Stalin Foreign Policy

Question 1

When was Molotov appointed as Foreign Minister?

Answer 1

May 3rd 1939

Question 2

Who was the Foreign Commissar from April 1918 - July 1930?

What did he believe?

Answer 2

Chicherin

Anti-British and pro-German. Agreed with Lenin on peaceful coexistence to achieve an ununited West.

Question 3

Who was the Foreign Commissar from July 1930-May 1939?

What did he believe?

Answer 3

Litvinov
Prevent all wars and build good relations via collective security
Pro British anti-German

Question 4

Name 5 factors of foreign policy for Russia

Answer 4

Security - fear of invasion
Economic Backwardness
Background of Policy makers
Attitudes of other countries - French and british reluctance to act against Hitler
Ideology-Marxism encouraged world revolution

Question 5

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Answer 5

TIMELINE

Question 6

When did the Soviet enter the league of nations?

Answer 6

September 1934

Question 7

What agreement was signed with Germany on March 1934?

Answer 7

Trade Agreement

Question 8

When did USA give Russia official recognition?

Answer 8

1933

Question 9

When were mutualistic assistance pacts signed between Russia , France and Czechoslovakia

Answer 9

May 1935

Question 10

Describe Stalin’s foreign policy in the 1930s

Answer 10

Complicated and Contradictory

Question 11

When was an American embassy set up in Moscow?

Answer 11

1933

Question 12

Name the advantage 2 the US when the embassy was set up in 1933

Answer 12

no longer had to rely on information from the Riga Watchers

Question 13

Describe how Litvinov was established as a commissar by 1930s

Answer 13

Long experience in the West with a British wife, and visited Washington in Nov 33

Question 14

Why did Russia and the US want to form good relations?

Answer 14

They shared a fear of Germany and Japan

Question 15

What did Stalin encourage in the COmintern from 1928

Answer 15

To back the popular fronts

Question 16

When was the non aggression pact signed with Poland?

Answer 16

Dec 1932

made into 10 year agreement in 1934

Question 17

Name the pact made between France and Russia and when

Answer 17

Franco-Soviet pact of mutual assistance

Negotiated in Dec 34, signed in May 35

Question 18

What serious event occurred in March 1936?

Why was this serious?

Answer 18

Hitler occupied the Rhineland

Hitler ignored Versailles terms and was met with passive repondants

Question 19

What did France propose in August 1936 in relation to Spain?

How did Russia respond?

Answer 19

non intervention

Agreed until Sept 1936 when he sent advisors troops/tanks/aircraft under Soviet command

Question 20

What were the effects of Russia intervened Spain?

Answer 20

It prevented Madrid falling and engaged the Italian and german troops however his actions rose the suspicion of the western governments

Question 21

How and why does Stalin’s approach change by 1938? Provide 4 reasons.

Answer 21

Received intelligence that Hitler planned to expand to Poland and Czechoslovakia in Nov 1937
In 1937 japan had launched war against China
France and British governments have proven to focus on appeasement rather than threats
March 1938 German forces invaded Austria and Anschluss imposed
Lack of invitation of the Munich conference in 1938 Sept

Question 22

What was the Anti-Comintern pact?

Who was it between? When?

Answer 22

Pact by Japan and Germany in Nov ‘36 -later Italy to take action against the comintern Nov’37

Question 23

When was the Munich Conference and who attended?

Answer 23

September 1938

Germany France Britain italy

Question 24

Describe the Japanese threat in 1930

Answer 24

Japanese occupy Manchuria 1931

Invade China 1937

Question 25

How long was the war between Japan and Russia ?

Answer 25

May-September 1939

Question 26

Name the figures of Russian involvement in the Russo-Japan War.

What/when was the decisive battle called and how many japanese troops were killed here?

Answer 26

Involving 100k + troops 1000 tanks and aircrafts
Decisive Battle = August 1939
Khalkhin Gol where 75% of Japanese troops were killed

Question 27

What was Stalin’s ultimate hope for foreign Policy?

Answer 27

Avoid a 2 front war with Germany and Japan, rather the war is between the fascists against democrats

Question 28

When was the Nazi-Soviet Pact?

Answer 28

23rd August 1939

Question 29

Name the advantages of the Nazi-Soviet Pact for both countries?

Answer 29

German- free hand to invade Poland
and gain raw materials
Russia= breathing space/ Protection from Hitler, extra territorial gains eg Baltic State and East Poland

Question 30

Name 2 miscalculations made by Stalin.

Answer 30

Rapid fall of France in 1940- he imagined it to be more drawn out
The nature of modern warfare and his trust of Hitler

Question 31

When was the Winter War and who was it between?
When was the peace agreed?
When did it resume?

Answer 31

1939-1940
Finland and Russia
March 10- 10% of Finland 2 USSR
Continuation War 1941-1944