AQA History - Aspects of International Relations, 1945-2004 Quiz

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When was the Yalta conference held?
February 1945
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When was the Potsdam conference held?
July-Aug 1945
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When was the Marshall Plan/ERP implemented?
June 1947
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When did Stalin implement the Berlin Blockade?
June 1948
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When did Stalin establish Comecon in retaliation to the Marshall plan?
Jan 1949
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When was the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) established?
April 1949
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When was the Berlin Blockade lifted?
May 1949
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When were the Federal Republic of Germany (West) and the Democratic Republic of Germany (East) established?
Sept/Oct 1949
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In what year did Josef Stalin die?
March 1953
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In what years did the Korean War begin and end?
1950-1953
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In what year did the USA explode the Thermonuclear (Hydrogen) bomb?
1951
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In what year did the USSR explode the Thermonuclear (Hydrogen) bomb?
1953
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When was the Austrian State Treaty signed?
1954
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When was the Warsaw Pact created in response to NATO?
1955
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In what year was the Berlin Wall constructed?
1961
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When was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Oct-Nov 1962
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When was the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed?
Aug 1963
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In what year was Nikita Khrushchev removed from office?
1964
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In what year did the USA begin to attack Vietnam?
1965
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In what year did Willy Brandt become Chancellor of West Germany?
1969
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In what year was SALT I signed?
1972
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When was the Quadripartite treaty on Berlin signed?
1971
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When was the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty signed?
1972
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When was the Helsinki Final Act signed?
1975
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When was SALT II signed?
1979
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When did the USSR invade Afghanistan?
25 Dec 1979
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When did the Polish Solidarnosc (Solidarity) movement begin?
1980
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When were the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) held?
1982
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When did Leonid Brezhnev die?
1982
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In what year did Reagan give his 'evil empire' speech and announce the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) programme?
1983
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In what year did Mikhail Gorbachev become General Secretary of the Communist Party and Leader of the Soviet Union?
1985
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When was the Reykjavik summit?
Oct 1986
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In what year did the USSR begin the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan?
1986
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In what year did Gorbachev announce the drastic reduction in Soviet armed forces?
1988
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When did the Berlin wall come down?
Nov 1989
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In what year did Saddam Hussein/Iraq invade Kuwait?
1990
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In what year was Germany reuinted as the Federal Republic of Germany?
1990
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When was operation Desert Shield launched?
Jan 1991
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When was the Warsaw Pact dissolved?
March 1991
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When did Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia and fighting break out?
June 1991
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When was the USSR formally dissolved
Dec 1991
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Genocide in which country ended in April 1994:
Rwanda
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What happened in Srebrenica in July 1995?
Massacre
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In what year did fighting erupt in Kosovo?
1998
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On what date was the USA attacked by Islamic terrorists?
9 Sept 2001
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In what year did the USA invade Afghanistan?
2001
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In what year did the US and UK invade Iraq?
2003
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