STALIN: MAN OF STEEL DVD VIDEO QUESTIONS
1. What does the name Stalin mean?
2. In what city did the Bolsheviks seize power and end the rule of the czars?
3. What was Stalin’s best gift?
4. T or F – There was a clear line of succession following Lenin’s death.
5. What two men struggled for control of the party after Lenin’s death?
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7. T or F – Stalin aligns himself with the Russian Orthodox Church.
8. Who is the new God?
9. Name one goal of Stalin’s Five Year Plan.
10. What does Stalin do with the peasant’s (farmers) land?
11. What does Stalin do to those who disobey his orders?
12. What happens in the GULAGS?
13. What does NKVD mean?
14. What did Stalin do in the Ukraine (beginning in 1932)?
15. T or F – While 5 million starve to death Stalin exports 5 million tons of grain.
16. What happened to Stalin’s second wife?
17. What happened to those who voted against Stalin?
18. What are purges?
19. What does Stalin sign? (at his desk after a night enjoying himself)
20. Where are those who sent who are not executed?
21. What was the life of the individual worth in the GULAG?
22. Name one thing the GULAG Kolyma stands for.
23. T or F – Many prisoners in Kolyma worshipped Stalin.
24. How many prisoners would lose their lives in Kolyma?
25. Name one way Stalin portrayed a heroic public image.
26. When Stalin was 14 yrs. old he was sent away to become a what?
27. T or F – Stalin and his mother had a close and loving relationship.
28. In what year did Stalin have his top generals killed?
29. In 1939 Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with whom?
30. In what country had Trotsky taken exile? (Stalin had him murdered there)
31. What happened on June 22, 1941?
32. T or F – The Red Army was ready and well prepared for this.
33. T or F – There were many reports that Hitler was going to attack.
34. T or F – Hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers were taken prisoner.
35. T or F – The Russians are unwilling to fight.
36. For every German casualty there were how many Russian?
37. What happened to Russian deserters?
38. Who ordered this to be done?
39. How many different armies (how many pronged) did Hitler send into Russia?
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T or F – Stalin’s son was captured and taken prisoner by the Germans.
Within how many miles did Germany get within Moscow?
What did Stalin have done to the churches at this time?
The full force of what turned against the Germans? (this was a decisive element)
What does Stalin want from the Allies? (from US, and Britain)
What city has been surrounded by the Germans?
How long will this siege last?
How many people will die of cold and starvation?
Where is the Germany army in the south heading? (to what city)
T or F – The battle for this city will be the turning point in the war.
T or F – Stalin swapped his son (POW in German camp) for German Field Marshall
Paulus.
What does Stalin have done with German prisoners of war?
D-Day is June 6 of what year?
What does Stalin order for fleeing German civilians?
Whose body do the Russians recover in a bunker in Berlin?
How many men, women and children died as a result of WWII?
T or F – Stalin was a brilliant military strategist.
Who is the US president at Potsdam?
Name one way Stalin tried to protect himself.
What one word was Stalin obsessed with?
What position did Stalin’s other son hold?
What 2 ways out did he (Stalin’s son) believe he only had?
About how long (almost) had Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with complete control?
What did Stalin conclude after seeing the effects of the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima?
Who does Stalin trust?
T or F – Stalin is afraid of his own doctors.
T or F – Stalin planned to use the atomic bomb on Europe.
How does Stalin die?
T or F – Even those who despised Stalin wept at his funeral?
Only in what place is there no mourning the death of Stalin?
T or F – Khrushchev (the successor) publicly condemns Stalin.