Initial Situation

Question 1

Bolshevik Revolution

Answer 1

1917

Clash of communism and capitalism and the rise of Bolshevism

Question 2

Russian civil war

Answer 2

1918-21

Question 3

U.K. General strike

Answer 3

1926

Fear of imminent communist revolution

Question 4

Stalin becomes communist leader

Answer 4

1929

Question 5

The Great Terror

Answer 5

1930s, particularly ‘33.

Many murdered, show trials, secretive, and collectivisation

Question 6

Spanish civil war

Answer 6

1936-9

Western governments do nothing to help the left wing government. Although many volunteer to fight.

Question 7

Russian actions following Nazi-Soviet pact

Answer 7

1939-41

Russians seize Poland and parts of the baltics.

Question 8

Katy’s Massacre

Answer 8

1940

4000 Polish officers killed, only discovered in 1943

Question 9

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 9

June 1941
End of Nazi-Soviet Pact leading to the wartime alliance between the Big Three. War of annihilation by Nazis against Russia.

Question 10

Tehran Conference

Answer 10

November - December 1943

Question 11

Red Army djnt support polish uprising in Warsaw.

Answer 11

August 1944

Question 12

Yalta conference

Answer 12

February 1945

Question 13

Potsdam conference

Answer 13

July - August 1945