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what was the name of the radical party of russian marxists who seized power in october 1917?
The bolsheviks
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who was the leader of this party?
vladmir lenin
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what were the tactics that Stalin used to get control of East Europe called?
Salami tactics
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when was Yugoslavia liberated by The USSR?
1941
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when was romania liberated by ussr?
1944
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what were the names of the two sides in the russian civil war that followed the October revolution?
Reds = bolshevikds, Whites=anti Bolsheviks
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when was Hungary Liberated?
1945
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when was Finland liberated?
1940
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what American president proposed a set of 14 points for spreading capitalism across the world after ww1?
Woodrow wilson
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when was the Moscow peace treaty signed?
1940
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what was the name of the mass breakdown of the world economy beginning in 1929?
The great depression
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What was Josef stalins official position in the USSR from 1922?
General secretary of the communist party
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what was the main way that the UK provided wartime aid to the soviets?
Arctic conoys
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what name was given to the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941?
Operation Barbarossa
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what agreement allowed Hitler to invade Poland and thus begin the second world war?
Nazi-soviet Non aggression pact/ molotrov ribbentrop pact
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what event brought the US into WW2?
Japanese attack on pearl harbour
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when was the Japanese attack on pearl harbour?
december 1941
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what was Stalins main priority in the war, besides defeating Germany?
Creating a buffer zone of soviet friendly nations in Eastern Europe
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what were the names of the two competing governements in exile of Poland?
The london poles and Lublin poles
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what incident in August 1942 seemed to demonstrate that the British and Americans could not open a second front?
The failed Dieppe raid
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where and when did Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt meet to discuss the war effort in person for the first time?
Tehran conference November 1943
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what term was given to the opening of a second front in France by the Americans and Britain?
D day
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when was D Day?
6 of June 1944
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what agreements were made at the Tehran conference?
Polands borders would be shifted to the west to the oder nesse line
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who was the Czech President who willingly agreed to form a pro soviet postwar government?
Edward Benes
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who seized power in Romania in 1944 in order to negotiate an armistice with the USSR?
King micheal of Romania
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what was the name of the Hungarian fascist leader who led hungary in 1944-45 and ordered stubbonr resistance to the soviets?
Ferenc Szalsi = led the arrow cross
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which country experienced a spontaneous communist takeover and then welcomed the red army?
Bulgaria
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what concessions did Finland make to the USSR when it abandoned its alliance with Germany in 1944?
Gave up territory and adopted a pro soviet foreign policy
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what atrocitiy was committed in Poland by soviets in 1940?
Katyn Forest Massacre
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when was the Kaytn forest massacre discovered?
1943
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What attempt to restore independence to poland before the red army could take control happened in August 1944?
The warsaw rising
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who became the communist but independent leader of Yugoslavia after communist partisans liberated the country without soviet help?
Josef Tito
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in what country did the Yalta conference take place?
USSR modern day ukraine
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what did the big 3 agree about the future of Germany?
It would be divided into 4 zones of occupation
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why did Churchill and Roosevelt still need to keep stalin placated at yalta?
The red army was needed to defeat Germany
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where would the Polish border be moved westward to?
The oder-Neisse line
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what did Stalin agree would happen in the Eastern European nations that he had liberated?
Free elections
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who would form the government of Poland?
A coalition between the London and the Lublin poles
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what value of reparations was agreed Germany would pay to the USSR?
$20 billion
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what iternational body did the big 3 agree to found at the Yalta conference?
The united nations
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who replaced Roosevelt after his death in 1945?
Hary Truman
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why were so few new agreements made at potsdam?
There was no longer a common enemy to unite the west
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why had Stalin previously been distrustful of the western powers?
Because of their intervention in the Russian civil war supporting the anti bolsheviks
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what were the Soviet satellites?
Eastern European countries that were liberated by the Red army and were in the soviet sphere of influence
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how many people had Stalin killed in his purges?
700,000 to 1,200,000
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when did Stalins great terror start?
1936
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What was Stalins great terror?
A brutal political campaign led by stalin to eliminate dissenting members of the communist party and anyone else he considered a threat
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where were the survivors of Stalins purges sent?
They were sent to forced labour camps known as Gulags
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what were stalins show trials?
They were politically motivated trials, where Stalins government accused and convicted individuals of various crimes, often without evidence or fair legal proceedings
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what were Stalins show trials used for?
To eliminate perceived political opponents and consolidate Stalins power
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what did Truman view the USA as?
The defender of liberties
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who was the prime minister of Britain from 1945 after Churchill?
Clement atlee
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why did the Tehran conference change Churchills view of Stalin?
Stalin promised to shoot 50,000 German officers after the surrender as a joke
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why did Stalin especially want Poland?
It was the most important country for his buffer zone because it was directly between USSR and Germany
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who was Josef Tito?
Communist dictator who ruled Yugoslavia and liberated it in 1944
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what country moved into the Yugoslav sphere?
Albania
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who led the Communist Partisans in Yugoslavia?
Josef tito
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when did Finland leave the axis powers?
1944
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how did the Soviets benefit from liberating Finland?
Finland supplied them with much needed resources such as equipment, railroads and goods
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when did Finland leave the axis powers?
1944
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When was the treaty of Moscow signed and accepted by Finland?
1940
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what Eastern European country was an ally of Germany and had been involved in operation barbarossa?
Hungary
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who was Ferenc Szalasi?
The leader of the hungarian facist party, installed as prime minister by the Germans in 1944
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what party was banned after the liberation of Czechoslovakia?
The Czeck Agrarian party
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when was the treaty of Friendship signed?
Dec 1943
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when was the warsaw rising?
1944
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why was Benes willing to sign a treaty with Stalin?
He mistrusted the west after the munich agreement allowed the German Annexation of Sudetenland and was prepared to go along with Stalin for security
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what attempt to restore independence to Poland before the Red army could take control happened?
The Warsaw rising
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when was the Russian civil war?
1918 -1921
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when was the Russian-polish war?
1820
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what were the outcomes of the Polish russian war?
Poland isolates Russia geographically and Russia wants to reclaim it
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when was the Nazi-Soviet pact?
1939
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when was operation barbarossa?
1941
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when was the Tehran conference?
November 1943
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when was the Yalta conference?
Feb 1945
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when was the Potsdam Conference?
July 1945
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what leaders attended the Potsdam Conference ?
Truman, Churchill, stalin
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when and where did USA drop the first atomic bomb?
Hiroshima 1945 japan
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what was the second atomic bomb the US dropped in 1945?
Nagasaki
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