Origins Of The Cold War

Question 1

Yalta conference M/Y

Answer 1

February 1945

Question 2

Harry Truman becomes US president M/Y

Replaces Roosevelt

Answer 2

April 1945

Question 3

Hitler defeated M/Y

Answer 3

May 1945

Question 4

US tests the first atom bomb M/Y

Answer 4

June 1945

Question 5

Potsdam conference M/Y

Answer 5

July 1945

Question 6

Japan refuse to surrender D/M/Y
US drop bomb on Hiroshima D/M/Y
US drop bomb on Nagasaki D/M/Y

Answer 6

3rd August, 1945
6th August, 1945
9th August, 1945

Question 7

Albania taken over by Communist Soviet Union

Answer 7

1945

Question 8

Romania taken over by Communist Soviet Union

Answer 8

1946

Question 9

Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech D/M/Y & location

Answer 9

5th March, 1946

Fulton, Missouri, USA

Question 10

Truman Doctrine announced M/Y

Answer 10

March 1947

Question 11

Stalin sets up Cominform M/Y

Answer 11

October, 1947

Question 12

Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland taken over by the Communist Soviet Union Y

Answer 12

1947

Question 13

Czechoslovakia taken over by Communist Soviet Union M/Y

Answer 13

March, 1948

Question 14

Marshall Aid introduced M/Y

Answer 14

March, 1948

Question 15

Bi-zonia created in Germany M/Y

Answer 15

June, 1948

Question 16

USSR blockades Berlin M/Y

Answer 16

June, 1948

Question 17

NATO set up M/Y

Answer 17

April, 1949