Key essay points

Question 1

What did Lenin use the post-war economies to do

Answer 1

facilitate a surge in left-wing militancy across Europe

Question 2

How much money did the British give to the Whites in the Russian Civil war by 1919

Answer 2

£45 million

Question 3

When was the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement

Answer 3

16 March 1921

Question 4

When did the USSR gain formal recognition from Germany, Britain and the USA respectively

Answer 4

Germany 1922
Britain 1924
USA 1933

Question 5

When was the Dawes Plan

Answer 5

April 1924

Question 6

What year was the Locarno treaty

Answer 6

1925

Question 7

When was the French-USSR Non-Agression PAct

Answer 7

November 1932

Question 8

Who led ‘collective security’

Answer 8

Litvinov

Question 9

Finish this line:
Hitler and Mussolini’s relationship improved, and Britain and France followed an appeasement policy for Hitler, responding weakly to the…

Answer 9

German occupation of the Rhineland 1936, Austria ‘38 and Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia October 1935

Question 10

What year was the Munich Agreement

Answer 10

1938

Question 11

When was the Anti-Comintern Pact

Answer 11

November 1936

Question 12

When was the Nazi-Soviet Pact

Answer 12

23 August 1939

Question 13

When was Operation barbarossa

Answer 13

June 1941

Question 14

When was the anti-Comintern Pact

Answer 14

November 1936

Question 15

When did the Japanese bomb pearl harbour

Answer 15

7 December 1941

Question 16

When was the Yalta Conference

Answer 16

February 1945

Question 17

When was the Truman Doctrine

Answer 17

12 March 1947

Question 18

When was Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech

Answer 18

March 1946

Question 19

When was NATO formed

Answer 19

4 April 1949

Question 20

By 1960, how many nuclear weapons did the USA possess

Answer 20

40 000

Question 21

What year did Khrushchev remove the Red Army from Austria

Answer 21

1955

Question 22

When did Khrushchev attend his three summit ‘Spirit of Geneva’ meetings and where

Answer 22

US (1959), Paris (1960) and Vienna (1961)

Question 23

What year was the Berlin Wall built

Answer 23

1961

Question 24

When was the Brezhnev Doctrine

Answer 24

November 1968

Question 25

When and where did Nixon and Brezhnev sign SALT1

Answer 25

Moscow May 1972

Question 26

When were the Helsinki Accords signed

Answer 26

summer 1975

Question 27

how many countries signed the Helsinki Accords

Answer 27

35

Question 28

When did the Soviets invade afghanistan

Answer 28

Christmas Day 1979

Question 29

By 1989, US military expenditure was –% higher than it had been at the peak of the Vietnam War

Answer 29

43%

Question 30

When did Mikhail Gorbachev become leader of the Soviet Union

Answer 30

11 March 1985

Question 31

When did the Berlin Wall fall

Answer 31

9 November 1989

Question 32

What Trotsky quote do I use

Answer 32

“Either the Russian revolutionary movement will create a revolutionary movement in Europe, or the European powers will destroy the Soviet Union.”

Question 33

What year was the Hungarian Uprising crushed

Answer 33

1956

Question 34

How many died when the USSR crushed the Hungarian Uprising

Answer 34

30 000

Question 35

When did Khrushchev form the Warsaw Pact

Answer 35

May 1955

Question 36

What year was the second Berlin Crisis

Answer 36

1958

Question 37

What year did Gorbachev withdraw the Red Army from Afghanistan

Answer 37

1988

Question 38

When was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Answer 38

March 1918

Question 39

What year was the Treaty of Riga

Answer 39

1920

Question 40

What year was the Litvinov protocol

Answer 40

1929

Question 41

When was the Kellogg-Briandt Pact

Answer 41

27 August 1928

Question 42

The Spanish Republic sent the USSR how much in payment for the USSR helping them in the Spanish Civil War 1936- ‘39

Answer 42

500 million dollars of its gold reserves

Question 43

When was D-Day

Answer 43

6 June 1944

Question 44

When was Marshall Aid

Answer 44

March 1948

Question 45

How much did the US spend with Marshall Aid

Answer 45

$13 billion

Question 46

When did Stalin form the COMECON

Answer 46

25 January 1949

Question 47

When did Stalin die

Answer 47

5 March 1953

Question 48

what was glasnost

Answer 48

greater transparency

Question 49

what was perestroika

Answer 49

western-style economic reforms

Question 50

By———– all communist regimes in Eastern Europe had fell

Answer 50

Christmas 1989