Cold War Dates Recap

Question 1

When was the Tehran conference?

Answer 1

1943- November.

Question 2

When was the Yalta conference?

Answer 2

1945- February.

Question 3

When did the USA test the A-bomb?

Answer 3

1945.

Question 4

When was the Potsdam conference?

Answer 4

1945- July.

Question 5

When did the USA drop bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Answer 5

1945- August.

Question 6

When was the Kennan Long telegram?

Answer 6

1946- February.

Question 7

When did Churchill give the ‘Iron Curtain’ speech?

Answer 7

1946- March.

Question 8

When was the Novikov telegram?

Answer 8

1946- September.

Question 9

When was the Truman Doctrine announced?

Answer 9

1947- March.

Question 10

When was Marshall Aid announced?

Answer 10

1947- June.

Question 11

When was Cominform set up?

Answer 11

1947- September.

Question 12

When was the Berlin blockade set up?

Answer 12

1948- June.

Question 13

When was Comecon set up?

Answer 13

1949- January.

Question 14

When was NATO set up?

Answer 14

1949- April.

Question 15

When did the Berlin Blockade end?

Answer 15

1949- May.

Question 16

When was the Federal Republic of Germany set up?

Answer 16

1949- May (three days after blockade ended).

Question 17

When did the USSR test the A-bomb?

Answer 17

1949.

Question 18

When was the German Democratic Republic set up?

Answer 18

1949- October.

Question 19

When did the USA test the hydrogen bomb?

Answer 19

1952- November.

Question 20

When did Eisenhower become US President?

Answer 20

1953- January.

Question 21

When did Stalin die and Khrushchev take over?

Answer 21

1953- March.

Question 22

When did the USSR test the hydrogen bomb?

Answer 22

1953- August.

Question 23

When did the German Federal Republic join NATO?

Answer 23

1955- May.

Question 24

When was the Warsaw Pact Treaty signed?

Answer 24

1955- May (a week after Federal Republic of Germany joined NATO).

Question 25

When did Khrushchev make a speech criticising Stalin?

Answer 25

1956- February.

Question 26

When was the Hungarian Uprising crushed?

Answer 26

1956- November.

Question 27

When was Khrushchev’s Berlin Ultimatum?

Answer 27

1958- November.

Question 28

When was the Geneva Summit?

Answer 28

1959- May.

Question 29

When did Khrushchev visit the USA?

Answer 29

1959- September.

Question 30

When was the Camp David Summit?

Answer 30

1959- September.

Question 31

When was the U-2 Crisis?

Answer 31

1960- May.

Question 32

When was the Paris Summit?

Answer 32

1960- May.

Question 33

When did Kennedy become President

Answer 33

1961- January.

Question 34

When did Castro become leader of Cuba?

Answer 34

1959.

Question 35

When did Castro sign the agreement with Khrushchev?

Answer 35

1960- February.

Question 36

When did the USA break diplomatic relations with Cuba?

Answer 36

1961- January.

Question 38

When was the ‘Bay of Pigs’ invasion?

Answer 38

1961- April.

Question 39

When did construction start for the Berlin Wall?

Answer 39

1961- August.

Question 41

When did Khrushchev offer weapons to Cuba?

Answer 41

1961- September.

Question 42

When did spy-planes show Soviet missile silos?

Answer 42

1962- October 14th.

Question 43

When did ‘Thirteen days’ begin?

Answer 43

1962- October 16th.

Question 44

When did Soviet Union agree to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba?

Answer 44

1962- October 28th.

Question 45

When was the ‘hotline’ set up?

Answer 45

1963- June.

Question 46

When was the Test Ban Treaty signed?

Answer 46

1963- August.

Question 47

When did Kennedy give the ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech?

Answer 47

1963- June.

Question 48

When was Kennedy assassinated?

Answer 48

1963- November.

Question 50

When was the Vienna Summit

Answer 50

1961- June.