Unit 1 - The Emergence of the Superpowers (timeline questions)

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When was the Yalta conference?
February 1945
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When did Germany surrender?
May 1945
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When was the Potsdam conference?
July-August 1945
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When did Churchill give his 'Iron Curtain' speech?
March 1946
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When did Kennan send his 'Long' telegram?
1946
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When was Bizonia formed?
January 1947
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When was the Truman Doctrine announced?
March 1947
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When was the Marshall Plan announced and how much money was involved?
June 1947, $13.5bn
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When was Cominform founded?
December 1947
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When did the Berlin Blockade begin?
June 1948
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When was the Federal Republic of Germany established and which side was it?
September 1949, West Germany
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When was the People's Democratic Republic established and which side was it?
October 1949, East Germany
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When was Comecon set up?
January 1949
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When was NATO formed?
April 1949
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When was the Berlin Blockade lifted?
May 1949
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What were the dates of the Korean War?
1950-1953
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When was NSC-68 published?
1950
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When was the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship formed?
1950
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When did Stalin die?
March 1953
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When did the USSR detonate the Hydrogen bomb and how many months after the USA?
August 1953, 10 months
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When was the Austrian State Treaty signed?
January-February 1954
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When was the Warsaw Pact created?
May 1955
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When and where did Khrushchev give his 'Secret' speech?
February 1956, 20th Party Congress
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When was the Hungarian Revolution
October-November 1956
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When was Sputnik launched and by which county?
1957, Soviet Union
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When did Khrushchev deliver his ultimatum?
November 1958
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When was the Paris Peace Summit and why did it collapse?
1960, the U-2 crisis
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When was the Berlin Wall erected?
August 1961
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When was the Bay of Pigs fiasco?
1961
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When was the Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
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