Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact - Quiz
Molotov Ribbentrop Pact
  • 1. Which country did the Soviets sign a neutrality pact with on 13 April 1941?
A) Japan
B) Romania
C) Italy
D) Hungary
  • 2. Who was the Wehrmacht general invited to the 1 May 1941 parade in Moscow?
A) Hans Krebs
B) Friedrich Gaus
C) Hans Frank
D) Ernst von Weizsäcker
  • 3. On what date did Germany terminate the pact by attacking the Soviet Union?
A) 22 June 1941
B) 23 August 1939
C) 13 April 1941
D) 1 May 1941
  • 4. Who was entrusted with the microfilms of the secret German Foreign Office records?
A) Robert C. Thomson
B) Karl von Loesch
C) Ralph Collins
D) Wendell B. Blancke
  • 5. In what year did the Soviet Union officially admit the existence of the secret protocol?
A) 1968
B) 1989
C) 1946
D) 1948
  • 6. What was the name of the operation Germany launched to invade the Soviet Union?
A) Operation Thuringia
B) Operation Red Square
C) Operation Nuremberg
D) Operation Barbarossa
  • 7. Who was the American State Department employee that discovered the microfilms in 1945?
A) Thomas J. Dodd
B) Raymond J. Sontag
C) James S. Beddie
D) Wendell B. Blancke
  • 8. In which newspaper were the secret protocols first published in English?
A) St. Louis Post-Dispatch
B) New York Times
C) London Gazette
D) The Manchester Guardian
  • 9. Which Nazi Foreign Office lawyer wrote the secret protocol from memory for an affidavit?
A) Ernst von Weizsäcker
B) Hans Frank
C) Ribbentrop
D) Friedrich Gaus
  • 10. What event was held on 23 August 1986 to draw attention to the secret protocols?
A) Foreign Ministers Conference
B) Black Ribbon Day Rallies
C) International Workers Day
D) Nuremberg Trials
  • 11. What penalty did Germany enact for disobedience to the occupation at the end of October 1939?
A) Forced exile
B) Confiscation of property
C) Life imprisonment
D) Death penalty
  • 12. Approximately how many Polish children were kidnapped for the purpose of Germanization?
A) 200,000–500,000
B) 10,000–50,000
C) 500,000–1,000,000
D) 50,000–200,000
  • 13. What was the name of the plan aimed at eliminating the Polish intelligentsia?
A) Intelligenzaktion
B) Generalplan Ost
C) Operation Tannenberg
D) AB-Aktion
  • 14. Approximately how many people were killed as a result of the ten regional actions of the Intelligenzaktion?
A) 16,000
B) 330,000
C) 100,000
D) 60,000
  • 15. How many members of the intelligentsia were murdered in Operation Tannenberg alone?
A) More than 16,000
B) 100,000
C) 60,000
D) 43,000
  • 16. How many Poles were forced to resettle by the Nazi effort to incorporate land?
A) Five million
B) 500,000
C) One million
D) Two million
  • 17. As part of Operation Tannenberg, how many Polish peasants were forced to leave their land?
A) 750,000
B) 100,000
C) 330,000
D) 2,000,000
  • 18. How many Polish citizens were transported to the Reich for forced labour?
A) 380,000
B) Between 1 and 2.5 million
C) 50,000–200,000
D) 100,000
  • 19. How many people perished in Auschwitz?
A) 1.1 million
B) 43,000
C) 100,000
D) 380,000
  • 20. Which regions did the Soviet Union occupy and annex between 28 June and 4 July 1940?
A) Siberia and the remote interior
B) Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region
C) Warsaw and the surrounding ghettos
D) Northern Transylvania and Southern Dobruja
  • 21. Who issued the Second Vienna Award on 30 August 1940?
A) The Bulgarian leadership
B) Hitler and Stalin
C) The Romanian government
D) Ribbentrop and Galeazzo Ciano
  • 22. To which country was Northern Transylvania given under the Second Vienna Award?
A) Hungary
B) The Soviet Union
C) Bulgaria
D) Germany
  • 23. Which country received Southern Dobruja through the Treaty of Craiova?
A) The Soviet Union
B) Bulgaria
C) Hungary
D) Italy
  • 24. How many Polish citizens were arrested by the Soviets in the two years after the annexation?
