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Cold War Dates Quiz

Question 1 of 74

1

When was the Tehran Conference?

Select one of the following:

  • Nov 1943

  • June 1943

  • Oct - 1943

Explanation

Question 2 of 74

1

When was the Grand Alliance formed?

Select one of the following:

  • 1941

  • 1939

  • 1942

Explanation

Question 3 of 74

1

When was the end of WWII?

Select one of the following:

  • Nov 1945

  • May 1945

  • June 1945

Explanation

Question 4 of 74

1

When was the Warsaw Uprising?

Select one of the following:

  • 1945

  • 1944

  • 1943

Explanation

Question 5 of 74

1

When was the Kennan Long Telegram?

Select one of the following:

  • Feb 1945

  • Feb 1946

  • Jan 1946

Explanation

Question 6 of 74

1

When did the USA detonate atomic bombs over Japan?

Select one or more of the following:

  • 6th Aug 1945

  • 12th Aug 1945

  • 8th Aug 1945

  • 9th Aug 1945

  • 7th Aug 1945

Explanation

Question 7 of 74

1

When was the Yalta conference?

Select one of the following:

  • Jan 1944

  • Jan 1945

  • Feb 1945

Explanation

Question 8 of 74

1

In what year did Truman become US president after Roosevelt's death?

Select one of the following:

  • 1944

  • 1945

  • 1946

Explanation

Question 9 of 74

1

When was Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech?

Select one of the following:

  • Mar 1946

  • Mar 1945

  • Oct 1945

Explanation

Question 10 of 74

1

When was the Potsdam conference?

Select one of the following:

  • July/Aug 1945

  • Oct/Nov 1945

  • Sept/Oct 1945

Explanation

Question 11 of 74

1

What year did Clement Atlee become British Prime Minister?

Select one of the following:

  • 1944

  • 1945

  • 1946

Explanation

Question 12 of 74

1

When was a communist government elected in Poland?

Select one of the following:

  • Jan 1947

  • Jan 1946

  • Jul 1947

Explanation

Question 13 of 74

1

When was the Novikov Telegram?

Select one of the following:

  • Sept 1946

  • Oct 1946

  • Dec 1946

Explanation

Question 14 of 74

1

When was Cominform formed? (select month and year)

Select one or more of the following:

  • Jan

  • 1948

  • Apr

  • Jul

  • Aug

  • Sept

  • Nov

  • 1945

  • 1946

  • 1947

Explanation

Question 15 of 74

1

What year was Bizonia formed?

Select one of the following:

  • 1946

  • 1947

  • 1948

Explanation

Question 16 of 74

1

When was the Truman Doctrine announced?

Select one of the following:

  • Mar 1947

  • Mar 1948

  • Oct 1947

  • Oct 1948

  • Jun 1948

  • Jul 1947

Explanation

Question 17 of 74

1

When was the Marshall Plan announced?

Select one of the following:

  • Jun 1947

  • Jul 1947

  • Jun 1948

  • Jun 1946

  • Aug 1949

Explanation

Question 18 of 74

1

What year was a communist government elected in Hungary?

Select one of the following:

  • 1947

  • 1948

  • 1949

  • 1946

Explanation

Question 19 of 74

1

When was Trizonia formed?

Select one of the following:

  • 1947

  • 1948

  • 1949

Explanation

Question 20 of 74

1

When was the Deutschmark created?

Select one of the following:

  • Jul 1948

  • Jun 1948

  • Jul 1947

  • Oct 1948

  • Oct 1949

Explanation

Question 21 of 74

1

When did communists seize power in Czechoslovakia?

Select one of the following:

  • Feb 1948

  • Feb 1949

  • Mar 1950

  • Mar 1949

Explanation

Question 22 of 74

1

When did the Berlin Blockade begin?

Select one of the following:

  • Jun 1948

  • Jun 1949

  • Jul 1949

  • Aug 1947

  • Jul 1947

  • Sept 1948

Explanation

Question 23 of 74

1

When was Comecon formed? (select month and year)

Select one or more of the following:

  • Jan

  • Feb

  • May

  • Jul

  • Aug

  • 1949

  • 1948

  • 1950

  • 1947

Explanation

Question 24 of 74

1

When was NATO formed?

Select one of the following:

  • Apr 1949

  • Jun 1949

  • Jun 1948

  • Oct 1947

  • Aug 1949

Explanation

Question 25 of 74

1

What year did the Soviet Union develop the atomic bomb?

