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Lev Kamenev Nikolai Bukharin Grigory Zinoviev Alexei Rykov Show Answer

Top Commies Stalin crossed off his list (high level purge victims) Back to Board

SERGEI KIROV (1934) and LEON TROTSKY (1940) Show Answer

ASSASSINATED! (Kirov’s assassinations launched the purges!) Back to Board

FIND THE RINGER: Yugoslavia Hungary Romania Finland Bulgaria Show Answer

All except YUGOSLAVIA were allied with the Germans in WWII Back to Board

FIND THE RINGER: Prague Belgrade Athens Vienna Budapest Show Answer

Fraction of the globe covered by modern Russia, the world’s largest country (17.1 million square miles) Back to Board

Panel of 3 who passed sentence during Stalin’s purges Show Answer

NKVD Troika Back to Board

Approximate number of Soviet citizens who were arrested or disappeared before the war: a.2 million b.7 million c.10 million d.20 million e.50 million Show Answer

B. 7 million Back to Board

Percentage of members of the Bolshevik Party who were killed or exiled in Stalin’s purges: a.10% b.25% c.50% d.60% e.75% Show Answer

D. 60% (including ALL the members of Lenin’s original Politburo) Back to Board

It broadly defined subversive offenses, formalizing Stalin’s purge Show Answer

Article 58 Back to Board

JEOPARDY: Name the German offensive against the Soviets. DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Identify the 3 parts by time and place and evaluate each. Show Answer

Operation Barbarossa: #1: Summer 1941 German armies reach the key cities of Leningrad, Kiev, and Moscow, but are stopped by the onset of winter #2: Summer 1942 Attack from the south stalls at Stalingrad; Russians launch a successful counteroffensive #3: Summer 1943 Attack on the Dnieper-Don watershed fails Back to Board

Aug. 8, 1945 Show Answer

Soviets declared war on JAPAN Back to Board

Sept. 1, 1939 Show Answer

Start of WWII - GERMAN invasion of POLAND Back to Board

1878 in Gori, Georgia Show Answer

Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili was born (STALIN!) Back to Board

Feb in the Crimea Show Answer

FDR, Churchill, & Stalin met at YALTA Back to Board

1899 in Baku Show Answer

Stalin was expelled from the seminary, and he began passing out communist propaganda & organizing protests in Baku. Back to Board

It hit like lightning on Sept. 1, 1939! Show Answer

Germany blitzed Poland, starting WWII Back to Board

Signed Aug. 23, 1939, it was the formal nonagression treaty in which Germany & the Soviet Union agreed 1.Not to attack each other 2.To attack & split Eastern Europe Show Answer

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact Back to Board

In 1936, Stalin replaced IT with a new one which established the pre- eminence of the Communist Party as well as a bicameral legislature and an executive council….DOUBLE PTS if you can NAME that executive council! Show Answer

Constitution of Council of People’s Commisars Back to Board

WHAT (base pts.) & WHEN (daily double) It was Stalin’s institutional response to NATO Show Answer

The WARSAW PACT (Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance) 1949 Back to Board

1.Demanding reparations 2.Rigging elections 3.Stationing troops 4.Ensuring economic dependence by forbidding the Marshall Plan Show Answer

How Stalin secured the Soviet hold on the Eastern European bloc Back to Board

WHAT (base points) & WHEN (daily double): Stalin’s institutional response to the Marshall Plan Show Answer

COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) Nov Back to Board

Why the Allies gave Stalin Eastern Europe Show Answer

He promised them he’d hold democratic elections. Back to Board

It was the first place the USSR attacked after the Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact Show Answer

POLAND Back to Board

“ROOTLESS COSMOPOLITANS ” Show Answer

Russian code word for Jews, a group who were discriminated against by the Soviet government in a.Immigration policy b.Employment in higher education and the sciences Back to Board

These two groups were seen by Stalin as the primary source of dissent against the post-WWII Soviet state Show Answer

Intellectuals & artists Back to Board

Show Answer He succeeded Stalin as Gen. Sec. of the Soviet Communist Party, but not for long, even though he remained Prime Minister (Premier) until 1955.

GEORGY MALENKOV Back to Board

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As of 1936, the USSR consisted of JEOPARDY: ___ ( #) of Soviet Socialist Republics DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Name the 4 main types of territories that represented minority groups TRIPLE JEOPARDY: List the republics Show Answer

Back to Board JEOPARDY: 11 Soviet Socialist Republics DOUBLE J: Autonomous republic, Oblast, Okrug, and Krai TRIPLE J: Russia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Belorussia, Turkmenistan Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, & Kyrgyzstan

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