Date Test

Question 1

In what year was the SED created?

Answer 1

1946

Question 2

What year was the Berlin Blockade?

Answer 2

1948

Question 3

What year was the GDR created?

Answer 3

1949

Question 4

What year did the GDR join COMECON?

Answer 4

1950

Question 5

What year was the Stasi formed?

Answer 5

1950

Question 6

What year was ‘Stalin’s Note’?

Answer 6

1952

Question 7

In what year did Agricultural Collectivisation start?

Answer 7

1952

Question 8

What year was the June Uprising?

Answer 8

1953

Question 9

What year was the Warsaw Pact founded?

Answer 9

1955

Question 10

What year was the NVA started?

Answer 10

1956

Question 11

What year was Mielke made head of the Stasi?

Answer 11

1957

Question 12

In what year did Trabants become available?

Answer 12

1958

Question 13

When did Khrushchev issue his ultimatum?

Answer 13

1958

Question 14

What year did the 7 Year Plan begin?

Answer 14

1959

Question 15

In what year did the ‘Socialist Spring’ start?

Answer 15

1960

Question 16

In what year was the Berlin wall built?

Answer 16

1961

Question 17

What year did the NES start?

Answer 17

1963

Question 18

In what year was there unrest in Leipzig over the banning of ‘Beat Music’?

Answer 18

1965

Question 19

In what year was the GDR’s New Constitution?

Answer 19

1968

Question 20

When was the ESS introduced?

Answer 20

1968

Question 21

What year did Ostpolitik begin?

Answer 21

1969

Question 22

When did Honecker replace Ulbricht?

Answer 22

1971

Question 23

In what year was the ‘Basic Treaty’ signed?

Answer 23

1972

Question 24

In what year was the constitution amended to describe the GDR as a ‘Socialist State of Workers and Peasants’?

Answer 24

1974

Question 25

When were the Helsinki Accords signed?

Answer 25

1975

Question 26

When was the Church-State agreement?

Answer 26

1978

Question 27

In what year was the first German in space?

Answer 27

1978

Question 28

What year was the Church-Peace movement?

Answer 28

1978

Question 29

In what year did FRG chancellor Schmidt visit the GDR?

Answer 29

1981

Question 30

In what year was Honecker’s planned visit to the FRG cancelled by the Russians?

Answer 30

1984

Question 31

In what year did Honecker visit the FRG after his first attempt was stopped?

Answer 31

1987

Question 32

What year was the Stasi raid on the Environmental Library?

Answer 32

1987

Question 33

In what year did Hungary dismantle its border with Austria?

Answer 33

1989

Question 34

In what year were ‘New Forum’ founded?

Answer 34

1989

Question 35

In what month and year were the Monday demonstrations in Leipzig?

Answer 35

September 1989

Question 36

In what year and month was Honecker replaced by Krenz?

Answer 36

October 1989

Question 37

In what year and month was the Berlin wall opened?

Answer 37

November 1989

Question 38

In what year, month and day did the SED renounce its claim to leadership?

Answer 38

December 1st 1989

Question 39

In what year and month was the free government elections?

Answer 39

March 1990

Question 40

In what year and month was the currency union?

Answer 40

July 1990