Select one of the following:

  • 1949

  • 1950

  • 1952

  • 1951

Explanation

Question 26 of 74

1

When was the FRG formed?

Select one of the following:

  • Apr 1950

  • Mar 1949

  • May 1949

  • Aug 1948

  • Jun 1948

Explanation

Question 27 of 74

1

When was the GDR formed?

Select one of the following:

  • Oct 1949

  • Nov 1950

  • Jan 1950

  • Jan 1949

Explanation

Question 28 of 74

1

When was the Berlin Blockade lifted? (select month and year)

Select one or more of the following:

  • Jan

  • May

  • Jun

  • Aug

  • Sept

  • 1948

  • 1949

  • 1950

Explanation

Question 29 of 74

1

When did the USA test the Hydrogen bomb?

Select one of the following:

  • 1952

  • 1950

  • 1948

Explanation

Question 30 of 74

1

What year did Stalin die?

Select one of the following:

  • 1953

  • 1952

  • 1955

  • 1949

Explanation

Question 31 of 74

1

What year did Eisenhower become US president?

Select one of the following:

  • 1953

  • 1952

  • 1954

  • 1948

  • 1950

Explanation

Question 32 of 74

1

What year did the Soviet Union test the hydrogen bomb?

Select one of the following:

  • 1953

  • 1951

  • 1954

  • 1949

  • 1950

Explanation

Question 33 of 74

1

What happened in 1955?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Warsaw Pact formed

  • Geneva Conference and Open Skies

  • Stalin dies

  • Soviet Union tests Hydrogen bomb

  • Hungarian Uprising

Explanation

Question 34 of 74

1

When did Khrushchev emerge as the effective leader of the Soviet Union?

Select one of the following:

  • 1956

  • 1955

  • 1953

  • 1957

Explanation

Question 35 of 74

1

What year was the Hungarian Uprising?

Select one of the following:

  • 1955

  • 1956

  • 1958

  • 1960

Explanation

Question 36 of 74

1

In what year did the USA test the ICBM?

Select one of the following:

  • 1956

  • 1957

  • 1959

Explanation

Question 37 of 74

1

In what year did the Soviet Union test the ICBM?

Select one of the following:

  • 1957

  • 1959

  • 1960

Explanation

Question 38 of 74

1

When did Khrushchev issue the Berlin Ultimatum?

Select one of the following:

  • 1958

  • 1959

  • 1960

  • 1957

Explanation

Question 39 of 74

1

What happened in 1964?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Johnson becomes US president

  • Brezhnev becomes leader of the Soviet Union

  • Paris Summit meeting

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Hotline set up between Washington and Moscow

Explanation

Question 40 of 74

1

When was the Geneva Summit meeting (1st One)?

Select one of the following:

  • May 1959

  • Jun 1959

  • May 1958

  • May 1957

  • Jun 1960

Explanation

Question 41 of 74

1

When was the Cuban revolution?

Select one of the following:

  • 1959

  • 1960

  • 1962

Explanation

Question 42 of 74

1

When was the Paris Summit meeting?

Select one of the following:

  • May 1960

  • Jul 1960

  • Aug 1960

  • Aug 1961

  • Aug 1959

Explanation

Question 43 of 74

1

When did Kennedy become US president?

Select one of the following:

  • 1960

  • 1961

  • 1962

Explanation

Question 44 of 74

1

When was the Bay of Pigs?

Select one of the following:

  • 1959

  • 1960

  • 1961

  • 1962

Explanation

Question 45 of 74

1

When did construction of the Berlin Wall Begin?

Select one of the following:

  • Aug 1961

  • Jul 1961

  • Jun 1960

  • Sept 1962

Explanation

Question 46 of 74

1

When was the Vienna Summit meeting?

Select one of the following:

  • Jul 1961

  • Jun 1961

  • Aug 1961

  • Nov 1961

Explanation

Question 47 of 74

1

When was the Cuban Missile Crisis? (select month and year)

Select one or more of the following:

  • Oct

  • Dec

  • Jan

  • Jul

  • Aug

  • 1963

  • 1961

  • 1960

  • 1962

Explanation

Question 48 of 74

1

When was a hotline set up between Washington and Moscow?

