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AQA A Level History Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-1953 (2N) > key facts and figures 1941-53 > Flashcards

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1
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Troops captured at Kiev

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665,000

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2
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How many German troops invaded the USSR?

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3 million

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3
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Soviets attempt peace negotiations but ignored by Hitler

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15th October 1941

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4
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Germans halted at Stalingrad

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October 1942

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5
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Siege of Leningrad

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September 1941 –> January 1944

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6
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German advance on Moscow halts

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December 1941
First sign of German hesitation

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7
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Bombardment of Stalingrad

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August 1942 –> February 1943

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8
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Battle of Prokhorovka

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July 1943

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9
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Kursk offensive called off

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July 1943

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10
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Liberation of Kiev

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November 1943

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11
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Tehran summit

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November 1943

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12
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Soviet troops enter Poland

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January 1944

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13
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Siege of Leningrad ends

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January 1944

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14
Q

Stavka formed

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23 June 1941 (1 day after the German invasion)

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15
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Grand alliance with Great Britain began

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June 1941 after the German invasion

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16
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Grand alliance with the US began

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December 1942 after Pearl Harbour

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17
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Rostige liberated by the Red Army

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February 1943

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18
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Launch of Operation Citadel

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July 1943

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19
Q

Vilnius (Lithuania) captured by the Red Army

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July 1944

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20
Q

Soviet siege of Budapest

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December 1944 –> Feb 1945

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21
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Number of time Kharkiv (Ukraine) changed hands (and some dates)

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4
First overrun Oct 1941, liberated August 1943

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22
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Trains used in the movement of factories (numbers)

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  • 3000 a day took steel equipment from the Dnieper area
  • 3000 per day in the electrical industry
  • 25,000 a week shifted factories from the Ukraine
  • 80,000 wagons moved 500 factories from Moscow
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23
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Battle for Berlin casualties

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USSR: 80,000
Germany: 150,000

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24
Q

Red Army win final battle for Berlin

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2 May 1945

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25
Q

Germans surrender unconditionally to the USSR

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May 1945

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26
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Hitler’s suicide

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April 1945

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27
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How many people volunteered for citizens’ defense in 1941?

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4 million

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28
Q

Soviet citizens killed in WWII

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At least 20 million

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29
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Postwar mining, steel production and electricity levels

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~1/2 of 1940 levels in 1945

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30
Q

Military expenditure 1952

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25% of total expenditure

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31
Q

Ukraine’s industrial output 1950

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Higher than before the war

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32
Q

4th 5YP launched

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March 1946

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33
Q

Average Soviet incomes 1948

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Back to 1938 levels

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34
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Production of steel, coal, oil, cement, electricity under the 4th 5YP

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More being produced in 1950 than 1940

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35
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Cotton fabric, wool fabric and sugar production under the 4th 5YP

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Back to pre-war production figures by 1950

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36
Q

The driest year since 1891

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1946

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37
Q

Food production 1945

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60% of 1940 levels

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38
Q

Collective farms destroyed during the war

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98,000

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39
Q

Deaths in the famine 1946-47

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~1.5 million

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40
Q

Ban on selling food from kolkhozniks’ private plots reintroduced

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1948

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41
Q

Dresden bombed

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February 1945

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42
Q

Number of people who fled as a result of Soviet victory

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12 million (many ethnic Germans) as the Red Army advanced westwards

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43
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Soviet citizens in the armed forces dead

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7.5 million

44
Q

Change in size of the armed forces

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1948 –> 53: 2.8 mill –> 4.9 mill

45
Q

Change in military expenditure

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18% –> 25% of total expenditure
1950 –> 52

46
Q

Coal production 1940,45,50

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1940: 165.9
1945: 149.3
1950: 261.1
(million tonnes)

47
Q

Oil production 1940,45,50

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1940: 31.1
1945: 19.4
1950: 37.9
(million tonnes)

48
Q

Horses killed/lost during the war

A

7 million

49
Q

Cattle killed/lost during the war

A

17 million

50
Q

Pigs killed/lost during the war

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20 million

51
Q

Sheep killed/lost during the war

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27 million

52
Q

Tractors lost during the war

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137,000

53
Q

Combine harvesters lost during the war

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49,000

54
Q

Grain production 1940,1947,1950,1952

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1940: 95.6
1947: 65.9
1950: 81.2
1952: 92.2
(million tonnes)

55
Q

Cotton production 1940 and 1952

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2.2 –> 3.8 (million tonnes)

56
Q

Change in proportion of land under cultivation

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75% in 1945 compared to 1940

57
Q

Cattle 1940-52

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1940: 28 million
1952: 25 million

58
Q

In what period were there no Party congresses?

