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
When and where did Nixon and Brezhnev sign SALT1
Moscow May 1972
When were the Helsinki Accords signed
summer 1975
how many countries signed the Helsinki Accords
35
When did the Soviets invade afghanistan
Christmas Day 1979
By 1989, US military expenditure was –% higher than it had been at the peak of the Vietnam War
43%
When did Mikhail Gorbachev become leader of the Soviet Union
11 March 1985
When did the Berlin Wall fall
9 November 1989
What Trotsky quote do I use
“Either the Russian revolutionary movement will create a revolutionary movement in Europe, or the European powers will destroy the Soviet Union.”
What year was the Hungarian Uprising crushed
1956
How many died when the USSR crushed the Hungarian Uprising
30 000
When did Khrushchev form the Warsaw Pact
May 1955
What year was the second Berlin Crisis
1958
What year did Gorbachev withdraw the Red Army from Afghanistan
1988
When was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
March 1918
What year was the Treaty of Riga
1920
What year was the Litvinov protocol
1929
When was the Kellogg-Briandt Pact
27 August 1928
The Spanish Republic sent the USSR how much in payment for the USSR helping them in the Spanish Civil War 1936- ‘39
500 million dollars of its gold reserves
When was D-Day
6 June 1944
When was Marshall Aid
March 1948
How much did the US spend with Marshall Aid
$13 billion
When did Stalin form the COMECON
25 January 1949
When did Stalin die
5 March 1953
what was glasnost
greater transparency
what was perestroika
western-style economic reforms
By———– all communist regimes in Eastern Europe had fell
Christmas 1989
