History GCSE
Military vulnerability
What Military vulnerability means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Military vulnerability
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The severe weakening of the Red Army caused by the purge of the armed forces, leaving the Soviet Union vulnerable to the Nazi invasion in 1941.
Topics that use Military vulnerability
- Option 30: Key topic 3: Stalin’s rise to power and dictatorship, 1924–41 - 2 The use of terror in the 1930s (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Dictatorship and control
- Elimination of opposition
- Gulag
- NKVD
- Political manipulation and propaganda
- Political terror
- State terror
- The destruction of the Old Bolsheviks
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