1______: USSR joins league of nations following all the peace treaties
1934
2_______ widespread famines, _______ dead
1932-33, 10 million
3_______: _______ - Germany agrees to respect Russia’s western borders, Great Britain promises to defend Belgium and France (not Poland or Czechoslovakia.)
1925, Locarno treaties
4_______: _______ - Germany and USSR pledge neutrality in case of third-party attack, reaffirmed German-Soviet treaty of Rapallo
24 April 1926, Treaty of Berlin
5_______: _______ - Germany invades USSR
June 22nd 1941, Operation Barbarossa
6_______: _______ - Germany USSR alliance allowing Germany to secretly build armaments in Russia
1922, Rapallo treaty
7_______: _______ signed by Germany France and the US to outlaw war and maintain peace
1928, Kellogg-Briand Pact
8_______: _______(Ribbentrop-Molotov pact) USSR signs alliance with Germany, they invade Poland and divide it between themselves, USSR also gains territory in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania
1939, Nazi-Soviet Pact
9_______: Britain formally recognises USSR
1 February 1924
10_______: Bukharin replaced by Zinoviev as leader of comintern
1926
11_______: Communist Party unpopular due to industrialisation and famine
1933
12_______: Dekulakization
December 1929
13_______: Germany joins league of nations, moves closer to UK and France and away from USSR
1926
14_______: Germany officially recognises USSR
1922
15_______: huge wave of UK citizens join communism and fascism looking for answers to wall street crash
1929
16_______: Invasion of Manchuria, Japan invades, league of nations does not react.
1931
17_______: Invasion of Poland by Germany and USSR
September 1939
18_______: Kirov is murdered
December 34 1934
19_______: Litvinov speech - calls for peace and for aid of league of nations if attack occurs
1932
20_______: Maxim Litvinov become people’s commissar for foreign affairs
1930
21_______: Molotov becomes leader of comintern
1929
22_______: Roosevelt officially recognises USSR after negotiations with Litvinov
November 1933
23_______: Russia builds its army and war materials
1930
24_______: Russian Alliances - USSR signs defensive alliances with France and Czechoslovakia
1935
25_______: Ryutin affair
1932
26_______: Soviet non-aggression pacts with Finland, Latvia, Estonia, France, Italy and Poland
1933-34
27_______: Soviet-Japanese neutrality pact, Russia and Japan would not fight directly, only allies, Stalin scrapped this pact in 1945
April 1941
28_______: Stalin makes left-turn opting for left wing rapid industrialization
1928
29_______: Stalin’s wife Nadezda shoots herself
November 1932
30_______: Start of collectivization
1928
31_______: Start of FYPs, overseen by Gosplan
October 1928
32_______: Start of second FYP
1933
33_______: Trade agreement with Germany and USSR
March 1934
34_______: USSR in same economic state as 1913
1929
35_______: Wall street crash and beginning of great depression
1929
36_______: Zinoviev Letter - UK breaks off relations with USSR after finding a forged letter suggesting comintern is staging a communist revolution in the UK.
1924
37________: Cancellation of Rapallo treaty, Hitler comes to power
1933
38________: Chiang Kai-Shek, leader of GNP massacred _______ Communists and workers in Shanghai
1927, 30-40,000
39________: China is at the brink of civil war
1924
40________: Kamenev, Zinoviev arrested put on trial
Jan 1935
41________: Russian-Finnish war, Finland ends up ceding land to USSR
1939
42________: Spanish Civil War - USSR sends troops to help anti-fascists while Germany and Italy counters
1936
43________: Stalin’s article dizzy with success. Collectivization a success
March 1930
44________: US stops worrying about Hitler as much with their own economic problems
1929
45Mutual cooperation between Germany and Russia means that by _______, ________% of Russian imports came from Germany.
1932, 47