To Go Over- Part 3

Question 1

Why did ra perform so badly 1941- german tatcical capability

Answer 1

Blitzkrief swept all before across poland 1939 and balkans spring 1941
Intention was to rpeeat tacticals sucessful in fr
German air power- 3500 aircrafts in lufwaffe- most powerful and experiences air force, no focus on soviet in jun 1941
Pilots experienced, guernica

Question 2

Ger strategy why ra badly 1941

Answer 2

German military intelligence overemphasised effect of reorganised follow ra performance in winter war finland 1940
Brandenburgers- first germans across- pparachute into territory or on board goods trains- in poland wore civilian clothes, siezed key strategic points
3key points go south go central go north- encircle
War of inhillation- kill destory pillage- creatin fear

Question 3

Ra perform so badly 1941- soviet command and communication

Answer 3

Command, control centers artierial roads to boarder were targeted and destroyed lyfwaffe- max confusion
Lack of radio communication meant culdnt cooperate- landlines which meant could be cut as no commercial ones- stalin couldnt trust radio
Ger forces able to crack soviet communications across 1800km front, paralyse communications between 20km wide zone helf by nkvd- unable communicate politburo, resort flag signals
Stalin made decisions despite little military experoiecne
Panzer groups sped past- 100km to east- leaving infantry and anti tank guns to shoot up lightly equped soviet forces

Question 4

Operation barbarossa

Answer 4

3 mill men
3 army groups
North- baltic states to leningrad
Centre to moscow
South to ukriane and caucuses

Question 5

Soviet setbacks- phase 1

Answer 5

Early sept- 4 mill russiian tropps killed wounded or capitured and 180,000 ger
Since pruges set back signif
600,000 surrender
Soveit forces rapidly expelled from baltic states and leningrad under siege
1942 spring offensive
Av soldier only basic traing 141
227 not a single step back- penal battalions- july 1942
Minsk fall quickly
Moscow attempt push back overcome
Communicatiosn weak no radio

Question 6

Deaths leningrad

Answer 6

Leningrad high deaths- 4000/day in jan, comp 52,000whole dec- yet claimed 600 died in siege

1/3 pop died

Question 7

Stalingrad

Answer 7

Aug 1942- feb 1943
Part of operation blue
Mission led by zhukov
Poor ger moral, soviet pincher offensive, cut off ger troops as hitler ordered to stay- 250,000 cut off
Weather conditions worsened- soveits took airfields
Wounded men left to die, clothes with fleas
After soviet forces came upon pauius (ger) hq jan 1943 90,000 soldiers into captivity, 6,000 return decade later

Question 8

Moscow

Answer 8

Sep 1942- jan 1942
Zhukov defends army suffered 20x ger caulties but wehtmacht could advance no further
59 frein troops diverted from east
Ger retreat but poor soveit offensive led to 500,000 deaths and 20,000 ger
Operation typhoon meant hitler scaled down plan for 1942 summer offenseive

Question 9

Soviet setbacks phase 2

Answer 9

1942 summer to summer 1943
Moscow higher deaths- half mill to ger 20,000 huigh attritional rate
Ger get donbass- cut off cuacuases on soviets
Babi yah 30,000 jews killed
Felll of rostov- on don strategic loss- staliin refused to allow an evacuation of stalingrad- cuased 1 million ra high civilian deaths

Question 10

Stage 2 soveit sucess

Answer 10

Stalingrad
Leningrad
Kursk
Moscow
Moved industrial areas

Question 11

Soviet sucess stage 3

Answer 11

Leningrad ultiately victorious- helfd by citizens
Krusk only 5 tnks lost- use of dummy tanks
Plans more effective and better leadership zhukov
Massive iffensive pushed dec 1943- gained latvia lithuania belarus bulgaria
Beat allies to ebrlin\

