Khrushchev

Question 1

Khrushchev’s rise to power

Answer 1

1954-56

Question 2

Virgin Land Campaign begins

Answer 2

1954

Question 3

KGB formed with MVD turned into normal policing

Answer 3

1954

Question 4

Khrushchev met with Tito

Answer 4

1955

Question 5

Warsaw Pact

Answer 5

1955

Question 6

First hydrogen bomb developed

Answer 6

1955

Question 7

20th Party Congress and Secret Speech

Answer 7

1956

Question 8

Cominform ended

Answer 8

1956

Question 9

Polish thaw (granted greater freedoms)

Answer 9

October 1956

Question 10

Hungarian uprising

Answer 10

October-November 1956

Question 11

Sovnarkoz reform

Answer 11

1957

Question 12

Sputnik

Answer 12

1957

Question 13

8 hour working day

Answer 13

1958

Question 14

Khrushchev visits America

Answer 14

1959

Question 15

Khrushchev’s maize growing campaign launched

Answer 15

1959

Question 16

Shoe banging on table during UN general assembly meeting

Answer 16

1960

Question 17

U2 spy plane shot down

Answer 17

May 1960

Question 18

Summit meeting with US (Khrushchev storms out)

Answer 18

1960

Question 19

Berlin Wall

Answer 19

1961

Question 20

Yuri Gagarin dent into space

Answer 20

12th April 1961

Question 21

Workers riots in Novochercassk

Answer 21

1962

Question 22

Cuban missile crisis

Answer 22

November 1962

Question 23

Test treaty ban

Answer 23

1963

Question 24

Agricultural crisis due to soil erosion from Virgin Land campaign

Answer 24

1963

Question 25

Fall of Khrushchev

Answer 25

1964