important dates

Question 1

Yalta Conference

Answer 1

Feb 1945

Question 2

Potsdam Conference

Answer 2

July 1945

Question 3

NATO formation

Answer 3

1949

Question 4

Warsaw Pact formation

Answer 4

1955

Question 5

Stalin dies

Answer 5

1953

Question 6

Hungarian Uprising

Answer 6

1956

Question 7

Czechoslovakia and Prague Spring

Answer 7

1968

Question 8

Brezhnev Doctrine

Answer 8

1968

Question 9

Berlin wall built

Answer 9

1961

Question 10

U2 plane shot down over USSR

Answer 10

1960

Question 11

First artificial satellite launched and Soviets test fire the first intercontinental ballistic missile

Answer 11

1957

Question 12

First submarine launched

Answer 12

1960

Question 13

First man in space - Yuri Gagarin

Answer 13

1961

Question 14

First man on the moon- Neil Armstrong

Answer 14

1969

Question 15

Polish economy in crisis

Answer 15

1979

Question 16

Polish Government forces to raise price of goods

Answer 16

July 1980

Question 17

Truman Doctrine

Answer 17

1947

Question 18

Treaty of St Germain - Austria

Answer 18

1919

Question 19

Treaty of Trianon -Hungary

Answer 19

1920

Question 20

Treaty of Neuilly - Bulgaria

Answer 20

1919

Question 21

Treaty of Sevres - Turkey

Answer 21

1920

Question 22

Korean war

Answer 22

Start 1950

End 1953

Question 23

General MacArthur gets sacked - Korean war

Answer 23

1951

Question 24

Cuban revolution - leader goes from Batista to Castro

Answer 24

1959

Question 25

Bay of Pigs

Answer 25

1961

Question 26

Vienna Summit - Khrushchev and Kennedy meet

Answer 26

1961

Question 27

Khrushchev public ally announces he will provide Cuba with arms

Answer 27

1961

Question 28

Khrushchev tells Kennedy he has no intention of placing missiles on Cuba

Answer 28

Sept 1962

Question 29

US spy plane photographs the construction of nuclear missiles on Cuba

Answer 29

1962

Question 30

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 30

Late October 1962

Question 31

Gulf of Tonkin incident

Answer 31

1964

Question 32

Operation Rolling Thunder starts

Answer 32

1965

Question 33

First American combat troops

Answer 33

1965

Question 34

Tet Offensive

Answer 34

1968

Question 35

Beginning of Operation Phoenix

Answer 35

1968

Question 36

My Lai massacre

Answer 36

March 1968

Question 37

Start of Vietnamization - President Nixon

Answer 37

1968

Question 38

Nixon attacks Cambodia

Answer 38

1970

Question 39

Ceasefire of Vietnam War was signed

Answer 39

1973

Question 40

Russia defeated in Russo - Japan war

Answer 40

1905

Question 41

Bloody Sunday

Answer 41

Jan 1905

Question 42

Russian Revolution - No more tsars

Answer 42

1905

Question 43

Mutiny on Potemkin

Answer 43

1905

Question 44

October Manifesto

Answer 44

1905

Question 45

The Fundemental laws passed in Russia

Answer 45

1906

Question 46

First Duma established

Answer 46

1906

Question 47

Feb / March revolution

Answer 47

1917

Question 48

Nicolas 2 abdicates

Answer 48

feb/ march 1917

Question 49

Stolypin associanted

Answer 49

1911

Question 50

Russian inflation reaches 200%

Answer 50

1917

Question 51

Stalin blocks all road and rail links into West Berlin

Answer 51

1948