USSR and Germany

Question 1

By what year had cooperation between the USSR and Germany been established?

Answer 1

1922

Question 2

What year was the Treaty of Rapallo?

Answer 2

1922

Question 3

What treaty consolidated the 1922 Treaty of Rapallo?

Answer 3

Treaty of Berlin 1926

Question 4

What year was the Treaty of Berlin?

Answer 4

1926

Question 5

When was the most intensive period of Soviet Military collaboration with Germany?

Answer 5

1929-1932

Question 6

How did the Soviet Union benefit from their relations with Germany>

Answer 6

they benefitted from German technical expertise for the modernisation of industry and armaments production

Question 7

How did Russis benefit from German technical expertise?

Answer 7

from the modernisation of industry and armaments production

Question 8

Why did Stalin make agreements with German armament manufacturer’s?

Answer 8

In order to acquire modern weapons

Question 9

IN what year did Germany and Russia negotiate the continuation of the Berlin treaty?

Answer 9

1931

Question 10

While in 1931 Russia and Germany negotiated the continuation of the Berlin treaty of 1926, what was a problem?

Answer 10

their relationship began to come under strain

Question 11

After a Comitern Congress in what year did Stalin attack democratic, socialist movements naming them ‘socialist facists’

Answer 11

1928

Question 12

What did Stalin name socialist movements in the 1928 Comintern Congress?

Answer 12

socialist fascists

Question 13

What was the name of the German Army?

Answer 13

Reichswehr

Question 14

How did Germany benefit from relations with Russia, and its vastness?

Answer 14

the Reichswehr (German Army) were able to carry through military developments that were forbidden under the Versailles Treaty

Question 15

Where were 4 of the locations the Reichswehr (German Army) were able to carry out military developments in Russia which was forbidden by the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 15

• the Junkers aircraft factory in Fili near Moscow.
• a training school for German pilots at Lipetsk in Ukraine
• a facility for practising tank warfare in Kazan
• facility in Samara for developing poison gas weapons

Question 16

Where was the Junkers Aircraft factory where the Reichswehr (German Army) were able to carry out military developments in Russia which was forbidden by the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 16

in fili near Moscow

Question 17

Where was the training school for German polite where the Reichswehr (German Army) were able to carry out military developments in Russia which was forbidden by the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 17

in Lipetsk in Ukraine

Question 18

Where was the facility for practising tank warfare where the Reichswehr (German Army) were able to carry out military developments in Russia which was forbidden by the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 18

Kazan

Question 19

Where was the facility for development poison gas weapons where the Reichswehr (German Army) were able to carry out military developments in Russia which was forbidden by the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 19

Samara

Question 20

When did Soviet-German trade slow significantly?

Answer 20

early 1930’s

Question 21

Why was it inevitable that Soviet-German relations would sour in 1932?

Answer 21

as the Nazi party gained mass electoral support

Question 22

Why was Stalin slow to react to the rise of Hitler?

Answer 22

as he hoped it would accelerate the collapse of Capitalism

Question 23

Why was the Rapallo period of cooperation between Germany put to one side in 1933 and 1934?

Answer 23

as Stalin showed interest in collective security and improved relations with the Western democracies, though keeping open a possible return to cooperation with Germany

Question 24

It has been often suggested that Stalin pursued a ‘zig zag’ policy, what is meant by this?

Answer 24

that he frequently changed directions according to circumstances

Question 25

An alternative view to the ‘zig zag’ policy is that Stain has a single-minded obsession with security, what is meant by this?

Answer 25

his tactics were unpredictable but the overall strategic objective was always th same

Question 26

Which Soviet historian claimed that there was a consistent ‘Stalin Doctrine’ in the 1930’s, wanting a war between Germany and the capitalist West that would weaken both sides while the USSR remained neutral?

Answer 26

Alexandr Nekrich

Question 27

Who were the German and Russia ministers who signed the nazi-soviet Pact of august 1939?

Answer 27

Ribbentrop and Molotov

Question 28

When was the Nazi Soviet Pact?

Answer 28

22nd August 1939

Question 29

What was the significance of the Nazi Soviet Pact of 22nd August 1939?

Answer 29

it was a diplomatic revolution agreed by bitter ideological enemies

Question 30

What did the Nazi-Soviet pact of 22nd August 1939 provide Germany on favourable terms?

Answer 30

access to vital raw materials

Question 31

Where did the Nazi Soviet Pact of 22nd August 1939 give Stalin territorial gains?

Answer 31

in eastern Poland and the Baltic States

Question 32

How is it evident in two ways that Stallion remained open to a possibility of a military alliance with the West?

Answer 32

1) He allowed Litinov to continue negotiations with the Western democracies and
2) Soviet propaganda against Nazism continued

Question 33

What was a clear sign of Stalin’s probable intentioins to sign a peace pact with the Nazi’s?

Answer 33

the removal of Litinov as the pro-West foreign commissar in replacement of the hard-line Molotov

Question 34

Why was it significant that the Nazi-Soviet pact allowed Russia major territorial gains in Poland?

Answer 34

as 20 years earlier the Red Army had been halted on the Vistula in the first Russio-Polish War

Question 35

What 4 places was Stalin able to seize control of once Hitler invaded the Wets in 1940?

Answer 35

the Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Question 36

What were 2 of Stalin’s miscalculations about the Nazi-Soviet Pact of the 22nd August 1939?

Answer 36

1) The German war machine had not weakened and with the fall of France in 1940, he controlled Western Europe
2) He trusted Hitler,

Question 37

When did Soviet forces invade Finland in the “winter war”?

Answer 37

November 1939-40

Question 38

What was the result of the Winter War 1939-40?

Answer 38

it went bad for the USSR despite having larger forces, due to purges in the Red Army in may-june 1937

Question 39

What would the USSR provide Germany in 1940?

Answer 39

trainloads of foodstuffs, raw materials and payments in gold

Question 40

Allied intelligence picked up evidence that Hitler was planning to invade Russia as early as when?

Answer 40

October 1941

Question 41

When did Hitler invade Russia?

Answer 41

22nd June 1941

Question 42

How was Stalin’s realtionship with Hitler inconsistent?

Answer 42

it went from cooperation, to violent ideological hostility to a non-aggression pact, to total war