Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1930s

Litvinov used the ____ to condemn German agression and the policy of appeasement, but was unsuccessful in influencing policy.

LoN

Despite Lenin calling it a _____ ___ and a _____ ____, the USSR joined the LoN in (____)

• robbers den

• capitalist club

• 1934

In (____) Stalin condemned foreign leftist parties as _____ _____s, but reversed this policy, endorsing Popular fronts from (___)

• 1928

• social fascists

• 1935

When allies failed to react to Hitler’s reoccupation of the Rhineland (____), it completely undermined the rules based order on treaties.

1936

When did Germany and Japan sign an anti-comintern pact?

1936

The invasion of Manchuria (____) raised fears of a war on the USSR’s eastern front, exacerbated by the full invasion of China in (___)

• 1931

• 1937

The USSR kick-started its network of non-aggression treaties with a Non-Agression Pact with Poland (___)

1932

In May (___) the USSR did a mutual assistance pact with _____ and _____, however these lacked any military talks, so were mainly just empty words.

• 1935

• France

• Czechoslovakia

Prompted by the Great Depression, FDR recognised the USSR in (___) as a major diplomatic breakthrough

1933

In (___), Hitler became chancellor of Germany, with his explicit anti-communist and anti-slavic rhetoric marking a turning point in Soviet Foreign Policy

1933

Following the trial of the 17 and military purges in (___), western nations became more reluctant to form alliances with a destabilised and more erratic USSR

1937

When the Spanish civil war broke out in (____), the USSR gave Spain _____ personal and £__ _______ in aid.

• 1936

• 2,000

• 80 million

Hitlers’ unopposed annexation of Austria in (___) further confirmed soviet doubts in collective security and Western powers’ resolve against Hitler.

1938

The Munich conference (____) further convinced Stalin of Western power’s appeasement and even that they were trying to direct Hitler eastward

1938

In (____ ___) Litvinov was fired, condemning his policy of collective security, and, due to his jewish identity, it cleared the way for a rapprochement with Germany.

May 1939

When was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?

August 1939

In (___ ____) the USSR invades Finland, leading to the costly winter war that exposed weaknesses in the Red Army.

Nov 1939

The Soviets defeated the Japanese army at the Battle of ____ ___ in the summer of (____)

• Khalkhin Gol

• 1939