General Knowledge Flashcards
What three major world leaders attended the Yalta conference in 1945?
Churchill
Stalin
Roosevelt
What three major world leaders attended the Potsdam conference in 1945?
Stalin
Atlee
Truman
When was the Potsdam conference of 1945?
July/August 1945
When was the Yalta conference of 1945?
February 1945
When did Fidel Castro’s supporters overthrow the US backed Batista government in Cuba?
January 1st 1959
Before the Cuban Revolution of 1959 which overthrow end the Batista Regime, what percentage of Cuba’s sugar industry did the US own?
50%
Name one of Castro’s reforms implemented after the Cuban Revolution of 1959.
Land and business Nationalisation.
How many soviet troops and nuclear warheads were present in Cuba during the Missile Crisis of 1962?
42,000 soviet troops
45 nuclear warheads
- 9 short range
- 36 medium range
When were the North and South governments of the Korean Peninsula officially formed?
1948
When was the armistice signed in the Korean War?
1953
When was the ceasefire agreed in the Vietnam War?
January 1973
When did the Vietnam War end?
1975
When did China become Communist?
October 1st 1949
When was the ‘Treaty of Friendship’ signed between the Soviet Union and China, how long was it intended to last for and how much investment did the USSR promise over the succeeding years?
February 1950
30 years
$300 million
Who lead the Nationalists during the Chinese Civil War?
Chang Kai-Shek
When did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan and when did they withdraw?
December 24th 1979
1988
When did Gorbachev come to power and when did he resign as General Secretary of the Soviet Union?
1985
December 1991
When was the Berlin Wall taken down?
1989
When and where was the trade union ‘Solidarity’ founded?
1980
Gdansk, Poland
What were the aims of ‘Solidarity’?
Lower food prices.
Referendum on the one party state.
When did ‘Solidarity’ re-emerge after being banned in 1980?
Solidarity re-emerged as an underground organisation in 1988 and called a strike.
The trade union was legalised in 1989, along with the right to strike and free elections.
When did Poland have its first non-communist government since 1945?
1989
Name the countries which fell to communism in Europe after WWII, and the year they fell.
Yugoslavia, 1945 Albania/Bulgaria, 1946 Poland/Romania/Hungary, 1947 Czechoslovakia, 1948 East Germany (GDR), 1949