A) Approximately 100,000
B) 16,000
C) 350,000
D) 1.5 million
  • 25. How many people were estimated to have died after being deported by the Soviets following the annexation?
A) Between 250,000 and 1,000,000
B) 100,000
C) 43,000
D) 1.1 million
  • 26. What was the pretext used by the Soviets to withdraw from the Soviet–Finnish Non-Aggression Pact?
A) The shelling of Mainila
B) The expulsion of Soviet diplomats from Helsinki
C) The sinking of a Soviet merchant ship
D) An alleged border crossing by Finnish troops
  • 27. What was the primary goal of the Soviet invasion of Finland?
A) Annexation of Finland into the Soviet Union
B) Establishment of a neutral buffer zone
C) Prevention of German influence in the Baltic
D) Recovery of lost imperial Russian territories
  • 28. What government did the Soviets form to rule Finland after a planned conquest?
A) Provisional Government of Finland
B) Soviet Finnish Socialist Republic
C) Finnish People's Committee
D) Finnish Democratic Republic
  • 29. Who was the leader of the Leningrad Military District who commissioned a musical piece for the expected victory parade?
A) Nikita Khrushchev
B) Semyon Timoshenko
C) Joseph Stalin
D) Andrei Zhdanov
  • 30. Which composer was commissioned to write 'Suite on Finnish Themes'?
A) Sergei Prokofiev
B) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
C) Igor Stravinsky
D) Dmitri Shostakovich
  • 31. Who commanded the Soviet forces when the Soviets settled for an interim peace?
A) Georgy Zhukov
B) Nikita Khrushchev
C) Andrei Zhdanov
D) Semyon Timoshenko
  • 32. What percentage of Finnish territory was ceded after the Winter War?
A) 9%
B) 12%
C) 5%
D) 20%
  • 33. Who claimed that Soviet casualties in the Winter War might have been one million?
A) Nikita Khrushchev
B) Semyon Timoshenko
C) Joseph Stalin
D) Andrei Zhdanov
  • 34. What happened on 5 March 1940 regarding Polish prisoners?
A) The Katyn massacre took place
B) The prisoners were deported to Siberia
C) The prisoners were integrated into the Red Army
D) The prisoners were released to their homes
  • 35. On what date was the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact officially signed in Moscow?
A) 24 August 1939
B) 1 September 1939
C) 28 September 1939
D) 23 August 1939
  • 36. Who signed the pact on behalf of the Soviet Union?
A) Joseph Stalin
B) Vladimir Lenin
C) Vyacheslav Molotov
D) Leon Trotsky
  • 37. How long did the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact commit both sides to neutrality and non-alliance against each other?
A) Indefinitely
B) 5 years
C) 10 years
D) 20 years
  • 38. According to the Secret Additional Protocol, which country was initially in the German sphere of influence but later transferred to the Soviet sphere?
A) Finland
B) Latvia
C) Estonia
D) Lithuania
  • 39. When was the existence of the Secret Protocol first made public?
A) Upon the fall of the Soviet Union
B) During the signing of the Boundary and Friendship Treaty
C) Immediately after the invasion of Poland
D) During the Nuremberg trials
  • 40. What was the result of the Nazi racial ideology regarding Slavs in the Soviet Union?
A) They were considered ideal allies
B) They were treated as equals to Germans
C) They were viewed as subhuman
D) They were viewed as masters of financial capitalism
  • 41. Who approached Poland in 1935 to propose a military alliance against the Soviet Union?
A) Joachim von Ribbentrop
B) Hermann Göring
C) Adolf Hitler
D) Alfred Rosenberg
  • 42. What was the nature of the Spanish Civil War regarding Germany and the Soviet Union?
A) A proxy war
B) A trade partnership
C) A non-aggression agreement
D) A formal military alliance
  • 43. How did Hitler describe Stalin after viewing a film of him in 1939?
A) A man he could do business with
B) A potential threat to the Reich
C) A dangerous enemy
D) An inferior leader
  • 44. Why did Britain and France exclude the Soviet Union from the 1938 Munich Conference?
