Foreign Policy 1917-1929 Flashcards
What was Comintern?
A body set up in March 1919 to organise world revolution
When was the Russo-Polish war?
1920
What did the Red Army espect when they marched into Poland in April 1920?
Polish workers to rise in rebellion against their own government
What did the Poles see the 1920 invasion as and what happened as a result?
Traditional Russian aggression, and so drove the Red Army back accross the border
What did the failure of the invasion of Poland in 1920 do for the Bolsheviks?
forced Lenin and the Bolsheviks to rethink the whole question of international revolution
Why did Lenin believe that the time was not right for world revolution?
The Polish reverse, the foreign interventions in the civil war and the failed communist revolutions in Germany and Hungary
What was Lenin’s main aim of foreign policy?
Not to expand but to avoid conflict
When was the Treay of Rapallo ?
April 1922
What were the main terms of the Treaty of Rapallo? (2)
- Russia would provide German forces with military training grounds and resources
- Russia granted trading rights
Contries that intervened in the civil war? (9)
- Britain
- France
- Japan
- USA
- Italy
- Finland
- Lithuania
- Poland
- Romania
Where were the main areas where foreign countries invaded during the civil war? (5)
- Black Sea
- Murmansk
- Vladivostok
- Siberia
- Caspian Sea
Why did the foreign intervention in the civil war fail? (3)
- lack of coordination and no working together
- interventions half hearted
- limited objectives
Why did foreign countries intervene during the civil war? (4)
- resentment at Russia withdrawal from WW1
- recover supplies
- fear of Bolshevism
- anger at refusal to pay debts
When was the Treaty of Berlin?
1926
What was the Treaty of Berlin?
a further soviet-german agreement which built upon Rapallo