Question 12

Stalin role as figurehead pro

Answer 12

Comrades citizens brothers and sisters- stalin speech motiae many 3 july 141
First speech since offensive
Simonev recallled ‘my firends’ moves us t tears
Spoke of patriotci war of all people
Stayed in moscow- symbolic on a film recorded - §

Question 13

Stalin wartime ruthelesness con

Answer 13

Battle stalingrad 135,000 shot
270 and 227

Question 14

Victory resilience ra

Answer 14

3% male consciprt born 1923 survive until 1945
Figes soviet greatest weapon
Ra troppo transfer from eastern were hardned isberian warroers
Sense of patriotism from ferocious resistance
Vas rosuces in mandpower allowed suicidal sacrifices exhaust ger
270 and 227
War of tatition
Moscow and stalingrad

Question 15

Victory partisan activities

Answer 15

Stalin demanded create partisan guerilla units in ger occupied territory
1941 members of partisans and komosomol help patrisans
Mid 1942 each partisan group has nkvd cell attached
Tanya- propaganda tool- teenage gril patrisna tortuered and interrogated by ger= last words stalin is with us

Question 16

victory allied support

Answer 16

1941 fdr land lease act- import tanks and jeaps- 1/3 soviet vehicles from abroad
Land lease 5% ussr gdp
Spam food us
Blestchley park decoded naxi code
1945 d day new front
1943 mass bombings raf and usad- weakend industrial heartland ger

Question 17

Industrial probelms post war

Answer 17

Nove- years- odly shapeless peirod- econ policy ideas rfrozen into their pre war moulds
Factories left in ruins, mines floods, shousands km of track and rolling stofk destoryed
70% insudtrial production left in western occupied region
145-46- mining halved, electircity 52% capcity, steel 45% pre war level

Question 18

Losses from war

Answer 18

Mass migration 12 million 1944-45 to west
Casulties over 29 million- 84% died wiunded or capitured
Total deaths around 17 milll
1700 towns 7000 villages decimated- 25 mill homelss,

Question 19

Agri problems posrt war

Answer 19

Nearly 40% jikjihoz stopped functioning
Many peasants return privatised famrs
Heavy loss life
Shortage 137000 traactors
Food production 1940. 60% level
Grain procurement 70%- lead to famine

Question 20

Main aims policies for industry

Answer 20

4th 5y plan 1946-50
85% investment devoted to ehavy industries and cpautal goods- consumer goods take back seat
33% plan target ukraine
Exceed pre war levels
Increas elabour output- leningrad 30h/month ontop 8 hour days, 2 mill prisoner of wars

Question 21

Main aims agri

Answer 21

Kolkohoz reformed
Cenyral conttol
1948 stalin plan for the trandformation of nature= plants in unsuitible paces
Stalins writining not allowd challngng - ie economic problems of socialism in ussr 1952- more jsutification of soviet policu than attampt to identify reofmr or innovation in countryside

Question 22

Sucess agri

Answer 22

Provate plots kept affloat
Some recovery but still beow 1940-52- 95.6 to 92.2

Question 23

Sucess agri

Answer 23

Provate plots kept affloat
Some recovery but still beow 1940-52- 95.6 to 92.2

Question 24

Setbacks and failures industry

Answer 24

Bottlenecks
Few resources consumer goods
Lt growth trends slower western europe
Incressingly produce new consumer gods for bop- tv vaccum cleaners yet exported not sold domestically

Question 25

Setbacks and failures agri

Answer 25

Crop rotation- unsituiale grasses enforced Ideas of lysenko unsuitable yet encouraged Tax increse eg fruit tax Villages left no electircity or materials to rebuild post war Phasing out rationing led to tgreat pressur eto incrrease output Deval of rouble= dec 1947- gods cheaper cities but wipe out peasants savings

Question 26

4th 5y plan

Answer 26

1946-50 Most investment in heavy industry Industrial output increased 80% 45-50 Oikl coal steel electicity rose By 1950 some factories suprlass pre war levels Discpiline at work Few consumer goods- limited impact living standards, deval rouble 1947 made worse as destroyed svaings Fastest growing econ in owordl

