Key essay points Flashcards
What did Lenin use the post-war economies to do
facilitate a surge in left-wing militancy across Europe
How much money did the British give to the Whites in the Russian Civil war by 1919
£45 million
When was the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement
16 March 1921
When did the USSR gain formal recognition from Germany, Britain and the USA respectively
Germany 1922
Britain 1924
USA 1933
When was the Dawes Plan
April 1924
What year was the Locarno treaty
1925
When was the French-USSR Non-Agression PAct
November 1932
Who led ‘collective security’
Litvinov
Finish this line:
Hitler and Mussolini’s relationship improved, and Britain and France followed an appeasement policy for Hitler, responding weakly to the…
German occupation of the Rhineland 1936, Austria ‘38 and Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia October 1935
What year was the Munich Agreement
1938
When was the Anti-Comintern Pact
November 1936
When was the Nazi-Soviet Pact
23 August 1939
When was Operation barbarossa
June 1941
When was the anti-Comintern Pact
November 1936
When did the Japanese bomb pearl harbour
7 December 1941
When was the Yalta Conference
February 1945
When was the Truman Doctrine
12 March 1947
When was Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech
March 1946
When was NATO formed
4 April 1949
By 1960, how many nuclear weapons did the USA possess
40 000
What year did Khrushchev remove the Red Army from Austria
1955
When did Khrushchev attend his three summit ‘Spirit of Geneva’ meetings and where
US (1959), Paris (1960) and Vienna (1961)
What year was the Berlin Wall built
1961
When was the Brezhnev Doctrine
November 1968
