key dates!

Question 1

When was the Russian Revolution?

Answer 1

1917

Question 2

When was the Polish-Russian War?

Answer 2

1920

Question 3

Between which years did the Soviet Foreign policy last?

Answer 3

1922-41

Question 4

When did Joseph Stalin become leader of the USSR?

Answer 4

1929

Question 5

When was the Nazi-Soviet pact agreed on?

Answer 5

1939

Question 6

When was the Tehran Conference?

Answer 6

Nov 1943, Iran

Question 7

When was the Yalta Conference?

Answer 7

Feb 1945, Ukraine

Question 8

When was the Potsdam Conference?

Answer 8

May 1945, Germany

Question 9

When were the atomic bombs dropped on Japan by the USA?

Answer 9

1945

Question 10

When was the Hungarian Uprising?

Answer 10

1945-56

Question 11

Between which dates was Stalin practicing ‘Salami Tactics’?

Answer 11

1945-49

Question 12

Between which dates was ‘The Brain Drain’ occuring?

Answer 12

1945-61

Question 13

When was the ‘Long Telegram’ released?

Answer 13

1946 by George Kennan

Question 14

When was the Iron Curtain speech?

Answer 14

1946

Question 15

When was the Russian telegram released?

Answer 15

1946 by Nikolai Novikov

Question 16

When was the Truman Doctrine?

Answer 16

1947

Question 17

When was Cominform?

Answer 17

1947

Question 18

When did the Marshal Plan take place?

Answer 18

1948

Question 19

When was the Treaty of Brussels?

Answer 19

1948

Question 20

When was Comecon?

Answer 20

1949

Question 21

Between which years did the Arms Race take place?

Answer 21

1949-91

Question 22

When was the Berlin Blockade first started and ended?

Answer 22

started: 1948 and ended: May 1949

Question 23

When was Trizonia formally formed?

Answer 23

1949

Question 24

When did the Soviets test their first atomic bomb?

Answer 24

1949

Question 25

When were the USA and USSR's hydrogen bombs created?

Answer 25

USA: 1952 and USSR: 1953

Question 26

When did Stalin die?

Answer 26

1953

Question 27

Between what days did the Bay of Pigs invasion take place?

Answer 27

17th April - 20th April 1961

Question 28

When did the Cuban Missile Crisis take place?

Answer 28

October 1962

Question 29

When was the Checkpoint Charlie stand off?

Answer 29

Oct 1961

Question 30

When was the Berlin wall built?

Answer 30

1961

Question 31

When was the Paris Summit?

Answer 31

1960

Question 32

When was the Vienna Summit?

Answer 32

1961

Question 33

When was the Brain Drain

Answer 33

throughout the 1950s

Question 34

When was the Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 34

16th Oct 1962

Question 35

When was the Bay of Pigs

Answer 35

17th April 1961

Question 36

When was the ‘Ich Bin ein Berliner’ speech and by who?

Answer 36

June 1963, J.F. Kennedy

Question 37

When was Prague Spring?

Answer 37

January 1968

Question 38

When was the Geneva Summit

Answer 38

1955

Question 39

When did the Berlin wall fall?

Answer 39

9th Nov 1989

Question 40

When did the Soviet Union collapse?

Answer 40

26th Dec 1991

Question 41

When was the Afghan war?

Answer 41

1978-92

Question 42

When was Detente?

Answer 42

late 1960s - late 1970s

Question 43

When was SALT I

Answer 43

May 1972

Question 44

When was SALT II

Answer 44

May 1979

Question 45

When was the Berlin blockade?

Answer 45

June 1948 - 1949

Question 46

When was the Korean war?

Answer 46

1950-53

Question 47

When was was hot-line set up between the White house and Kremlin?

Answer 47

1963

Question 48

When dis Brezhnev come to power?

Answer 48

1964

Question 49

When did Nixon come to power?

Answer 49

1969

Question 50

When was the end of Detente?

Answer 50

1980

Question 51

When did Reagan come to power?

Answer 51

1981

Question 52

When did Gorbachev come to power?

Answer 52

1985

Question 53

When was Gorbachev’s ‘new thinking’?

Answer 53

1985, Glasnost and Perestroika

Question 54

When was the coup to overthrow Gorbachev?

Answer 54

1991, failed

Question 55

When was the end of the Cold War?

Answer 55

1991