Key Dates

Question 1

October 1917

Answer 1

Russian Revolution

Question 2

1917-20

Answer 2

Russian Civil War

Question 3

September 1939

Answer 3

Hitler and Stalin partitioned Poland

Question 4

June 1941

Answer 4

German invasion of USSR

Question 5

September 1943

Answer 5

Italian Armistice

Question 6

November-December 1943

Answer 6

Tehran Conference

Question 7

6th June 1944

Answer 7

Allied forces invade France

Question 8

July 1944

Answer 8

Red Army enter central Poland

Question 9

23rd August 1944

Answer 9

Formation of coalition government in Romania

Question 10

9th September 1944

Answer 10

Communist coup in Bulgaria

Question 11

9th October 1944

Answer 11

Anglo-Soviet ‘percentages agreement’

Question 12

December 1944

Answer 12

British suppressed Communist uprising in Greece

Question 13

4th-11th February 1945

Answer 13

Yalta Conference

Question 14

8th May 1945

Answer 14

Unconditional German surrender

Question 15

July-August 1945

Answer 15

Potsdam Conference

Question 16

5th March 1946

Answer 16

Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech

Question 17

21st April 1946

Answer 17

Social Unity Party formed

Question 18

April-July 1946

Answer 18

Paris Conference of Foreign Ministers

Question 19

3rd May 1946

Answer 19

General Clay halted reperation payments from Soviet Zone

Question 20

1st January 1947

Answer 20

Anglo-American bizone formed

Question 21

10th February 1947

Answer 21

Peace treaties signed with Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland and Hungary

Question 22

12th March 1947

Answer 22

Truman Doctrine announced

Question 23

March-April 1947

Answer 23

Council of Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, Moscow

Question 24

May 1947

Answer 24

Communists excluded from government in France and Italy

Question 25

5th June 1947

Answer 25

Marshall Aid Plan announced

Question 26

5th October 1947

Answer 26

Cominform announced

Question 27

15th December 1947

Answer 27

Break up of London Foreign Ministers' Conference

Question 28

20th June 1948

Answer 28

Currency reform in Western zones

Question 29

24th June 1948

Answer 29

Berlin Blockade started

Question 30

12th May 1949

Answer 30

Berlin Blockade ended and COMECON formed

Question 31

4th April 1949

Answer 31

NATO set up

Question 32

August 1949

Answer 32

FRG established

Question 33

12th October 1949

Answer 33

GDR set up

Question 34

25th June 1950

Answer 34

Outbreak of Korean War

Question 35

18th April 1951

Answer 35

European Coal and Steel Community (Schuman Plan) Treaty

Question 36

10th March 1952

Answer 36

Stalin's note proposing a neutral unified Germany

Question 37

27th May 1952

Answer 37

European Defence Community (EDC) Treaty signed in Paris

Question 38

5th March 1953

Answer 38

Stalin died

Question 39

16th-17th June 1953

Answer 39

Strikes and riots in the GDR

Question 40

5th May 1955

Answer 40

The FRG became a sovereign state and joined NATO

Question 41

14th May 1955

Answer 41

Warsaw Pact signed

Question 42

25th February 1956

Answer 42

Krushchev attacked Stalin at the Twentieth Party Progress

Question 43

June 1956

Answer 43

Riots in Poland

Question 44

4th November 1956

Answer 44

Hungarian Rising defeated

Question 45

25th March 1957

Answer 45

Treaty of Rome signed

Question 46

27th November 1958

Answer 46

Krushchev's Berlin ultimatum

Question 47

January 1959

Answer 47

Castro seized power in Cuba

Question 48

1st May 1960

Answer 48

US U-2 plane shot down over USSR

Question 49

16th-17th May 1960

Answer 49

Paris Summit broke down

Question 50

13th August 1961

Answer 50

Frontier between East and West Berlin closed

Question 51

13th September 1962

Answer 51

USA warned USSR on installation of missiles in Cuba

Question 52

October-November 1962

Answer 52

Cuban Missile Crisis