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When was the Tehran conference?
November 1943
When was the Yalta conference?
February 1945
When was the Potsdam conference?
July - August 1945
How many German troops invaded the USSR?
4 million
When did Germany invade the USSR?
June 1941
How much in reparations did they plan for Germany to pay at Yalta?
$20 billion
When would the first meeting of the UN be?
25th April 1945
How many Soviet republics did Stalin suggest joining the UN?
16
Which year would Polish borders revert to?
1921
When did Roosevelt die?
April 1945
When did Germany surrender?
May 1945
When was the Treaty of Francisco?
June 1945
How many countries signed the Treaty of Fransisco?
51
What percentage of industrial equipment could the USSR take from other zones?
25%
When was Hiroshima?
6th August 1945
When was Nagasaki?
9th August 1945
The blast at Hiroshima was equivalent to how many tons of TNT?
12000
How many (estimated) Japanese died from the two atomic bombs?
120,000
When was the first successful test of the Soviet’s atomic bomb?
August 1949
When was the Long Telegram?
February 1946
When was the Novikov telegram?
September 1946
When was the Iron Curtain speech?
March 1946
When was the Truman Doctrine?
March 1947
How much money did Truman announce the US would give Greece and Turkey?
$400 million
How much aid did the USA give between 1948 and 1952?
$12.7 billion
How much aid was given by the USA before the Marshall Plan?
$13 billion
When was Cominform set up?
September 1947
When was Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform?
June 1948
When was Comecon formed?
January 1949
How did Bulgaria’s trade with Comecon members change from the 1930s to 1951?
10% - 90%
When was NATO established?
April 1949
When was Bizonia formed?
1947
When was Trizonia formed?
March 1948
When was the Deutschmark formed?
June 1948
When was the Berlin Blockade formed?
June 1948
How many tonnes of supplies could the Americans fly in each day?
1000
What was the peak month of the Berlin Airlift and how many tonnes of supplies were sent into Berlin?
January 1949 170,000
When was the Berlin blockade removed?
May 1949
When was the Federal Republic of Germany formed?
May 1949
When was the German Democratic Republic formed?
October 1949
When was West Germany allowed to join NATO?
May 1955
When was the Warsaw Pact formed?
May 1955
How many times more powerful was the hydrogen bomb than the atomic bomb?
1000
How far could the first ICBM fire?
Over 4500km
When did the USA test the hydrogen bomb?
November 1952
When did the USSR test the hydrogen bomb?
August 1953
When did the USA test the ICBM?
June 1957
When did the USSR test the ICBM?
August 1957
When did Eisenhower take office?
January 1953
When did Stalin die?
March 1953
When did Khrushchev emerge as the effective ruler of the USSR?
1956
When were Hungarians protesting about their lack of political freedoms?
1956
When did Rakosi fall from power?
June 1956
When did Nagy become prime minister of Hungary?
October 1956
When did Nagy announce Hungary is leaving the Warsaw Pact?
1st November 1956
When did Soviet troops reenter Budapest?
4th November 1956
How many tanks entered Budapest?
1000
How many Hungarians were killed in the Hungarian Uprising?
20000
When was Nagy’s execution?
June 1958
How many East Germans had crossed to the West by 1958?
3 million (1/6)
When was the Berlin Ultimatum?
November 1958
When was the Geneva Summit (1)?
May 1959
When was the Camp David Summit?
September 1959
When was the Paris Summit?
May 1960
When was the Vienna Summit?
June 1961
When did Kennedy become president?
January 1961
How much did Kennedy increase spending on American armed forces by after the Vienna Summit?
$2 billion
On one day in August 1961, how many East Germans crossed to the West?
40000
When was the Berlin Wall first built?
12th August 1961
How long was the Berlin Wall?
165km
How many people is it estimated died crossing the wall?
Over 130
When did Kennedy visit West Berlin?
1963
When was the Cuban Revolution?
January 1959
When did the Cuban government take over all land in Cuba owned by foreign nationals?
May 1959
When did Castro make an agreement with the USSR?
February 1960
How far was Cuba from the US mainland?
145km
When was the Bay of Pigs?
April 1961
How many Cuban exiles were in the Bay of Pigs?
1400
How many soldiers were waiting for the Cuban exiles?
20000
When did Khrushchev announce he would give arms to Cuba?
September 1961
When were the launch pads in Cuba pictured?
14th October 1962
When was the start of the Thirteen Days?
16th October 1962
When was the naval blockade around Cuba set up?
22nd October 1962
When did the Soviet ships reach the blockade?
24th October 1962
When did Khrushchev offer to remove missiles from Cuba?
26th October 1962
When did Khrushchev accept Kennedy’s agreement with his first offer to remove the missiles?
28th October 1962
When was the hotline set up?
June 1963
When was the Test Ban Treaty?
August 1963
When was the Outer Space Treaty?
1967
When was the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
1968
When was Dubcek elected?
January 1968
When were the Prague Spring reforms introduced?
April 1968
When did Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia?
August 1968
How many Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia?
500,000
When was Dubcek dismissed?
1969
When was the Brezhnev Doctrine?
September 1968
When was Willy Brandt elected?
1969
When was SALT 1?
May 1972
How many sites were ABMs allowed at after the ABM Treaty? And how many were allowed at each site?
2 100
How many ICBMs were the USA and the USSR allowed under the Interim Treaty?
1054 1618
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