KT2 dates

Question 1

khruschevs berlin ultimatum

yr

Answer 1

1958

Question 2

geneva summit

yr

Answer 2

1959

Question 3

camp david summit

yr

Answer 3

1959

Question 4

cuban revolution

yr

Answer 4

1959

Question 5

paris summit

yr

Answer 5

1960

Question 6

what had the berlin refugee crisis escalated to by 1958

Answer 6

20,000 refugees leaving east berlin for west a month

Question 7

when did they begin construction of the berlin wall

Answer 7

the night of august 12th 1961

Question 8

when does jfk become president

yr

Answer 8

1960-63

Question 9

when was eisenhower president

Answer 9

1953-60

Question 10

when and what was the bay of pigs invasion

yr

Answer 10

in 1961 1500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles landed at the Bay of Pigs with the aim of toppling Castro. they failed.

Question 11

when does castro become leader of cuba

Answer 11

janurary 1959

Question 12

fin. cuban missile crisis

Question 13

when did dubcek take control of czechoslovakia

Answer 13

1968

Question 14

what where dubcecks beliefs

Answer 14

communisum was the right political path but shouldnt make life miserable - socialism with a human face

Question 15

when was the prague spring + 2 reforms

Answer 15

april 1968 dubcek introuced reforms in czechoslovakia including
- relaxing cencorship and allowing criticism of the government
- increasing trade with the west