Cold War

Question 1

Tehran conference

Answer 1

1943

Question 2

Yalta conference

Answer 2

February 1945

Question 3

Potsdam Conference

Answer 3

July 1945

Question 4

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 4

6th and 9th August 1945

Question 5

Stalin tests his own atomic bomb

Answer 5

1949

Question 6

Novikov and Long telegram.

Answer 6

Novikov was September 1946, Long was February 1946

Question 7

Iron Curtain Speech

Answer 7

March 1946

Question 8

Between what years were the Satellite States created?

Answer 8

1945 - 1949

Question 9

When was it that three million Germans had left East Germany?

Answer 9

1958

Question 10

Geneva Summit

Answer 10

May 1959

Question 11

Camp David Summit

Answer 11

September 1959

Question 12

Paris Summit

Answer 12

May 1960

Question 13

Vienna Summit

Answer 13

June 1961

Question 14

Barbed wire fence put up between East and West Berlin

Answer 14

12th August 1961

Question 15

President Kennedy visits Berlin

Answer 15

1963

Question 16

Cuban Revolution

Answer 16

January 1959

Question 17

Castro overthrows Batista in a revolution

Answer 17

1959

Question 18

USA stops buying Cuban sugar

Answer 18

January 1960

Question 19

USA stops all diplomatic relations with Cuba

Answer 19

January 1961

Question 20

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Answer 20

November 1989

Question 21

Bay of Pigs invasion

Answer 21

April 1961

Question 22

Kruschev publicly announces that the USSR will provide Cuba with arms

Answer 22

September 1961

Question 23

Castro has a powerful and well funded army

Answer 23

By 1962

Question 24

U2 spy plane discovers missile sites being built on Cuba

Answer 24

14th October 1962

Question 25

JFK decides to place a naval blockade around Cuba

Answer 25

22nd October 1962

Question 26

Soviet ships turn back once arriving at the blockade

Answer 26

24th October 1962

Question 27

Kruschev sends a letter to JFK saying that the missiles would be removed from Cuba if the USA removed the blockade and did not invade

Answer 27

26th October 1962

Question 28

Kruschev writes a second letter to Kennedy asking him to remove missiles from Turkey

Answer 28

27th October 1962

Question 29

Kruschev is removed from office

Answer 29

1964

Question 30

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was setup after the Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 30

1963

Question 31

Dubcek introduces reforms such as less censorship as part of the Prague Spring

Answer 31

April 1968

Question 32

Brezhnev replaces Kruschev as Soviet leader

Answer 32

1968

Question 33

500,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to end the Prague Spring

Answer 33

20th August 1968

Question 34

Dubcek is replaced by Gustav Husak after being arrested

Answer 34

1969

Question 35

Brezhnev Doctrine

Answer 35

1968

Question 36

Détente starts

Answer 36

1969

Question 37

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty 1 is signed

Answer 37

May 1972

Question 38

Helsinki Accords are signed

Answer 38

1963

Question 39

Talks about SALT 2 continue until this date

Answer 39

18th June 1979

Question 40

President Nixon visits Moscow

Answer 40

1972

Question 41

Brezhnev visits Washington

Answer 41

1973