November Factual Test

Question 1

Where did the Big Three meet in February 1945?

Answer 1

Yalta

Question 2

Who succeeded Roosevelt as United States President in 1945?

Answer 2

Truman

Question 3

Which of the following countries was not a founding memebr of NATO?

Answer 3

Spain

Question 4

In which year did Joseph Stalin die?

Answer 4

1953

Question 5

In which month of 1945 was the Potsdam conference?

Answer 5

August

Question 6

Who wrote the famous “Long Telegram” in February 1946?

Answer 6

Kennan

Question 7

Where did civil was reignite in March 1946?

Answer 7

Greece

Question 8

From where did British soldiers withdraw in March 1946?

Answer 8

Iran

Question 9

In which year did George Marshall noouce his plan for European reconstruction

Answer 9

1947

Question 10

Which country was expelled from Cominform in June 1948?

Answer 10

Yugoslavia

Question 11

Who became the first Chancellor of the Federal Republc of Germany in 1949?

Answer 11

Adenauer

Question 12

Who became US President in January 1953?

Answer 12

Eisenhower

Question 13

Which country became the world’d third nuclear power in October 1952?

Answer 13

Britain

Question 14

When did Churchill male his famous “Iron Curtain” speech?=

Answer 14

March 1946

Question 15

Edvard Benes was REsident of which country?

Answer 15

Czechoslovakia

Question 16

Who was US Secretary of State from January 1947 to January 1949?

Answer 16

George Marshall

Question 17

In which month of 1948 did the Berlin Blockade begin?

Answer 17

June

Question 18

Rigged ekections where led to thw communists taking power in January 1947?

Answer 18

Polan

Question 19

When was NATO founded?

Answer 19

1949

Question 20

What was created at the Treaty of Paris in April 1951?

Answer 20

European Coal and Steel Community

Question 21

The Schuman Declaration of May 1950 envisaged a united…?

Answer 21

Europe

Question 22

The state of East Germany was declarated in October 1949 as …?

Answer 22

German Democratic Republic

Question 23

In which year did the USSR test its first atomic bomb?

Answer 23

1949

Question 24

When was the Warsaw Pact established?

Answer 24

1955

Question 25

Who eventually replaced Stalin as Soviet leader?

Answer 25

Khrushchev

Question 26

Where was there rising agaisnt Soviet rule in 1956?

Answer 26

Hungary

Question 27

The Hungaruan communist leader executes in June 1958?

Answer 27

Imre Nagy

Question 28

Where in Poland in 1956 was there a mass protest of workers?

Answer 28

Poznán

Question 29

In which year did Germany join NATO?

Answer 29

1955

Question 30

In which year was the Warsaw PAct formaed

Answer 30

1955

Question 31

What was the EDC Treaty signed in May 1952?

Answer 31

European Defence Community

Question 32

Allied occupation finally ended for which country in May 1955?

Answer 32

Austria

Question 33

Where in Austria was a European conference held in June 1955 that deicded to extend European..

Answer 33

Messina