Question 27

Terror return political control

Answer 27

Maintain role as vozhd Stalins attempt limit power of his rivals Almsot all politburom members live in fear Played rivals agianst each oher- uutilise a ivide and rule approach- pre war strategy Cut leningrad party in size

Question 28

Why did terror return post gpw

Answer 28

Character stalin Political control Strength nkvd- beria Cold war context Fear tool of control

Question 29

Censorship to tighten conrtol post gpw

Answer 29

Holywood banned Function of writers union was educatie on bol rev- 1948 turn on soviet composer not fullyl reflect glovrious victory- eateing out of the hands of the eneemy Destroy intelligensia Chemsists arrested but physicians more safe due to nuclear project Einstein left

Question 30

Mingrelian case

Answer 30

Accused party offials in 1951 in georgeia of collaborate western powers Officers mostly mingrelin ethnic gorups georgeia- beria too- aim to limit his power Georgians also wanted indepdnence

Question 31

Doctors plot

Answer 31

Blame jewish doctors for killing zdanov as part of us zionist polit Israel formed 1948 Remove jewish anti fascist group Report made in 1948 yet not used until 1952 Several thousand jews disappear to gulags Anti jewish press

Question 32

Leningrad affari

Answer 32

Escalated from attacks on vozneghi to major purge of leading officials Executed oct 1950 2000 officials form city dismissed from posts, exiled and replaced pro stalin groups

Question 33

Remove opp-stalin terror post gpw

Answer 33

Remobe general zkukhov and other high officers- odesa to urals- potentially celebrated war hero Mingrelian case- anti berial All returned pow arrested or interrogate-d open to ideas, paanoia Opp oliltburo- pit against each other, imrpison kalinin and molotov wide as jewish Prueg leningrad party

Question 34

Terror tighten control

Answer 34

Increased counter rev activity Seperate nkvd into domestic and foiregn with beria head- mgb abroad, mvp domestic Increased use gulags- 2.5 mill, 12 mill wartime survivors passed through lab camps 1/5 army came back- rest lab camps- fear been better

Question 35

Gulag labour in war

Answer 35

Produce 15% of all soveit amunition Could be worked until died- 1942 death rate 25% But could be replenished by pow and collaborators with enemy or nationalist

Question 36

Shift leadership during war

Answer 36

Away from stalin to military council dominated by political officers, to general staff which took the lead in planning operations and kept party leadership informed

Question 37

Poland

Answer 37

Forcibly expelled 5 milll ger living there Move border to river oder not in yalta agreement

Question 38

Ussr n 1947

Answer 38

Soveits demand massive reparations of ger Americans refuse so r refuse accept byrnes open door migration policu Poland czechoslovakia hungary applied world bank for loan yet refused

Question 39

1944 china

Answer 39

Kmt nat defeated by jpn high inflation gov corruption undermining chiang leadership Mao deveops idea repleace chiang as one party dictatiorship with coalition gov nc ccp Chiang refuse

Question 40

1945 china

Answer 40

Yalta agreed ussr declare war jpn 3 months after surrender ger- assisting americans Ussr not know atoomic bombs, so started invading 1manchurian when us droppped bomb and jpn surrender Soveit war on japn mao support ussr assuming that would not accept kmt victory- yet did with chiang rrecognised with sino soveit treaty, joint control chinese eastern rsilwr

Question 41

1947 china

Answer 41

Marshall misson failed, leading to re eruption of civil war Sec state us aim nat gov with ccp minority

Question 42

1947 china

Answer 42

Marshall misson failed, leading to re eruption of civil war Sec state us aim nat gov with ccp minority

Question 43

1948 china

Answer 43

Mao ordered offensives and advances into central china- stalin backed Kovalev commisar for transport- repair bridges and railways- advance ccp troops and improve communications between ussr and mao Limited us assistance meant chiang defeated Nato pact

