The USSR & Stalin

Question 1

When did Stalin authorise party purges?

Answer 1

1933 and 1935

Question 2

When were the army purges?

Answer 2

1936-1938

Question 3

When did comintern end?

Answer 3

1943

Question 4

What plans did Stalin share, to who and when?

Answer 4

Shared plans in 1945 to KPD leaders of unifying Germany and bringing it into the Soviet Sphere of influence

Question 5

When was the USSR looting in Germany?

Answer 5

1946

Question 6

When was Stalin’s speech and where?

Answer 6

February 1946 at Stalin Electoral District

Question 7

When was the Iran crisis?

Answer 7

1946

Question 8

When was the Turkey Incident?

Answer 8

1946

Question 9

When was the Socialist Unity Party created?

Answer 9

April 1946

Question 10

What happened and when with Britain withdrawing troops from Greece?

Answer 10

Britain wanted to withdraw their 40,000 troops but were stopped by US through Truman Doctrine in 1947

Question 11

When was cominform created?

Answer 11

1947

Question 12

What date were the Moscow Talks?

Answer 12

2nd August 1948

Question 13

When was GDR created?

Answer 13

1949

Question 14

When was comecon created?

Answer 14

1949

Question 15

What happened in the Army purges?

Answer 15

41,218 officers purged, 90% general + 80% colonels either killed or dismissed - eliminated USSR as serious military force

Question 16

What was looted by the USSR in Germany?

Answer 16

3m pairs of shoes, 60,000 pianos, 2m tons of grain, 20m L of alcohol, 2885 factories (dismantled and taken to USSR)

Question 17

What happened in the speech made by Stalin?

Answer 17

Discussed accomplishments of USSR under him, said war was the ‘inevitable result’ of the capitalist system and the Soviet social order was superior

Question 18

What happened in the Iran crisis?

Answer 18

Red Army withdrawal too slow so Iran called upon UN and US pressured USSR to leave

Question 19

What was the Turkey Incident?

Answer 19

Stalin demanded joint control over Dardanelles, Truman was advised to use force so Stalin backs down.

Question 20

What was comecon for?

Answer 20

To direct the national economies of the soviet union and e.Europe

Question 21

What happened during Socialist Unity Party being created?

Answer 21

Made to appeal to all Germans, merged SPD + KPD after 20,000 social democrats were interrogated and imprisoned - violence made West suspicious so asked SPD voters in Berlin on their views about the merge and 82% rejected it

Question 22

What happened at the Moscow Talks and who was it between?

Answer 22

Between Western ambassadors and Stalin, who demanded removal of new currency - talks failed so Stalin did blockade

Question 23

What did cominform do?

Answer 23

Coordinated activities of the European communist parties

Question 24

When did Hitler invade USSR and what was it called?

Answer 24

1941 - Operation Barbarossa