NCEA External

Question 1

1861

Answer 1

Edict of Emancipation

Question 2

1894

Answer 2

Nicholas II becomes Tsar

Question 3

1904

Answer 3

Japanese forces destroyed Russian ships

Question 4

1905

Answer 4

Russo-Japanese War ends, Bloody Sunday, and the October Manifesto

Question 5

1906

Answer 5

Peter Stolypin appointed Prime Minister

Question 6

1914

Answer 6

WWI starts, St Petersburg changed to Petrograd

Question 7

1915

Answer 7

Tsar goes to front, leaves Tsarina Alexandra and Rasputin in charge

Question 8

1917

Answer 8

1.7 million dead, 8 million wounded, 2.5 million P.O.W.

Question 9

1917, 23 February

Answer 9

International Women’s Day protests

Question 10

1917, 25 February

Answer 10

Numbers rise to 250,000, forces told to shoot protestors

Question 11

1917, 27 February

Answer 11

Cossacks refuse to shoot, troops deserted from the front, Provisional Government set up by Kerensky

Question 12

1917, 1 March

Answer 12

Order Number One from Petrograd Soviets

Question 13

1917, 2 March

Answer 13

Tsar forced to abdicate

Question 14

1917, 24-25 October

Answer 14

The Bolshevik Revolution

Question 15

1918

Answer 15

Civil War starts

Question 16

1921

Answer 16

Civil War ends

Question 17

April Theses Slogans:

Answer 17

“All Power to the Soviets”

“Peace! Bread! Land!”

Question 18

Tsar Nicholas II said:

Answer 18

“I never wanted to be Tsar.”

Question 19

Father Gapon said:

Answer 19

“There is no longer any Tsar for us.”

Question 20

SPOUVE

Answer 20

Freedom of Speech, Political Prisoners Released, Unions, Vote for Women, Elections, Ohkrana abolished

Question 21

WUWV

Answer 21

Working Conditions, Unions, End of the War, Vote

Question 22

ODSAWU

Answer 22

Limit Ohkrana, Duma, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Worship, Unions

Question 23

Trotsky said:

Answer 23

“Paper freedom.”

Question 24

Peter Stolypin hung ________ revolutionaries

Answer 24

2,000

Question 25

During WW1, the Russian forces were known as the _______ _________ but only ___ soldiers had guns

Answer 25

Russian Steamroller, 1/3

Question 26

Provisional Government would not:

Answer 26

Fix economy, End WW1, or give peasants land + they arrested Bolshevik supporters