Facts and dates

Question 1

Yalta conference

Answer 1

Feb 4-11th 1945

Question 2

WW2 end in Europe (VE day)

Answer 2

May 8th 1945

Question 3

Potsdam conference

Answer 3

July 1945

Question 4

Hiroshima bombing and Nagasaki

Answer 4

August 6th 1945

August 8th 1945

Question 5

Japan surrender to end World War 2

Answer 5

August 14th 1945

Question 6

Stalin’s hostile speech

Answer 6

February 9th 1946

Question 7

Truman Doctrine

Answer 7

March 12th 1947

Question 8

Marshall Plan

Answer 8

June 1947

Question 9

Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia

Answer 9

February 1948

Question 10

Berlin Blockade starts

Answer 10

June 1948 lasting 11 months

Question 11

NATO formed

Answer 11

April 4th 1949

Question 12

Berlin Blockade ends

Answer 12

May 12th 1949

Question 13

Russia tests first atomic bomb

Answer 13

August 29th 1949

Question 14

Communist control of China forming People’s Republic of China

Answer 14

October 1st 1949

Question 15

Truman approved H-bomb development

Answer 15

January 30th 1950

Question 16

Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt and loyalty tests

Answer 16

February 1950

Question 17

Korean War begins

Answer 17

June 24th 1950

Question 18

A-bombs developed by Britain

Answer 18

1952

Question 19

Nuclear arms race

Answer 19

1945 ish or 1949

Question 20

RAND report on the “Vulnerability of U. S. Strategic Air Power”

Answer 20

April 15th 1953

Question 21

Korean war ends

Answer 21

July 1953

Question 22

KGB (main security agency for Soviet Union) formed

Answer 22

March 1954

Question 23

Warsaw pact

Answer 23

May 1955

Question 24

USSR sent tanks into Poznan, Poland, to suppress demonstrations by workers

Answer 24

June 29th 1956

Question 25

Rebellion put down in Communist Hungary.

Answer 25

October- November 1956

Question 26

Krushchev’s secret speech

Answer 26

March 1956

Question 27

Suez Crisis began

Answer 27

October 29th 1956

Question 28

Vostok rocket launched 1st ICBM

Answer 28

August 26th 1957

Question 29

Sputnik launched into orbit

Answer 29

October 4th 1957

Question 30

Sputnik 2 launched with Laika

Answer 30

November 3rd 1957

Question 31

Explorer 1 launched

Answer 31

January 31st 1958

Question 32

Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin

Answer 32

November 1958

Question 33

Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro

Answer 33

January 1959

Question 34

Khrushchev visits United States

Answer 34

September 1959

Question 35

Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory

Answer 35

May 1960

Question 36

Truman become president and Roosevelt die

Answer 36

April 12 1945

Question 37

Eisenhower takes over as president

Answer 37

1953

Question 38

Stalin take control of communist party

Answer 38

1924

Question 39

Stalin died

Answer 39

March 5th 1953

Question 40

Krushchev becomes premier of USSR

Answer 40

March 27th 1958

Question 41

Cominform established

Answer 41

September 1947

Question 42

Churchill Iron curtain speech

Answer 42

March 5th 1946

Question 43

Clement Attlee becomes Prime Minister

Answer 43

July 1945

Question 44

Uprising in East Germany

Answer 44

June 16th 1953

Question 45

Formation of West Germany

Answer 45

23rd May 1949

Question 46

Austrian Independence Treaty

Answer 46

May 1955

Question 47

Kennan’s Long telegram

Answer 47

February 22 1946