Select one of the following:

  • 1962

  • 1961

  • 1963

Explanation

Question 49 of 74

1

What year was the Outer Space Treaty?

Select one of the following:

  • 1965

  • 1966

  • 1967

  • 1969

  • 1970

Explanation

Question 50 of 74

1

What happened in 1968?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Brezhnev Doctrine

  • Carter Doctrine

  • Outer Space Treaty

  • Warsaw pact troops put down the Prague Spring

  • Nuclear non-proliferation treaty

  • SALT 1

  • Nixon becomes US president

Explanation

Question 51 of 74

1

When did Brezhnev visit Washington?

Select one of the following:

  • 1973

  • 1970

  • 1968

Explanation

Question 52 of 74

1

What year was SALT 1?

Select one of the following:

  • 1972

  • 1973

  • 1974

  • 1975

Explanation

Question 53 of 74

1

When did Nixon become US president?

Select one of the following:

  • 1970

  • 1969

  • 1968

  • 1972

Explanation

Question 54 of 74

1

When did Ford take over as US president?

Select one of the following:

  • 1974

  • 1975

  • 1972

Explanation

Question 55 of 74

1

What year were the Helsinki Accords?

Select one of the following:

  • 1973

  • 1975

  • 1978

  • 1980

Explanation

Question 56 of 74

1

When did Carter become US president?

Select one of the following:

  • 1977

  • 1976

  • 1978

  • 1980

Explanation

Question 57 of 74

1

What happened in 1980?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Carter Doctrine announced

  • Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

  • US boycott of Moscow games

  • Reagan becomes US president

  • Brezhnev dies

Explanation

Question 58 of 74

1

When was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?

Select one of the following:

  • 1979

  • 1980

  • 1976

  • 1977

Explanation

Question 59 of 74

1

When did Reagan become US president?

Select one of the following:

  • 1981

  • 1982

  • 1980

  • 1984

Explanation

Question 60 of 74

1

In what year did Carter refuse to ratify SALT 2?

Select one of the following:

  • 1978

  • 1979

  • 1975

  • 1980

Explanation

Question 61 of 74

1

When did Brezhnev die?

Select one of the following:

  • 1980

  • 1981

  • 1982

  • 1983

Explanation

Question 62 of 74

1

In what year was SDI announced?

Select one of the following:

  • 1973

  • 1983

  • 1993

Explanation

Question 63 of 74

1

What happened in 1985?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Geneva summit meeting

  • Reykjavik summit meeting

  • Washington Summit meeting

  • Soviet boycott of Los Angeles Games

  • Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader

  • Brezhnev dies

Explanation

Question 64 of 74

1

What year was the Reykjavik summit meeting?

Select one of the following:

  • 1985

  • 1986

  • 1987

Explanation

Question 65 of 74

1

When was the Soviet boycott of Los Angeles Games?

Select one of the following:

  • 1983

  • 1984

  • 1985

  • 1988

Explanation

Question 66 of 74

1

When was the Moscow summit?

Select one of the following:

  • 1988

  • 1990

  • 1987

  • 1989

Explanation

Question 67 of 74

1

What happened in 1987?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Soviet boycott of Los Angeles Games

  • Reykjavik summit meeting

  • INF treaty

  • Washington Summit meeting

  • Issues of the INF treaty resolved

Explanation

Question 68 of 74

1

When were the issues of the INF treaty resolved?

Select one of the following:

  • 1989

  • 1988

  • 1985

  • 1990

Explanation

Question 69 of 74

1

When was the Malta Summit Meeting (the end of the cold war)?

Select one of the following:

  • 1988

  • 1989

  • 1991

  • 1990

Explanation

Question 70 of 74

1

In what year was the fall of the Berlin wall?

Select one of the following:

  • 1989

  • 1985

  • 1990

  • 1991

Explanation

Question 71 of 74

1

In 1990 several republics of the Soviet Union declare independence.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 72 of 74

1

In what year do many of the satellite states break away?

Select one of the following:

  • 1989

  • 1990

  • 1991

  • 1995

Explanation

Question 73 of 74

1

In what year did Gorbachev fall from power and the Soviet Union dissolve?

Select one of the following:

  • 1991

  • 1993

  • 1995

  • 1999

Explanation

Question 74 of 74

1

When was the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact?

Select one of the following:

  • 1991

  • 1995

  • 1985

  • 1987

Explanation

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