Question 44

1950 china

Answer 44

Mao visit moscow to celebrate stalin 70th birthday- sino soviet pact negoitioan Mao a big politcal asset to deal with imepralist counrties in the world Pact agreed Coop if attacked usa jpn, peace tals w japan, consult each other on matters mutually improtant Ussr suppied with cheap tungsten and tin for 10y Stalin provides military support p[rc inc estbalishment air defence installations in coastal areas nr taiwan

Question 45

1947 cold war

Answer 45

Cominform formed Rakosi hungary Marshall plan Truman doctrine

Question 46

West mark

Answer 46

Introduced into occupation zones june 1948 Along with bizenia united british and america Soveit repsonded iwth berlin blockade- blockimg off electricity and orad, rail base across to west berlin Airlift from allies

Question 47

Salami tactics in czechoslovakia

Answer 47

Comm came to power coup feb 1948 Pruge oppositionists from police to provoke resignition of opposition parties from gov Initimidate president benes to concede to demand for comm dictted gov

Question 48

Cominform policies imposed

Answer 48

Collectivisation Mass arrests kulaks Heroes labour promoted versions of stakhanovites Portraits stalin displayed everywhere Every school child learn russian, language requirement job where higher education called for- russification

Question 49

Korean war

Answer 49

Ra nk 1945 Us propose divide on 38th parallel but kim il sung want unite under comm Parties created both sites and lead Soveits withdraw 1948 but left arms delievriies- increasing wepoans by 1950 which allowed north to dominate in sourth But west with us british push back quickly

Question 50

Soviet objectives for far east

Answer 50

Security- manchuria Spread ideology Econ0 tungsten armaments Comerical interests- port arthur Nk backup if china failed

Question 51

Comintern 1921-34

Answer 51

1921 and 1923 support uprisings in ger Origionally stalin comitted to socialism in one country vs trostlky permenat rev- cominetern not stalin priority 1924-29 main focus stability and consoldating power Zinoviev president 1919-28 post united opposition= salin apoint molootov 1928- sixth congress- stalin social fascists should be attacjed and therefore: Used as tool of stalin in top down control- appt loyal followers to comintern. Discipline imposed on comm parties from ger italy-soviet agents sent abroad to infltrate parties report back to moscow 1929 stalin in total control to push trhough stalin rev at home and aborad Later used with salami tactics

Question 52

Soviet policies ger- how far soviet rehab fp 1921- 34

Answer 52

Rapallo treaty 1922- reestablish diplomatic ties, financial ties, promise econ ccop,ended isolation Germany offered train red army in tank warfare and military-cant on own as tov Aided r industrailise 1932 47% imports germany 1925 locarno treaty- better relations ger, gb, fr- worried r, left alone Treaty of berlin 1926 confirmed rapallo, neutrality of either attack another popwoer, military and econ ties, credit from ger banks until 1929

Question 53

1918-24 r completely isolated in europe

Answer 53

Germany Britain/allies Russias image

Question 54

Isolated r ger no

Answer 54

Rapallo 1922 Both outcasts post war Bl

Question 55

Isolated r ger

Answer 55

Anger from popular fronts such as spartacists upsiing Bl and early exit outcast from west

Question 56

Isolated r br y

Answer 56

Zinoviev letter Tuc sent money and returned Not recoginsed 1918/19 Not invted or rep 1919/20 peace conferences

Question 57

Isolated brtan no

Answer 57

1921 trade deal and recognised Invited to genoa conference 1922 Visited by tuc deputies in 1920 and 24 Tom mann british comm party in 1920

Question 58

Cominform r isolated no

Answer 58

Popular fronts showed how connected 1919 spartacists g ger and hungarian republc

Question 59

Cominofrm and image isolated r

Answer 59

Alienated further R defeated in rp war Kill romanovsm cancell debt repaymenet sand plegde world rev