Unit 2 Quiz (Stalin)

Question 1

1928

Answer 1

Article 58 (Soviet Criminal Code)

Question 2

1937 (July)-1938 (Nov)

Answer 2

Great Terror
Originally against party members (people who wanted to overtake Lenin; traitors)
Became party family members (paranoia spread)
Spread to general public (What if you were friends w/someone who was shot?)
1.5million people→ Gulags→ > ½ shot.

Question 3

1941

Answer 3

First mass amnesty-released if enlisted in red army and fought in WWII

Question 4

1953

Answer 4

Second mass amnesty (under Beria)

Question 5

Secret Speech

Answer 5

Acknowledge Stalin killed in excess

Question 6

1939

Answer 6

Non-Agression Pact-Secret pact between Hitler and Stalin to divide up Europe

Question 7

1941 (June 22)

Answer 7

Operation Barbarossa-Hitler invades Soviet territories

Question 8

1941 (Winter)

Answer 8

(Winter)-Battle of Moscow-Turning point for USSR; 4.3 million Soviet casualties and Nazis had advanced >1000 miles into soviet Territory (June-December)

Question 9

1943 (Nov)

Answer 9

First meeting between Big Three to discuss how they’d handle everything
Decided they’d launch offensive attack Spring 1944

Question 10

1945 (Feb)

Answer 10

Yalta

Question 11

Yalta

Answer 11

Big Three meet again; Roosevelt and Churchill got guarantee of free elections for occupied territories of Soviets;
Idea of United Nations officially confirmed (not put into practice, just confirmed)

Question 12

1945 (July)

Answer 12

Potsdam

Question 13

Friendly States

Answer 13

Buffer Zone

Question 14

1946

Answer 14

“Election” speech with lots of anti-western thoughts→ peace=fragile between USSR & West

Question 15

1949 (April)

Answer 15

NATO created-12 Western countries that agreed if one was attacked, it was an attack on all of them

Question 16

1953 (March)

Answer 16

Stalin Died

Question 17

1928-1932

Answer 17

First 5 year plan-heavy industry (coal, iron, oil, electricity)

Question 18

1932-1937

Answer 18

Second 5 year plan-Heavy industry PLUS communication systems (railroads…) and chemical industry

Question 19

1938-1941

Answer 19

Third 5 year plan-weapons; cut short by war

Question 20

Gosplan

Answer 20

state agency responsible for coming up with five year plan

Question 21

Alexei Stakhanov

Answer 21

102 tons of coal in one day→ symbol of a good worker→ hardly worked after that because he toured (peers hated him “If I can do it, you can”)

Question 22

Stakhanovites

Answer 22

People who tried to be like Stakhanov

Question 23

Wreckers

Answer 23

slow workers (old, starving to death, didn’t know what they were doing) → executed or imprisoned

Question 24

1927-1931

Answer 24

Turkistan-Siberian Railroad-Went Siberia→ Kazakhstan (Siberia=grain, lumber, and coal; Kazakhstan=cotton)

Question 25

Dnieper Dam

Answer 25

Steel mill in Magnitogorsk (city created in Ural Mountains) → Dam created for hydroelectricity (first major dam like this)

Question 26

Belomor Canal

Answer 26

White Sea to the Baltic Sea-created shipping line

Question 27

1925 (Nov)

Answer 27

Decision made to use prison labor for construction projects

Question 28

1930-1933

Answer 28

Campaign against kuluks; >2 million kuluks exiled to Siberia; 10,000+ sentenced to gulags

Question 29

1953 (Dec)

Answer 29

Beria Executed

Question 30

NKVD

Answer 30

Soviet Secret Police

Question 31

Nikolai Yezhov

Answer 31

head of secret police during Great Terror; Stalin loved him (1/20 people were arrested)

Question 32

Beria

Answer 32

Head of secret police-initiated change in prison camps (said you should let great minds keep working)

Question 33

Show Trials

Answer 33

Stalin put groups of people he thought committed a crime on “trial” in a major city; made a huge production; Always group trial (made bigger statement); no lawyer, can’t defend yourself, etc. (Used right before excessive use of gulags

Question 34

Denunciation

Answer 34

denouncing fellow citizens for “crimes” and reporting them to gov’t

Question 35

Pavlik Morozov

Answer 35

Member of Pioneers; came from a not-wealthy family; dad=leader in city; Pavlik suspected his dad went anti-Soviet→ testified against Dad in court (no bad relationship w/Dad, Dad just suspected of being anti-Soviet) → Dad condemned; Dad’s friends killed Pavlik; Pavlik→ propaganda role model for kids (Selfless; put USSR before himself)

Question 36

Lubyanka

Answer 36

one of the most feared prisons (underground NKVD in Moscow) (mostly political prisoner)

Question 37

Urkas

Answer 37

(Hardened criminals) in charge of camp