A) The Soviet Union refused to attend
B) Stalin was already allied with Germany
C) Hitler's fierce anti-Soviet rhetoric
D) The Soviet Union was not a European power
  • 45. What happened to Czechoslovakia in early 1939?
A) It joined the Soviet Union
B) It signed a peace treaty with Germany
C) It regained its independence
D) It had been completely dissolved
  • 46. Why did Germany seek closer relations with the Soviet Union for economic reasons?
A) To share industrial secrets
B) To outsource its agricultural production
C) To create a common currency
D) To obtain raw materials
  • 47. What military threat did Germany fear would cause raw material shortages?
A) A British naval blockade
B) A shortage of workers in the factories
C) An invasion by the Soviet Union
D) The collapse of the German navy
  • 48. Which agreement did Hitler denounce on 28 April 1939?
A) The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
B) 1935 Anglo–German Naval Agreement
C) The Munich Agreement
D) The Treaty of Versailles
  • 49. Which country was more anxious to reach an agreement with the Soviet Union, France or Britain?
A) Neither was anxious
B) Britain
C) Both were equally reluctant
D) France
  • 50. Who headed the British delegation at the military negotiations in Moscow?
A) Admiral Sir Reginald Drax
B) Neville Chamberlain
C) Kliment Voroshilov
D) General Aimé Doumenc
  • 51. What was the Soviet Politburo's outlook on the military negotiations on 11 August 1939?
A) Enthusiastic
B) Neutral
C) Optimistic
D) Pessimistic
  • 52. What was the name of the German aircraft used by Ribbentrop to travel to Moscow?
A) Red Square Express
B) Grenzmark
C) Condor Alpha
D) Deutschland
  • 53. What song did the Soviet military band play upon the arrival of the Nazi emissaries?
A) God Save the Tsar
B) Horst-Wessel-Lied
C) The Internationale
D) Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles
  • 54. Which Nazi symbol was displayed next to the hammer and sickle during the reception?
A) Swastika
B) SS Runes
C) Iron Cross
D) Eagle
  • 55. Who was the chief of Stalin's personal chancellery who greeted the Germans at the office?
A) Maxim Litvinov
B) Alexander Poskrebyshev
C) Vyacheslav Molotov
D) Nikolai Vlasik
  • 56. What was the German civil registration of the plane used by Ribbentrop?
A) D-ACVH
B) N-A-Z-I
C) S-U-88
D) G-M-39
  • 57. Who was Stalin's chief bodyguard that traveled with the German delegation?
A) Alexander Poskrebyshev
B) Nikolai Vlasik
C) Hans Baur
D) Gustav Hilger
  • 58. Which country's foreign minister feared that if the Red Army entered its territory, it would never leave?
A) Finland
B) Romania
C) Poland
D) Latvia
  • 59. Who was the author of the 'Nazi Talks Secret' article in the New York Times?
A) Charles Bohlen
B) Samuel N. Harper
C) John Gunther
D) Otto D. Tolischus
  • 60. What event was used by Germany as a false flag operation on 31 August 1939?
A) The annexation of Bessarabia
B) Invasion of Poland
C) Gleiwitz incident
D) The secret protocol signing
  • 61. Which historian named the pact the 'most stunning volte-face in diplomatic history'?
A) Max Domarus
B) John Gunther
C) Geoffrey Roberts
D) Arnold A. Offner
  • 62. How did Time Magazine refer to the pact until April 1941?
A) Communazi Pact
B) The Steel Pact
C) The Anti-Democratic Agreement
D) The Berlin-Moscow Alliance
  • 63. Which Soviet city provided radio signals to assist German air forces?
A) Moscow
B) Minsk
C) Lviv
D) Brest-Litovsk
  • 64. According to the text, what was the reason given for the Soviet radio signals provided to German aircraft?
A) Urgent aeronautical experiments
B) Coordination of ground troops
C) Weather reporting
D) Navigational guidance for bombers
  • 65. What publication described Hitlerism as 'brown communism' and Stalinism as 'red fascism'?
A) The New York Times
B) Izvestia
C) The London Times
D) Pravda
  • 66. What term did the Soviets use for their campaign in the newly acquired Polish territories?
