Cold War dates
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Write the year the event happened.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Truman Doctrine is announced | 1947 |
| The Berlin Blockade begins | 1948 |
| NATO is founded | 1949 |
| The Korean War begins | 1950 |
| The Warsaw Pact is founded | 1955 |
| The Hungarian Revolution is crushed | 1956 |
| The Soviet Union launches Sputnik | 1957 |
| The Berlin Wall is built | 1961 |
| The Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 |
| The Warsaw Pact crushes the Prague Spring | 1968 |
| The United States lands on the Moon | 1969 |
| The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan | 1979 |
| Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union | 1985 |
| The Chernobyl disaster | 1986 |
| The Berlin Wall falls | 1989 |
| The Soviet Union dissolves | 1991 |
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We checked the answers against these references.
- Wikipedia: Truman Doctrine
- Wikipedia: Berlin Blockade
- Wikipedia: North Atlantic Treaty
- Wikipedia: Korean War
- Wikipedia: Warsaw Pact
- Wikipedia: Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- Wikipedia: Sputnik 1
- Wikipedia: Berlin Wall
- Wikipedia: Cuban Missile Crisis
- Wikipedia: Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
- Wikipedia: Apollo 11
- Wikipedia: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
- Wikipedia: Mikhail Gorbachev
- Wikipedia: Chernobyl disaster
- Wikipedia: Fall of the Berlin Wall
- Wikipedia: Dissolution of the Soviet Union