How did the USSR emerge as a Superpower?

Question 1

What are the 3 factors? (PEM)

Answer 1

Political
Economic
Military

Question 2

What are the 3 factors?

Answer 2

Political
Economic
Military

Question 3

Explain the Political Factor

Answer 3

> Yalta conference = disagreement with Churchill and Roosevelt - so establishes soviet governments across Eastern Europe
Eastern Bloc
Cold War - allowed Stalin to keep control of USSR and get support from other Eastern communist leaders

Question 4

Explain the Economic Factor

Answer 4

> Stalin’s war geared economy
Priorities of the 4the 5yp
‘Economic Boom’
Link = nuclear weaponryaaaa

Question 5

Explain Military Factor

Answer 5

Victory of WW2 (lead to Yalta Conference - for victorious countries)
Creation of Nuclear Weapons - 1949
Established equality with USA

Question 6

What month and year was the Yalta Conference? (Political)

Answer 6

Feb 1945

Question 7

Who lead the Military in Nuclear Weaponry? (military)

Answer 7

Igor Kurchatov

Question 8

When was the First nuclear bomb completed?

Answer 8

1949 - two years quicker than USA

Question 9

What was the Economic Boom? (Economic)

Answer 9

By 1952, production was double that of 1940