Cold War Dates Quiz

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GCSE History (The Cold War) Quiz on Cold War Dates Quiz, created by Susanna Alsop on 24/01/2018.
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Question 1

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When was the Tehran Conference?
Answer
  • Nov 1943
  • June 1943
  • Oct - 1943

Question 2

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When was the Grand Alliance formed?
Answer
  • 1941
  • 1939
  • 1942

Question 3

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When was the end of WWII?
Answer
  • Nov 1945
  • May 1945
  • June 1945

Question 4

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When was the Warsaw Uprising?
Answer
  • 1945
  • 1944
  • 1943

Question 5

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When was the Kennan Long Telegram?
Answer
  • Feb 1945
  • Feb 1946
  • Jan 1946

Question 6

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When did the USA detonate atomic bombs over Japan?
Answer
  • 6th Aug 1945
  • 12th Aug 1945
  • 8th Aug 1945
  • 9th Aug 1945
  • 7th Aug 1945

Question 7

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When was the Yalta conference?
Answer
  • Jan 1944
  • Jan 1945
  • Feb 1945

Question 8

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In what year did Truman become US president after Roosevelt's death?
Answer
  • 1944
  • 1945
  • 1946

Question 9

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When was Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech?
Answer
  • Mar 1946
  • Mar 1945
  • Oct 1945

Question 10

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When was the Potsdam conference?
Answer
  • July/Aug 1945
  • Oct/Nov 1945
  • Sept/Oct 1945

Question 11

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What year did Clement Atlee become British Prime Minister?
Answer
  • 1944
  • 1945
  • 1946

Question 12

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When was a communist government elected in Poland?
Answer
  • Jan 1947
  • Jan 1946
  • Jul 1947

Question 13

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When was the Novikov Telegram?
Answer
  • Sept 1946
  • Oct 1946
  • Dec 1946

Question 14

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When was Cominform formed? (select month and year)
Answer
  • Jan
  • 1948
  • Apr
  • Jul
  • Aug
  • Sept
  • Nov
  • 1945
  • 1946
  • 1947

Question 15

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What year was Bizonia formed?
Answer
  • 1946
  • 1947
  • 1948

Question 16

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When was the Truman Doctrine announced?
Answer
  • Mar 1947
  • Mar 1948
  • Oct 1947
  • Oct 1948
  • Jun 1948
  • Jul 1947

Question 17

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When was the Marshall Plan announced?
Answer
  • Jun 1947
  • Jul 1947
  • Jun 1948
  • Jun 1946
  • Aug 1949

Question 18

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What year was a communist government elected in Hungary?
Answer
  • 1947
  • 1948
  • 1949
  • 1946

Question 19

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When was Trizonia formed?
Answer
  • 1947
  • 1948
  • 1949

Question 20

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When was the Deutschmark created?
Answer
  • Jul 1948
  • Jun 1948
  • Jul 1947
  • Oct 1948
  • Oct 1949

Question 21

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When did communists seize power in Czechoslovakia?
Answer
  • Feb 1948
  • Feb 1949
  • Mar 1950
  • Mar 1949

Question 22

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When did the Berlin Blockade begin?
Answer
  • Jun 1948
  • Jun 1949
  • Jul 1949
  • Aug 1947
  • Jul 1947
  • Sept 1948

Question 23

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When was Comecon formed? (select month and year)
Answer
  • Jan
  • Feb
  • May
  • Jul
  • Aug
  • 1949
  • 1948
  • 1950
  • 1947

Question 24

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When was NATO formed?
Answer
  • Apr 1949
  • Jun 1949
  • Jun 1948
  • Oct 1947
  • Aug 1949

Question 25

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What year did the Soviet Union develop the atomic bomb?
Answer
  • 1949
  • 1950
  • 1952
  • 1951

Question 26

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When was the FRG formed?
Answer
  • Apr 1950
  • Mar 1949
  • May 1949
  • Aug 1948
  • Jun 1948

Question 27

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When was the GDR formed?
Answer
  • Oct 1949
  • Nov 1950
  • Jan 1950
  • Jan 1949

Question 28

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When was the Berlin Blockade lifted? (select month and year)
Answer
  • Jan
  • May
  • Jun
  • Aug
  • Sept
  • 1948
  • 1949
  • 1950

Question 29

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When did the USA test the Hydrogen bomb?
Answer
  • 1952
  • 1950
  • 1948

Question 30

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What year did Stalin die?
Answer
  • 1953
  • 1952
  • 1955
  • 1949

Question 31

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What year did Eisenhower become US president?
Answer
  • 1953
  • 1952
  • 1954
  • 1948
  • 1950

Question 32

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What year did the Soviet Union test the hydrogen bomb?
Answer
  • 1953
  • 1951
  • 1954
  • 1949
  • 1950

Question 33

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What happened in 1955?
Answer
  • Warsaw Pact formed
  • Geneva Conference and Open Skies
  • Stalin dies
  • Soviet Union tests Hydrogen bomb
  • Hungarian Uprising

Question 34

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When did Khrushchev emerge as the effective leader of the Soviet Union?
Answer
  • 1956
  • 1955
  • 1953
  • 1957

