General Knowledge

Question 1

What three major world leaders attended the Yalta conference in 1945?

Answer 1

Churchill
Stalin
Roosevelt

Question 2

What three major world leaders attended the Potsdam conference in 1945?

Answer 2

Stalin
Atlee
Truman

Question 3

When was the Potsdam conference of 1945?

Answer 3

July/August 1945

Question 4

When was the Yalta conference of 1945?

Answer 4

February 1945

Question 5

When did Fidel Castro’s supporters overthrow the US backed Batista government in Cuba?

Answer 5

January 1st 1959

Question 6

Before the Cuban Revolution of 1959 which overthrow end the Batista Regime, what percentage of Cuba’s sugar industry did the US own?

Answer 6

50%

Question 7

Name one of Castro’s reforms implemented after the Cuban Revolution of 1959.

Answer 7

Land and business Nationalisation.

Question 8

How many soviet troops and nuclear warheads were present in Cuba during the Missile Crisis of 1962?

Answer 8

42,000 soviet troops
45 nuclear warheads
- 9 short range
- 36 medium range

Question 9

When were the North and South governments of the Korean Peninsula officially formed?

Answer 9

1948

Question 10

When was the armistice signed in the Korean War?

Answer 10

1953

Question 11

When was the ceasefire agreed in the Vietnam War?

Answer 11

January 1973

Question 12

When did the Vietnam War end?

Answer 12

1975

Question 13

When did China become Communist?

Answer 13

October 1st 1949

Question 14

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?

Answer 14

February 1950
30 years
$300 million

Question 15

Who lead the Nationalists during the Chinese Civil War?

Answer 15

Chang Kai-Shek

Question 16

When did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan and when did they withdraw?

Answer 16

December 24th 1979

1988

Question 17

When did Gorbachev come to power and when did he resign as General Secretary of the Soviet Union?

Answer 17

1985

December 1991

Question 18

When was the Berlin Wall taken down?

Answer 18

1989

Question 19

When and where was the trade union ‘Solidarity’ founded?

Answer 19

1980

Gdansk, Poland

Question 20

What were the aims of ‘Solidarity’?

Answer 20

Lower food prices.

Referendum on the one party state.

Question 21

When did ‘Solidarity’ re-emerge after being banned in 1980?

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

When did Poland have its first non-communist government since 1945?

Answer 22

1989

Question 23

Name the countries which fell to communism in Europe after WWII, and the year they fell.

Answer 23

Yugoslavia, 1945
Albania/Bulgaria, 1946
Poland/Romania/Hungary, 1947
Czechoslovakia, 1948
East Germany (GDR), 1949