8.9%pa 1946-50

Question 31

Levels of agricultural production post war

Answer 31

1940-100gi, 1945-60, 1950-aimed for 127 achieved 99

Question 32

Armed forces in 1947…

Answer 32

Were reduced from 11 to 2.7 million standing army

Question 33

Between 1947 and ‘52 there were…

Answer 33

No CC or politburo meetings

Question 34

Total people sent to gulags 1929-53

Answer 34

14 million, total deaths 10