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Question 1

Betty Friedan publishes “The Feminine Mystique “

Answer 1

1963

Question 2

Willy Brandt becomes West German foreign minister and develops Ostpolitik

Answer 2

1966

Question 3

First successful human heart transplant

Answer 3

1967

Question 4

Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Answer 4

1968

Question 5

Student uprisings throughout Europe and the United States

Answer 5

1968

Question 6

US astronauts walk on the moon’s surface

Answer 6

1969

Question 7

SALT I between the United States and Soviet Union

Answer 7

1972

Question 8

End of Vietnam War

Answer 8

1973

Question 9

OPEC raises price of oil and imposes oil embargo on the West

Answer 9

1973

Question 10

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn publishes “The Gulag Archipelago”

Answer 10

1973 - 1976

Question 11

The first test-tube baby is born in England

Answer 11

1978

Question 12

Islamic revolution in Iran
hostages are taken at U.S. embassy in Teheran

Answer 12

1978 - 1979

Question 13

Solidarity organizes resistance to Polish communism

Answer 13

1980

Question 14

British prime minister Margaret Thatcher begins dismantling the welfare state

Answer 14

1980

Question 15

Ronald Reagan becomes U.S. president

Answer 15

1981

Question 16

Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet premier

Answer 16

1985

Question 17

Explosion at Chernobyl nuclear plant

Answer 17

1986

Question 18

Spain joins the Common Market

Answer 18

1986

Question 19

Chinese students revolt in Tiananmen Square

Answer 19

1989

Question 20

Communist governments are ousted in eastern Europe

Answer 20

1989

Question 21

Berlin Wall is demolished

Answer 21

1989

Question 22

Which events took place in 1968? Name at least two events.

Answer 22

1. Prague Spring: 4 month period of freedom and liberation in Czechoslovakia, achieved when Alexander Dubcek was elected first secretary of country’s communist party
2. Student uprisings throughout Europe and the USA

Question 23

Which year the Catastrophe of Chernobyl took place?

Answer 23

1986.
Explosion of nuclear plant

Question 24

What happened in 1989?

Answer 24

Fall of Berlin Wall
Fall of Communism
End of Communist and Socialist regimes in eastern Europe

Question 25

When did the Islamic revolution in Iran take place? Who was replaced by whom?

Answer 25

1978 - 1979 Replacement of imperial state of Iran by the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran