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Team OneTeam One

Team TwoTeam Two

Team ThreeTeam Three

Team FourTeam Four

Team FiveTeam Five

Team SixTeam Six

Lev Kamenev

Nikolai Bukharin

Grigory Zinoviev

Alexei Rykov

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Top Commies Stalin crossed off his list

(high level purge victims)

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SERGEI KIROV (1934)

and

LEON TROTSKY (1940)

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ASSASSINATED!

(Kirov’s assassinations launched the purges!)

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FIND THE RINGER:

Yugoslavia

Hungary

Romania

Finland

BulgariaShow Answer

All except

YUGOSLAVIA

were

allied with the Germans

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FIND THE RINGER:

Prague

Belgrade

Athens

Vienna

BudapestShow Answer

Fraction of the globe covered by modern Russia, the world’s

largest country

(17.1 million square miles)

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Panel of 3 who passed sentence during Stalin’s purges

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NKVD Troika

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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 millionShow Answer

B. 7 million

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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)

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It broadly defined subversive offenses, formalizing Stalin’s

purge

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Article 58

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JEOPARDY: Name the German offensive against the Soviets.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Identify the 3 parts by time and place and evaluate each.

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Operation Barbarossa:#1: Summer 1941German armies reach the key cities of Leningrad, Kiev, and Moscow, but are stopped by the onset of winter

#2: Summer 1942Attack from the south stalls at Stalingrad; Russians launch a successful counteroffensive

#3: Summer 1943Attack on the Dnieper-Don watershed fails

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Aug. 8, 1945

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Soviets declared war on JAPAN

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Sept. 1, 1939

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Start of WWII

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GERMAN invasion of

POLAND

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1878 in Gori, Georgia

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Joseph

Vissarionovich

Djugashvili was born

(STALIN!)

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Feb. 1945 in the Crimea

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FDR, Churchill, & Stalin met at YALTA

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1899 in Baku

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Stalin was expelled from the seminary, and he began passing out

communist propaganda & organizing protests

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It hit like lightning on Sept. 1, 1939!

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Germany blitzed Poland, starting WWII

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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

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Molotov-Ribbentrop

Pact

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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!

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Constitution of 1924

-

Council of People’s Commisars

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WHAT (base pts.)

&

WHEN (daily double)

It was Stalin’s institutional response to NATO

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The WARSAW PACT

(Organization of Friendship,

Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance)

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1. Demanding reparations

2. Rigging elections

3. Stationing troops

4. Ensuring economic dependence by forbidding

the Marshall Plan

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How Stalin secured the Soviet hold on the

Eastern European bloc

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WHAT (base points)

&

WHEN (daily double):

Stalin’s institutional response to the Marshall

Plan

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COMECON

(Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)

Nov. 1947

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Why the Allies gave Stalin Eastern Europe

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He promised them he’d hold democratic

elections.

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It was the first place the USSR attacked after the Molotov-

Ribbentrop Pact

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POLAND

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“ROOTLESSCOSMOPOLITANS”

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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

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These two groups were seen by Stalin as the

primary source of dissent against the

post-WWII Soviet state

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Intellectuals & artists

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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

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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

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302928272625242322212019181716151413121110987654321

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JEOPARDY: 11 Soviet Socialist Republics

DOUBLE J: Autonomous republic,Oblast, Okrug, and Krai

TRIPLE J: Russia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Belorussia, TurkmenistanUkraine, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, & Kyrgyzstan

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