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WorksheetsRAT 11- terror
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What were the NKVD?
a)
the secret police
b)
Stalin's private police
c)
the police
d)
an economic policy
2.
What was the aim of the NKVD?
a)
destroy anyone considered to be an enemy of communist rule
b)
the keep down the number of murders
c)
to stop petty criminals
d)
to stop traffic crime
3.
Give an example of what you might do to become an ‘enemy of the people’ (3 answers)
a)
dropping rubbish
b)
failing to meet factory targets
c)
failing to cut out photos of Trotsky from textbooks
d)
drawing on a photo of Stalin
4.
What happened if the NKVD had not met their quota for arrests?
a)
they arrested more people
b)
nothing
c)
they got the night off
d)
they were not allowed to be police anymore
5.
Give three reasons why the purges happened.
a)
Stalin just didn’t like the Germans
b)
control peasants and workers
c)
remove opposition
d)
to protect the government
6.
Whose murder triggered off the purges?
a)
Kirov
b)
Trotsky
c)
Kamenev
d)
Zinoviev
7.
What were the show trials?
a)
Famous prisoners on trial
b)
Normal people on trial
c)
All trials
d)
only the ones on TV
8.
Why did people confess at the show trials?
a)
As they believed that is what the Communist Party wanted
b)
because they were all guilty
c)
because they knew they would get off
d)
because they liked the little hammer the judge had
9.
What effect did the purges have on the armed forces?
a)
weakened it
b)
made it stronger
c)
no change
d)
the army were not purged
10.
What were zeks?
a)
slave labour
b)
freed prisoners
c)
informers
d)
new part officals
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