Question

This man and Mikhail Frunze (“FROONZ-yay”) alternatively name pointy cloth hats that Bolshevik revolutionaries wore to resemble bogatyrs. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this mustachioed commander who extolled the valor of cavalry, while his rival Mikhail Tukhachevsky (“too-khuh-CHEFF-skee”) championed tanks. His disastrous defense of Kyiv in 1941 caused the encirclement of over a million Soviet soldiers.
ANSWER: Semyon Budyonny (“bood-YUN-nee”) [or Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny; accept budyonovka or budenovka]
[10e] Budyonny (“bood-YUN-nee”) was so upset that Tukhachevsky wanted to prioritize tanks that he got him killed during this period, in which Joseph Stalin cleared out rivals with alleged Trotskyist ties.
ANSWER: Great Purge [or Great Terror or Bolshoy terror; accept Year of ’37 or Tridtsat Sedmoy God; accept Period of Yezhov or Yezhovshchina; prompt on purge or terror; reject “Bolshevik terror”]
[10m] Frunze and Tukhachevsky earlier devised the “deep battle” strategy to maximize the value of armored vehicles; the Soviets used it to defeat the Kwantung Army at this decisive 1939 battle in Mongolia.
ANSWER: Battle of Khalkhin Gol [accept Nomonhan Incident or Nomonhan jiken]
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Data

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Arizona StateClaremont Colleges0000
Berkeley AYale A010010
Berkeley BTruman State0101020
BrownNorthwestern0101020
Chicago ACornell A0101020
Chicago BWaterloo010010
Chicago CVanderbilt0101020
Georgia TechIllinois0101020
HarvardKentucky0101020
Johns HopkinsIowa State010010
MarylandToronto A010010
McGillSouth Carolina010010
Minnesota BChicago D010010
NYUMichigan0101020
North Carolina AWUSTL A010010
North Carolina BCornell B0101020
OttawaPenn0101020
PurdueIndiana010010
RutgersFlorida0101020
StanfordMinnesota A0101020
TexasColumbia A0101020
Toronto BDuke0101020
WUSTL BColumbia B010010
Yale BVirginia010010

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals04/21/2024Y2415.0096%54%0%