Stalin Foreign Policy Knowledge Quiz

______: USSR joins league of nations following all the peace treaties

_______ widespread famines, _______ dead

_______: _______ - Germany agrees to respect Russia’s western borders, Great Britain promises to defend Belgium and France (not Poland or Czechoslovakia.)

_______: _______ - Germany and USSR pledge neutrality in case of third-party attack, reaffirmed German-Soviet treaty of Rapallo

_______: _______ - Germany invades USSR

_______: _______ - Germany USSR alliance allowing Germany to secretly build armaments in Russia

_______: _______ signed by Germany France and the US to outlaw war and maintain peace

_______: _______(Ribbentrop-Molotov pact) USSR signs alliance with Germany, they invade Poland and divide it between themselves, USSR also gains territory in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania

_______: Britain formally recognises USSR

_______: Bukharin replaced by Zinoviev as leader of comintern

_______: Communist Party unpopular due to industrialisation and famine

_______: Dekulakization

_______: Germany joins league of nations, moves closer to UK and France and away from USSR

_______: Germany officially recognises USSR

_______: huge wave of UK citizens join communism and fascism looking for answers to wall street crash

_______: Invasion of Manchuria, Japan invades, league of nations does not react.

_______: Invasion of Poland by Germany and USSR

_______: Kirov is murdered

_______: Litvinov speech - calls for peace and for aid of league of nations if attack occurs

_______: Maxim Litvinov become people’s commissar for foreign affairs

_______: Molotov becomes leader of comintern

_______: Roosevelt officially recognises USSR after negotiations with Litvinov

_______: Russia builds its army and war materials

_______: Russian Alliances - USSR signs defensive alliances with France and Czechoslovakia

_______: Ryutin affair

_______: Soviet non-aggression pacts with Finland, Latvia, Estonia, France, Italy and Poland

_______: Soviet-Japanese neutrality pact, Russia and Japan would not fight directly, only allies, Stalin scrapped this pact in 1945

_______: Stalin makes left-turn opting for left wing rapid industrialization

_______: Stalin’s wife Nadezda shoots herself

_______: Start of collectivization

_______: Start of FYPs, overseen by Gosplan

_______: Start of second FYP

_______: Trade agreement with Germany and USSR

_______: USSR in same economic state as 1913

_______: Wall street crash and beginning of great depression

_______: Zinoviev Letter - UK breaks off relations with USSR after finding a forged letter suggesting comintern is staging a communist revolution in the UK.

________: Cancellation of Rapallo treaty, Hitler comes to power

________: Chiang Kai-Shek, leader of GNP massacred _______ Communists and workers in Shanghai

________: China is at the brink of civil war

________: Kamenev, Zinoviev arrested put on trial

________: Russian-Finnish war, Finland ends up ceding land to USSR

________: Spanish Civil War - USSR sends troops to help anti-fascists while Germany and Italy counters

________: Stalin’s article dizzy with success. Collectivization a success

________: US stops worrying about Hitler as much with their own economic problems

Mutual cooperation between Germany and Russia means that by _______, ________% of Russian imports came from Germany.