Stalin - Industry 1941-1945

Question 1

What is ‘Scorched Earth’ policy?

Answer 1

Destroying the crops/land - anything useful to the enemy

Question 2

How many factories moved?

Answer 2

1500 to the East in 1941

Question 3

What was the issue with the German-occupied Soviet territory?

Answer 3

It contained 60% coal and iron and 50% of its steel and raiways

Question 4

Where was the industrial output of Russia by 1943?

Answer 4

Exceeding Germany

Question 5

What machinery did Russia produce?

Answer 5

• T-34 tank
• YAK -1 fighter aircraft
• Katysuka rocket launcher

Question 6

What is ‘Lend-Lease’?

Answer 6

A scheme from 1941-45 from USA, supplying 11 billion dollars of equipment to the USSR

Question 7

How much did the USA supply the USSR with?

Answer 7

94%

Question 8

What was being supplied?

Answer 8

Tanks, machine guns, vehicles and food
UK and USA supplied war essentials - lorries, tyers and telephone

Question 9

How many new industrial complexes were built?

Answer 9

3500

Question 10

Where were the new industrial complexes?

Answer 10

The Urals

Question 11

What year was there a drought?

Answer 11

1946

Question 12

How much farming was left operational?

Answer 12

1/3

Question 13

What levels were the 1945 harvest at?

Answer 13

less than 60% of pre-war