A

1939-59

59
Q

Percentage of returned POWs sent to the gulags

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15% of 1.8 million

60
Q

Marriage to foreigners outlawed

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1947

61
Q

Wartime survivors sent to the gulag

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12 million

62
Q

The Leningrad Affair

A

1940s - early 1950s

63
Q

The ‘Mingrelian Case’

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1951

64
Q

Yalta and Potsdam summit conferences

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1945

65
Q

Marshall Plan and ‘Truman Doctrine’

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1947

66
Q

Communist coup in Czechoslovakia

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1948

67
Q

Berlin blockade

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June 1948 - May 1949

68
Q

Successful test of the Soviet atom bomb

A

August 1949

69
Q

Stalins death

A

March 1953

70
Q

Soviet soldiers

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7.5 million

71
Q

Provisional government set up in Lublin (Poland)

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1945

72
Q

Eastern Germany a Soviet zone of occupation

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1945

73
Q

Moscow-trained communists in political control of eastern Germany

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1946

74
Q

Hungary a satellite state

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1947 (‘salami tactics’)

75
Q

Czechoslovakia a satellite state

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1948 (‘salami tactics’)

76
Q

Baltic States satellite states

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Occupied 1940 (Nazi-Soviet Pact)

77
Q

Eastern Poland a satellite state

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Annexed 1939 (Nazi-Soviet Pact)

78
Q

Yugoslavia a satellite state

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Communists gained control 1945

79
Q

‘The Long Telegram’

A

1946

80
Q

NATO formed

A

1949

81
Q

US reveals atomic bomb

A

1945

82
Q

Polish army officers killed in the Katyn Forest Massacre

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22,000

83
Q

Katyn Forest Massacre

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April-May 1940

84
Q

Roosevelt’s death

A

April 1945

85
Q

Marshall Plan announced

A

June 1947

86
Q

Total tons of cargo carried into Berlin during the airlift

A

2.3 million

87
Q

Change in tonnes of supplies per day during the airlift

A

Initially: 5,000
By the end: 8,000

88
Q

Civilian deaths in the war

A

~12 million, 1/8 of pop alive before the war dead by 1945

89
Q

Towns and cities destroyed in the war

A

1700

90
Q

Villages destroyed in the war

A

70,000

91
Q

Babi Yar massacre

A

Sept 1941

92
Q

How many Jews were shot at Babi Yar?

A

34,000

93
Q

Military personnel executed for treason during the war

A

170,000

94
Q

Tartar deportation

A

May 1944, 24,000 to Uzbekistan

95
Q

Change in size of the Red Army over the course of WWII

A

1941: 4.8 million soldiers
+29.5 million over course of war

96
Q

Number of factories moved from Moscow

A

500

97
Q

Number of trains used to transport factories

A

20,000

98
Q

American trucks supplied through the Lend-Lease scheme

A

300,000

99
Q

Deaths during Siege of Leningrad

A

800,000 civilians, 90% of civilian population

100
Q

Deaths in Battle of Stalingrad

A

800,000
Same amount of British and US troops that died during the whole war

101
Q

Industry 1945

A

Reduced by 66%

102
Q

How many people were homeless in 1945?

A

25 million

103
Q

Percentage of government investment that went to heavy industry during the fourth 5YP

A

88%

104
Q

DELETE

A

DELETE

105
Q

The rouble in 1947

A

Had devalued by approx 90%

106
Q

Grain production 1952

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Back to pre-war levels
95 –> 92 (million tons) 1940-53

AQA A Level History Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-1953 (2N) (51 decks)

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