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1.6 Russian Foreign Policy
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- 1What did Lenin hope after 1917?Communist revolutions would break out elsewhere in Europe
- 2What did he set up in 1918 to give orders and money to communist parties?Communist International
(Comintern) - 3Why did Britain, France and US distrust USSR?Lenin had pulled out of the war and made peace with Germany
- 4What did Lenin make in 1922? With who?Treaty of Rapallo
Other "outcast" nation; Germany - 5What did this mean?Germany would train their army in Russia and build arms factories
- 6What grew when the Great Depression began in 1929?Communist parties in the West
- 7What did this convince Stalin of?Marx' prediction of capitalism dying was true
- 8What did Stalin order Communist Parties through Comintern?Not to co-operate with or prop-up democratic parties
- 9How did this affect Hitler?It helped him gain power
- 10Why did Stalin change his foreign policy?He realised the fascist threat
- 11How did he end Soviet isolation?Joining the League of Nations in 1934
- 12Who did Stalin seek alliances with?Capitalist governments
- 13What did Hitler suggest in 1939?A non-aggression pact with the USSR
- 14Where did the secret clauses in it allow Stalin to invade?Poland, Baltic states and Finland
- 15When did Hitler eventually invade Russia?June 1941
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- Leaving Cert History (Dictatorship and Democracy Flashcards) Flashcards on 1.6 Russian Foreign Policy, created by samstevenson2014 on 03/05/2015.
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