Statistics for GCSE History - Cold War Key Dates

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Hungarian Uprising	1956	53%
Cuban missile crisis	1962	50%
Yalta conference (m)	February 1945	50%
Cominform	1947	42%
Comecon	1949	42%
Potsdam conference (m)	July-August 1945	42%
US developed their first atomic bomb	1945	39%
Creation of the Warsaw Pact	1955	36%
Soviets developed their first atomic bomb	1949	33%
Khrushchev became the Soviet leader	1956	33%
SU developed their hydrogen bomb	1953	31%
The Berlin Ultimatum	1958	31%
First hydrogen bomb developed by the US	1952	28%
Tehran conference (m)	November 1943	22%
Batista and his government were overthrown	1959	14%
Outer Space Treaty signed by US & SU	1967	8%
Creation on NATO (m)	April 1949	8%
Eisenhower became president of the USA (m)	January 1953	8%
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signed	1968	6%
Summit meeting in Vienna (m)	June 1961	3%
Summit meeting in Paris (m)	May 1960	3%
Berlin crisis	1948-1949	0%
Test Ban Treaty signed by US, SU & UK (m)	August 1963	0%
Long telegram (m&d)	February 22nd 1946	0%
Truman doctrine speech (m&d)	March 12th 1947	0%
Marshall aid established (m&d)	March 31at 1948	0%
Stalin died (m&d)	March 5th 1953	0%
Summit meeting in Geneva (m)	May 1959	0%
Soviets lifted the blockade (m&d)	May 9th 1949	0%
Summit meeting in Camp David (m)	September 1959	0%
Novikov telegram (m&d)	September 27th 1946	0%