The Great Patriotic War

Question 1

what was lend lease?

Answer 1

the scheme developed by Roosevelt to supply Britian and later Russia with American resources

Question 2

when did Russia begin recieving aid through the lend lease policy?

Answer 2

1941

Question 3

how much or Russia’s goods were provided through the policy of lend lease?

Answer 3

4%

Question 4

what did Russia get from the lend lease policy? (4)

Answer 4

1. 10% of tanks
2. 12% of airplanes
3. 66% of jeeps
4. 17% of daily calories of Russian soldiers from American food

Question 5

why was russia only fighting a war on one front?

Answer 5

allied support

Question 6

What did Stalin call WW2?

Answer 6

The Great Patriotic war

Question 7

Why did Stalin refer to WW2 as the Great Patriotic war?

Answer 7

to appeal to Russian nationalism in an attempt to keep morale high

Question 8

What did emphasis on the Great Patriotic war stress?

Answer 8

That the soldiers were fighting for Russia and not socialism

Question 9

What did Gosplan do to heavy industry during WW2?

Answer 9

organised the relocation of heavy industry from areas under threat from Nazis to safer areas in the East

Question 10

When did preparation of the war economy begin?

Answer 10

During the second five year plan in 1936

Question 11

By how much did armaments production increase during 1941 and 1944?

Answer 11

doubled

Question 12

How much of the countries income was spent on war by 1942?

Answer 12

50%

Question 13

How many factories were relocated?

Answer 13

1,523

Question 14

What did the reloaction of industry ensure?

Answer 14

Armaments, war production and industry could continue to produce essential goods for war

Question 15

Who did Stalin invite to Moscow?

Answer 15

Patriarch Sergius

Question 16

What did Patriarch Sergius do?

Answer 16

supported Stalin’s war effort and encouraged Russian people to do the same

Question 17

What were industrial workers required to do at night?

Answer 17

help in the fields during the harvest season

Question 18

What were woman on farms required to do?

Answer 18

Perform tasks previously performed by machinery and animals such as being yoked to ploughs

Question 19

In what way did the government show its toleration of religion?

Answer 19

1. anti religious propoganda seised

2. 414 churches were reopened

Question 20

How many churches was reopened during WW2?

Answer 20

414

Question 21

When was operation Barbarossa launched and what was it?

Answer 21

Launched on 22nd June 1941, it was the code name for the invasion of the Soviet union

Question 22

What did the Kremlin recieve a week before the launch of operation Barbarossa?

Answer 22

information from Richard Sorge, a comintern agent, which provided hard evidence that Germany was about to invade

Question 23

What was Stalin response to Sorge’s message?

Answer 23

He refused to believe it

Question 24

What were the results of Stalin refusing to believe the German invasion?

Answer 24

Inertia, his underlings could not take the initiative allowing German forces to advance easily into Soviet territory

Question 25

What happened during operation Barbarossa as a result of people hatred of Stalin and what was the German reaction to this?

Answer 25

Local soviet populations welcomed the German invaders, however, blinded by Nazi racial theory, the Germans treated the Slav peoples of the areas they over ran with savagery

Question 26

What policy did Stalin suggest in his radio broadcast of July 1941?

Answer 26

Scorched earth methods of warfare

Question 27

Why was the defeat at Stalingrad significant?

Answer 27

it proved Hitler’s armies were not invincible and gave real promise of final victory to the western allies

Question 28

Reasons for Soviet defeat of the Nazi’s?

Answer 28

1. German forces overstretched
2. Vastness of Russia
3. bad winters
4. Hitler’s strategic error
5. Stalin’s leadership
6. Lend Lease
7. Soviet ruthlessness