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