Krushchev Dates

Question 1

Virgin Land Campaign began

Answer 1

1954

Question 2

KGB formed, what happened to MVD?

Answer 2

1954, MVD turned into the body responsible for normal policing

Question 3

Khrushchev met with Tito (defrosting of relationship with Yugoslavia)

Answer 3

1955

Question 4

Warsaw Pact, what was it?

Answer 4

May 1955, soviet military defence treaty

Question 5

First hydrogen bomb developed

Answer 5

1955

Question 6

20th party congress and secret speech

Answer 6

February 1956

Question 7

Comniform ended

Answer 7

September 1956

Question 8

Polish thaw- Polish granted greater freedoms

Answer 8

October 1956

Question 9

Hungarian uprising

Answer 9

October-November 1956

Question 10

Sovnarkoz reform, what was it?

Answer 10

1957, organisation to manage separate economic region

Question 11

Sputnik launched into space

Answer 11

1957

Question 12

8 hour working day

Answer 12

1958

Question 13

Khrushchev visits America

Answer 13

1959

Question 14

Khrushchev maize growing campaign launched

Answer 14

1959

Question 15

Shoe banging on table

Answer 15

1960

Question 16

Berlin Wall

Answer 16

1961

Question 17

Workers riots in Novochercassk

Answer 17

1962

Question 18

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 18

November 1962

Question 19

Test treaty ban- signed by UK, Soviet and US- increased tensions with China

Answer 19

1963

Question 20

Agricultural crisis generated by soil erosion in the ‘virgin lands’

Answer 20

1963

Question 21

Fall of Khrushchev

Answer 21

1964

Question 22

US U2 plane shot down

Answer 22

May 1960