Cold War dates

Question 1

Tehran Conference

Answer 1

Nov 1943

Question 2

Yalta Conference

Answer 2

Feb 1945

Question 3

Potsdam Conference

Answer 3

July-Aug 1945

Question 4

Germany’s defeat

Answer 4

May 1945

Question 5

US atomic bomb developed

Answer 5

1945

Question 6

war against Japan ended

Answer 6

Aug 1945

Question 7

Soviet atomic bomb developed

Answer 7

Aug 1949

Question 8

Long Telegram & Novikov Telegram

Answer 8

1946

Question 9

Iron Curtain speech

Answer 9

Mar 1946

Question 10

Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia not granted own gov.s & treated as part of Soviet Union

Answer 10

1940

Question 11

Poles staged Warsaw Uprising (against German army) but crushed & given pro-Communist gov. by USSR

Answer 11

1944

Question 12

Bulgaria, Romania & eastern zone of Germany given ‘free elections; but intimidated to vote communist

Answer 12

1944-45

Question 13

communist party supported by Moscow won elections in Hungary (rigged)

Answer 13

1947

Question 14

Hungary one party state

Answer 14

by 1949

Question 15

communist coup supported by Stalin in Czechoslovakia

Answer 15

1948

Question 16

Truman Doctrine

Answer 16

Mar 1947

Question 17

Marshall Plan

Answer 17

June 1947

Question 18

Communist Information Bureau (Cominform)

Answer 18

Sep 1947

Question 19

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon)

Answer 19

Jan 1949

Question 20

Comecon tried to organise industrial planning across satellite states

Answer 20

after 1953

Question 21

(Berlin blockade) Soviets stormed out of talks

Answer 21

Dec 1947

Question 22

France joined zone of Germany with Britain & USA to create Trizonia

Answer 22

Mar 1948

Question 23

Western allies created Deutschmark

Answer 23

June 1948

Question 24

Stalin shut off land routes across Soviet controlled E. G.

Answer 24

June 1948

Question 25

170,000 tonnes of supplies received by W. Berlin

Answer 25

Jan 1949

Question 26

(Berlin Blockade) Stalin lifted the blockade

Answer 26

9th May 1949

Question 27

Federal Republic of Germany (W)

Answer 27

May 1949

Question 28

German Democratic Republic (E)

Answer 28

Oct 1949

Question 29

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

Answer 29

Apr 1949

Question 30

FRG joined NATO

Answer 30

May 1955

Question 31

Warsaw Pact

Answer 31

May 1955

Question 32

USA developed hydrogen bomb

Answer 32

1952

Question 33

USSR developed hydrogen bomb

Answer 33

1953

Question 34

USA developed inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)

Answer 34

1957

Question 35

USSR ensured friendly communist gov. in Poland by removing political opponents

Answer 35

1947

Question 36

Khrushchev became leader of USSR

Answer 36

1956

Question 37

Khrushchev's 'secret speech'

Answer 37

1956

Question 38

(Hungarian Uprising) Rakosi (unpop) replaced by Nagy (pop)

Answer 38

Oct 1956

Question 39

(Hungarian Uprising) Nagy announced plans to withdraw from Warsaw Pact

Answer 39

1st Nov 1956

Question 40

(Hungarian Uprising) Khrushchev ordered invasion of H.

Answer 40

4th Nov 1956

Question 41

3 million Germans had fled E. G. & over 20,000 were fleeing every month

Answer 41

by 1958

Question 42

(Khrushchev) Geneva & Camp David Summits

Answer 42

1959

Question 43

(Khrushchev & Eisenhower) Paris Summit (Gary Powers)

Answer 43

1960

Question 44

(Khrushchev & JFK) Vienna Summit

Answer 44

1961

Question 45

E. German troops built barbed wire fence around Berlin & between E. & W. Berlin

Answer 45

night of 12th Aug 1961

Question 46

group of revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro toppled pro-American gov. of Cuba led by General Batista

