COLD WAR KEY DATES

Question 1

Yalta conference DATE

Answer 1

1944

Question 2

End of WWII in Europe DATE

Answer 2

1945

Question 3

Potsdam conference DATE

Answer 3

1945

Question 4

Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki DATE

Answer 4

1945

Question 5

Churchill’s iron curtain speech DATE

Answer 5

1947

Question 6

Marshall plan put into action DATE

Answer 6

1948

Question 7

Comecon is established DATE

Answer 7

1949

Question 8

NATO is formed DATE

Answer 8

1949

Question 9

Berlin airlift DATE

Answer 9

1949

Question 10

USSR successfully tests an atomic bomb DATE

Answer 10

1949

Question 11

Formation of the People’s Republic of China DATE

Answer 11

1949

Question 12

North Korea invades South Korea leading to the Korean War DATE

Answer 12

1950

Question 13

The US successfully tests a hydrogen bomb

Answer 13

1952

Question 14

Korean War ends DATE

Answer 14

1953

Question 15

French withdrawal from Vietnam DATE

Answer 15

1954

Question 16

Formation of the Warsaw Pact DATE

Answer 16

1955

Question 17

Hungarian uprising DATE

Answer 17

1956

Question 18

Sputnik (first man-made satellite) is launched by the USSR DATE

Answer 18

1957

Question 19

Korean War lasted from ____—____

Answer 19

1950–1953

Question 20

Fidel Castro takes power in Cuba DATE

Answer 20

1959

Question 21

American U2 spy plane is shot down over the USSR leading to the U2 crisis DATE

Answer 21

1960

Question 22

Bay of Pigs invasion attempt DATE

Answer 22

1961

Question 23

Berlin Wall is constructed DATE

Answer 23

1961

Question 24

Cuban Missile Crisis DATE

Answer 24

1962

Question 25

Prague Spring movement DATE

Answer 25

1968

Question 26

Neil Armstrong, an American, becomes the first man to set foot on the moon DATE

Answer 26

1969

Question 27

SALT I DATE

Answer 27

1972