Cold war key dates

Question 1

1947

Answer 1

the start of the cold war

Question 2

1917

Answer 2

Russia became communist

Question 3

1914 and 1917

Answer 3

Germany invaded Russia in 1914, then again in 1917

Question 4

1941

Answer 4

Hitler invaded Russia

Question 5

February 1945

Answer 5

the Yalta conference

Question 6

July 1945

Answer 6

the Potsdam conference

Question 7

19th August 1945

Answer 7

USA successfully tested their first atomic bomb

Question 8

1949

Answer 8

the USSR got their own nuclear weapon

Question 9

by 1947

Answer 9

all E.European states apart from Czechoslovakia had communists governments

Question 10

1947

Answer 10

the Truman doctrine

Question 11

1947

Answer 11

cominform

Question 12

1948

Answer 12

Czechoslovakia came under the influence of a communist government

Question 13

1948

Answer 13

Marshall plan

Question 14

1949

Answer 14

comecon

Question 15

1948

Answer 15

the Berlin crisis

Question 16

1945

Answer 16

Germany and berlin had been divided into zones of occupation

Question 17

May 1949

Answer 17

Stalin called off the blockade

Question 18

May 1949

Answer 18

the division of Germany into two states

Question 19

April 1949

Answer 19

NATO

Question 20

1955

Answer 20

the warsaw pact

Question 21

1949

Answer 21

China becomes communist

Question 22

1950-53

Answer 22

the Korean war

Question 23

June 1950

Answer 23

communist north Korea invaded the south

Question 24

May 1960

Answer 24

the U-2 spy plane incident

Question 25

1959

Answer 25

Batista was overthrown by Castro

Question 26

1960

Answer 26

Castro allied Cuba with the Soviet Union

Question 27

1961

Answer 27

Kennedy broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba

Question 28

October 1962

Answer 28

U-2 planes photographed soviet missiles in Cuba

Question 29

October 14th 1962

Answer 29

start of Cuban missile crisis

Question 30

October 28th 1962

Answer 30

Khrushchev removed the missiles and the crisis was over

Question 31

1963

Answer 31

the Nuclear test ban treaty signed

Question 32

1954

Answer 32

Indo-China was divided into North and South Vietnam

Question 33

1960

Answer 33

NLF was set up