Answer 46

1959

Question 47

(CMC) Castro nationalised all industry

Answer 47

May 1959

Question 48

USSR began to buy Cuban sugar

Answer 48

Feb 1960

Question 49

US reduced amount of Cuban sugar they bought

Answer 49

July 1960

Question 50

US & Cuba broke off diplomatic relations

Answer 50

Jan 1961

Question 51

JFK authorised CIA plan to use Cuban exiles to invade Cuba & remove Castro

Answer 51

1961

Question 52

Bay of Pigs invasion

Answer 52

Apr 1961

Question 53

U2 spy plane took photos showing Soviet IRBM bases being constructed on Cuba

Answer 53

14th Oct 1962

Question 54

(CMC) Soviet ships reached blockade & turned around

Answer 54

24th Oct 1962

Question 55

(CMC) Khrushchev sent his agreement & crisis ended

Answer 55

28th Oct 1962

Question 56

direct communications line (hotline)

Answer 56

June 1963

Question 57

Test Ban Treaty

Answer 57

Aug 1963

Question 58

Outer Space Treaty

Answer 58

1967

Question 59

Czechoslovakia essentially controlled by USSR

Answer 59

since 1948

Question 60

(Czechoslovakia) protests against low standard of living & lack of freedom grew

Answer 60

by 1966

Question 61

(Czechoslovakia) Novotny replaced by Dubcek

Answer 61

Jan 1968

Question 62

Dubcek introduced the Prague Spring reforms

Answer 62

April 1968

Question 63

500,000 Warsaw Pact troops entered Czechoslovakia

Answer 63

20th Aug 1968

Question 64

USA occupied with Vietnam War since

Answer 64

1965

Question 65

SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitations Talks)

Answer 65

May 1972

Question 66

Helsinki Accords

Answer 66

Aug 1975

Question 67

Apollo-Soyuz space link up

Answer 67

1975 (after Helsinki Accords)

Question 68

talks working towards second SALT continued until

Answer 68

18th June 1979

Question 69

Iranian hostage crisis

Answer 69

1979 (before SALT II)

Question 70

Hafizullah Amin staged popular coup in Afghanistan

Answer 70

Sep 1979

Question 71

(Afghanistan) pro-Soviet gov. had been in power since

Answer 71

1978

Question 72

Brezhnev ordered 50,000 Soviet troops to invade Afghanistan

Answer 72

24th Dec 1979 - 1st Jan 1980

Question 73

(Afghanistan) Amin assassinated by USSR

Answer 73

27th Dec 1979

Question 74

Carter Doctrine issued in State of the Union speech

Answer 74

Jan 1980

Question 75

Moscow Olympic Games

Answer 75

1980

Question 76

Olympics in Los Angeles

Answer 76

1984

Question 77

Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in US presidential election

Answer 77

1980

Question 78

Reagan persuaded Congress to increase US spending on arms & defence by 13% in ... & further 8% in ...

Answer 78

1982 1983

Question 79

(Reagan) Soviet economy in desperate state

Answer 79

by 1985

Question 80

Reagan gave speech to Christian group describing Soviet Union as 'evil empire'

Answer 80

1983

Question 81

Reagan announced Strategic Defence Initiative

Answer 81

1983

Question 82

Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of USSR & introduced range of reforms know as 'new thinking'

Answer 82

1985

Question 83

(Gorbachev & Reagan) Geneva Summit

Answer 83

1985

Question 84

(Gorbachev & Reagan) Reykjavik Summit

Answer 84

1986

Question 85

(Gorbachev & Reagan) Washington Summit (signed INF Treaty)

Answer 85

1987

Question 86

panicked border guards opened gates in Berlin Wall

Answer 86

9th Nov 1989

Question 87

Germany reunified as one country

Answer 87

Oct 1990

Question 88

Gorbachev announced he would permanently disband Warsaw Pact

Answer 88

July 1991

Question 89

Baltic Sates (Latvia, Lithuania & Estonia) declared independence

Answer 89

throughout 1990 / by end of 1990

Question 90

communist gov.s began to be replaced across E. Europe

Answer 90

throughout 1989&1990

Question 91

(Gorbachev & Bush) Malta Summit (promised co-operation)

Answer 91

1989

Question 92

Gang of Eight staged military coup in Soviet Union

Answer 92

Aug 1991

Question 93

Gorbachev resigned

Answer 93

25th Dec 1991