Question 35

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What year was the Hungarian Uprising?
Answer
  • 1955
  • 1956
  • 1958
  • 1960

Question 36

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In what year did the USA test the ICBM?
Answer
  • 1956
  • 1957
  • 1959

Question 37

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In what year did the Soviet Union test the ICBM?
Answer
  • 1957
  • 1959
  • 1960

Question 38

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When did Khrushchev issue the Berlin Ultimatum?
Answer
  • 1958
  • 1959
  • 1960
  • 1957

Question 39

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What happened in 1964?
Answer
  • Johnson becomes US president
  • Brezhnev becomes leader of the Soviet Union
  • Paris Summit meeting
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Hotline set up between Washington and Moscow

Question 40

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When was the Geneva Summit meeting (1st One)?
Answer
  • May 1959
  • Jun 1959
  • May 1958
  • May 1957
  • Jun 1960

Question 41

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When was the Cuban revolution?
Answer
  • 1959
  • 1960
  • 1962

Question 42

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When was the Paris Summit meeting?
Answer
  • May 1960
  • Jul 1960
  • Aug 1960
  • Aug 1961
  • Aug 1959

Question 43

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When did Kennedy become US president?
Answer
  • 1960
  • 1961
  • 1962

Question 44

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When was the Bay of Pigs?
Answer
  • 1959
  • 1960
  • 1961
  • 1962

Question 45

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When did construction of the Berlin Wall Begin?
Answer
  • Aug 1961
  • Jul 1961
  • Jun 1960
  • Sept 1962

Question 46

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When was the Vienna Summit meeting?
Answer
  • Jul 1961
  • Jun 1961
  • Aug 1961
  • Nov 1961

Question 47

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When was the Cuban Missile Crisis? (select month and year)
Answer
  • Oct
  • Dec
  • Jan
  • Jul
  • Aug
  • 1963
  • 1961
  • 1960
  • 1962

Question 48

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When was a hotline set up between Washington and Moscow?
Answer
  • 1962
  • 1961
  • 1963

Question 49

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What year was the Outer Space Treaty?
Answer
  • 1965
  • 1966
  • 1967
  • 1969
  • 1970

Question 50

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What happened in 1968?
Answer
  • 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

Question 51

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When did Brezhnev visit Washington?
Answer
  • 1973
  • 1970
  • 1968

Question 52

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What year was SALT 1?
Answer
  • 1972
  • 1973
  • 1974
  • 1975

Question 53

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When did Nixon become US president?
Answer
  • 1970
  • 1969
  • 1968
  • 1972

Question 54

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When did Ford take over as US president?
Answer
  • 1974
  • 1975
  • 1972

Question 55

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What year were the Helsinki Accords?
Answer
  • 1973
  • 1975
  • 1978
  • 1980

Question 56

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When did Carter become US president?
Answer
  • 1977
  • 1976
  • 1978
  • 1980

Question 57

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What happened in 1980?
Answer
  • Carter Doctrine announced
  • Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
  • US boycott of Moscow games
  • Reagan becomes US president
  • Brezhnev dies

Question 58

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When was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
Answer
  • 1979
  • 1980
  • 1976
  • 1977

Question 59

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When did Reagan become US president?
Answer
  • 1981
  • 1982
  • 1980
  • 1984

Question 60

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In what year did Carter refuse to ratify SALT 2?
Answer
  • 1978
  • 1979
  • 1975
  • 1980

Question 61

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When did Brezhnev die?
Answer
  • 1980
  • 1981
  • 1982
  • 1983

Question 62

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In what year was SDI announced?
Answer
  • 1973
  • 1983
  • 1993

Question 63

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What happened in 1985?
Answer
  • Geneva summit meeting
  • Reykjavik summit meeting
  • Washington Summit meeting
  • Soviet boycott of Los Angeles Games
  • Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader
  • Brezhnev dies

Question 64

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What year was the Reykjavik summit meeting?
Answer
  • 1985
  • 1986
  • 1987

Question 65

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When was the Soviet boycott of Los Angeles Games?
Answer
  • 1983
  • 1984
  • 1985
  • 1988

Question 66

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When was the Moscow summit?
Answer
  • 1988
  • 1990
  • 1987
  • 1989

Question 67

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What happened in 1987?
Answer
  • Soviet boycott of Los Angeles Games
  • Reykjavik summit meeting
  • INF treaty
  • Washington Summit meeting
  • Issues of the INF treaty resolved

Question 68

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When were the issues of the INF treaty resolved?
Answer
  • 1989
  • 1988
  • 1985
  • 1990

Question 69

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When was the Malta Summit Meeting (the end of the cold war)?
Answer
  • 1988
  • 1989
  • 1991
  • 1990

Question 70

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In what year was the fall of the Berlin wall?
Answer
  • 1989
  • 1985
  • 1990
  • 1991

Question 71

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In 1990 several republics of the Soviet Union declare independence.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 72

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In what year do many of the satellite states break away?
Answer
  • 1989
  • 1990
  • 1991
  • 1995

Question 73

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In what year did Gorbachev fall from power and the Soviet Union dissolve?
Answer
  • 1991
  • 1993
  • 1995
  • 1999

Question 74

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When was the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact?
Answer
  • 1991
  • 1995
  • 1985
  • 1987
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