USSR as a Superpower

Question 1

what is a superpower?

Answer 1

A country with world wide influence due to a dominant economy, culture, political system and military strength

Question 2

What was the first summit to involve Stalin and when was it?

Answer 2

Tehran Summit in November 1943

Question 3

When was the Tehran summit?

Answer 3

November 1943

Question 4

When did Churchil meet with Stalin in Moscow?

Answer 4

October 1944

Question 5

When did the ‘Big Three’ meet in Yalta?

Answer 5

February 1945

Question 6

When did the ‘Big Three’ meet in Potsdam?

Answer 6

July 1945

Question 7

Who were the ‘Big Three’?

Answer 7

FDR, Stalin and Churchil

Question 8

When and where did the ‘Big Three’ meet?

Answer 8

1. Tehran Nov. 1943
2. Yalta Feb 1945
3. Potsdam July 1945

Question 9

What reflected the superpower status of the USSR with regards to diplomacy?

Answer 9

The diplomacy of the grand alliance

Question 10

When was the UN formed?

Answer 10

October 1945

Question 11

What did the formation of the UN do for the USSR’s superpower status?

Answer 11

They were given a permanent seat on the security council

Question 12

What was the military strength of the USSR by May 1945?

Answer 12

7.5 milliom well equipt troops

Question 13

What did the Red Army do in countries they liberated?

Answer 13

Remained in control

Question 14

Who was in charge of the soviet atomic bomb project?

Answer 14

Beria

Question 15

When was the first successful test of an atomic bomb by the USSR?

Answer 15

August 1949

Question 16

What was the Truman doctrine ?

Answer 16

the policy of containing and rolling back communism

Question 17

When was the Marshall plan announced?

Answer 17

June 1947

Question 18

What was the Marshall plan?

Answer 18

The injection of aid to rebuild Europe

Question 19

What did the USSR and subsequent historian see Marshall aid as?

Answer 19

A political weapon designed to extend American influence

Question 20

What were soviet bloc countries pressured to do in terms of Marshall aid?

Answer 20

Reject it

Question 21

When did the Berlin blockade begin and when was it called off?

Answer 21

Begun in June 1948 and called off in May 1949

Question 22

How was the Berlin Blockade defeated?

Answer 22

By the Berlin Airlift

Question 23

When was NATO formed and what was its purpose?

Answer 23

1949 to defend the West against Soviet aggression and expansion

Question 24

Example of Soviet military dominance?

Answer 24

Their control over Eastern and Central Europe

Question 25

How did the USSR create a sphere of influence?

Answer 25

By using military pressure and political influence over local parties to encourage formation of governments that were friendly

Question 26

What was the purpose of buffer states?

Answer 26

Protest Russia from invasion

Question 27

What did Moscow do with exiled communists from eastern Europe?

Answer 27

trained them in Moscow and in the 1930s, sent them to infiltrate their governments

Question 28

What were communist parties instructed to do in democratic countries where they could not win?

Answer 28

Form coalitions with other left wing parties to gain a foothold within the government

Question 29

What did ‘salami tactics’ allow?

Answer 29

Pro soviet governments in Hungary by 1947 and Czechoslovakia by 1948

Question 30

Who was the leader of the communists who came to power in Yugoslavia ?

Answer 30

Josip Tito