A) Westernisation
B) Democratisation
C) Liberation
D) Sovietisation
  • 67. Which military units participated in the strafing of fleeing civilian refugees in Poland?
A) The SS
B) The Wehrmacht
C) The Red Army
D) The Luftwaffe
  • 68. How many days after the Soviet invasion of Poland was the secret protocol modified?
A) Twenty days
B) Five days
C) Eleven days
D) Thirty days
  • 69. When did the German ambassador inform Ribbentrop about the Soviet willingness to cede Vilnius?
A) 3 October
B) 8 October
C) 17 September
D) 28 September
  • 70. What did the 'Pact of Defence and Mutual Assistance' permit the Soviet Union to do?
A) Annex the Baltic states completely
B) Establish a joint government
C) Change the borders of the Baltic states
D) Station troops in the Baltic states
  • 71. Which major city and its environs was the Soviet government willing to cede to Lithuania?
A) Tallinn
B) Vilnius
C) Warsaw
D) Riga
  • 72. When did Soviet NKVD troops raid border posts in the Baltic states?
A) Early July 1940
B) Mid-May 1940
C) Mid-June 1940
D) Late August 1939
  • 73. Which area of Lithuania was originally earmarked for Germany but annexed by the Soviets?
A) The Baltic coastline
B) The Vilnius region
C) The Estonian border
D) The Šešupė area
  • 74. Who denounced rumors of the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact as 'Fascist propaganda'?
A) Georgi Dimitrov
B) Maurice Thorez
C) Stalin
D) Herbert Biberman
  • 75. Who sketched the new Comintern line on 7 September 1939?
A) Georgi Dimitrov
B) Molotov
C) Stalin
D) Walter Ulbricht
  • 76. Which French communist leader deserted from the army on 4 October 1939?
A) Earl Browder
B) Maurice Thorez
C) Walter Ulbricht
D) Herbert Biberman
  • 77. In what city was the communist newspaper 'Die Welt' published?
A) Paris
B) Stockholm
C) Moscow
D) Berlin
  • 78. Which of the following was transported from Manchuria to Germany through Soviet territory?
A) Soybeans
B) Cotton
C) Phosphates
D) Wheat
  • 79. What was the name of the submarine base provided by the Soviets to Germany?
A) Northern Route Station
B) Basis Nord
C) Baltic Naval Point
D) Murmansk Base
  • 80. Which commerce raider used the Northern Sea Route before the German invasion?
A) Komet
B) Bismarck
C) Tirpitz
D) Graf Spee
  • 81. Which country did Germany occupy in early September 1940 to target its oil fields?
A) Romania
B) Bulgaria
C) Hungary
D) Latvia
  • 82. Which article of the pact required Germany to consult with the Soviet Union regarding occupations?
A) Article I
B) Article II
C) Article IV
D) Article III
  • 83. How much wheat did Germany receive from the Soviets in the first year of the 1940 pact?
A) 100,000 tons
B) Half-a-million tons
C) One million tons
D) 900,000 tons
  • 84. What naval plans were the Soviets to receive from Germany?
A) Destroyer Z3
B) Battleship Bismarck
C) U-boat Type VII
D) Aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin
  • 85. Who sent Molotov to Berlin to negotiate Soviet participation in the Axis?
A) Stalin
B) Hitler
C) Ribbentrop
D) Lenin
  • 86. Which Soviet diplomat admitted that Stalin's book did not disprove Soviet-German cooperation?
A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Victor Israelyan
C) Alexander Yakovlev
D) Aleksandr Dyukov
  • 87. How did Vladimir Putin describe the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in 2009?
A) Immoral
B) A diplomatic masterpiece
C) Necessary and glorious
D) A mistake of the past
  • 88. When was the Soviet copy of the original secret protocol document declassified?
A) 1989
B) 2019
C) 1948
D) 1992
  • 89. Which Russian Foreign Minister provided an approving foreword to a book by Nataliya Narotchnitskaya?
A) Victor Israelyan
B) Alexander Yakovlev
C) Sergei Lavrov
D) Vladimir Putin
  • 90. Which Russian President described the pact as 'necessary for Russia's survival' in 2014?
A) Vladimir Putin
B) Boris Yeltsin
C) Dmitry Medvedev
D) Mikhail Gorbachev
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