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When was the end of the Second World War

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August 14th 1945 with the surrender of the Japanese

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When was the Yalta conference?

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February 1945

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When was the Potsdam Conference?

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July 1945

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When was Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech?

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March 1946

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When did the Truman Doctrine become policy?

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March 1947 with Truman declaring an active role in Greek Civil War

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When was the Marshall Plan announced?

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June 1947

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When was Truman’s Loyalty Program announced?

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March 1948

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When was the Brussel Pact created?

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March 17 to protect Europe from communism

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When did the Berlin Blockade begin?

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June 1948

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When was NATO created?

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April 1949

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When did the Berlin Blockade end?

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May 1949

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When did Russia get the A-Bomb?

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August 1949

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When was the Communist takeover of China?

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October 1949

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When did Truman approve Hydrogen bomb development?

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January 1950

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When did Joe McCarthy begin his Communist witch hunt?

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February 1950

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When did the Korean War begin?

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June 1950

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When did the British develop the A-Bomb

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October 1952

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When did the CIA overthrow the Iranian Government?

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1953

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When did the CIA overthrow the Guatemala?

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1953

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When was the Warsaw Pact formed?

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May 1955

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When was the Hungarian Revolution?

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October to November 1956

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When was the Suez Crisis?

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October-November 1956

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When was Sputnik launched into space?

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October 1957

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When did Castro take over Cuba?

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January 1959

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When was the Kitchen Debate?

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September 1959

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When was JFK elected?

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November 1960

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When did Cuba openly align itself with the Soviet Union?

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December 1960

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When was the Bay of Pigs invasion?

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April 1961

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When did the construction of the Berlin Wall begin?

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August 1961

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When was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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October 1962

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When was the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified?

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July 1963

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32
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When was JFK assassinated?

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November 1963

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33
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When was the Gulf of Tonkin incident?

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August 1964

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34
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When did China develop the A-bomb?

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October 1964

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When did the U.S. begin fighting in the Dominican Republic against Communism?

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April 1965

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When did U.S. involvement in Vietnam escalate?

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July 1965

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When did Robert McNamara admit that US bombing raids in Vietnam had failed in their objectives?

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1967

38
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When was Nixon elected?

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1968

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When did the Soviet’s invade Czechoslovakia?

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August 1968

40
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When did Apollo 11 land on the Moon?

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July 1969

41
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When were the Pentagon Papers published?

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1971

42
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When does Nixon visit China?

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February 1972

43
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When was SALT I signed?

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July 1972

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When was a ceasefire agreed between the U.S. and North Vietnam?

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January 1973

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When did the U.S. supported coup overthrow the Chilean government and install Pinochet as dictator?

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September 1973

46
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When did Nixon resign?

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August 1974

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When does South Vietnam fall?

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April 1975

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When is the communist takeover of Angola?

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February 1976

49
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When did the U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations?

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January 1979

50
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When was SALT II signed?

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July 1979

51
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When was the Iranian Revolution?

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November 1979

52
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When did Soviet forces invade Afghanistan?

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December 1979

53
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When was the Polish shipyard workers strike Solidarity Union formed and Lech Walesa elected leader?

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August 1980

54
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In what year was Reagan elected?

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1981 and 1985

55
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When do U.S. troops invade Grenada?

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October 1983

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When does Mikhail Gorbachev become leader of the Soviet Union?

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March 1985

57
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When was the Reykjavik summit?

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October 1986

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When did Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all medium and short range nuclear missiles?

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October 1987

59
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When did the Soviet’s withdraw from Afghanistan?

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January 1989

60
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When does Poland become independent?

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June 1989

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When does Hungary become independent?

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September 1989

62
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When was the Berlin Wall demolished?

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November 1989

63
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When did the communist governments of Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania fall?

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December 1989

64
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When was Boris Yeltsin elected President of Russia?

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May 1990

65
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When was Germany reunited?

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October 1990

66
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When was the death of Stalin

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March 1953

67
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When was Khrushchev removed and replaced with Brezhnev?

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October 1964

68
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When was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project?

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July 1975

69
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When did the U.S. boycott the Moscow Olympics?

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July 1980

70
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When was the Tito-Stalin split?

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1948

71
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When did the Sino-Soviet split occur?

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1961

72
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When did Brezhnev became General Secretary?

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October 1964

73
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When did the shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 take place?

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September 1983

74
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When did Able Archer take place?

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November 1983

75
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When does the Revisionist school develop?

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1960s

76
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When was the Soviet occupation of Iran

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1946

77
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When was the Cominform formed?

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October 1947

78
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When was the Czech coup?

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February 1948

79
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When was West Germany established?

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September 1949

80
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When was East Germany established?

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October 1949

81
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What was Thomas A. baileys book called and what did it argue?

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America faces Russia 1950: argued that the breakdown of postwar peace was the result of Soviet expansionism in the immediate years following ww2

82
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When was Klaus Fuchs convicted and what for?

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1950, for passing on secrets from the Manhattan project to the Soviets

83
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When were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted and what for?

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1951, for being involved in the spy ring that conveyed Klaus Fuchs atomic secrets to the Soviets

84
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When did Mao declare that he was unafraid of Nuclear war?

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1957

85
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In what year did JFK use the missile gap to his advantage?

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1960

86
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When was JFK and Khrushchev’s Vienna summit?

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1961

87
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When did the U.S. place Pershing II missiles in western Germany?

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1983

88
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When did Reagan make his Star Wars speech?

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March 1983

89
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When did Gorbachev announce a moratorium on nuclear testing?

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August 1985

90
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When did Gorbachev and Reagan sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF)?

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December 1987

91
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When was START signed?

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July 1991

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