Indian History Quiz: World History: The Cold War, Decolonisation and the Non-Aligned Movement

Churchill, by then out of office, spoke at Westminster College in Fulton on 5 March 1946 and said that an iron curtain had descended across the continent from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic.

The North Atlantic Treaty was signed at Washington on 4 April 1949 by twelve countries, during the Berlin blockade, and bound its members to treat an attack on one as an attack on all.

The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance was signed in the Polish capital on 14 May 1955, which is why the alliance carries that city's name, although its forces were commanded from Moscow.

The Asian-African Conference met at Bandung in Indonesia in April 1955 with twenty-nine newly independent countries, condemned colonialism and racialism, and endorsed the principles of peaceful coexistence; it is often called the forerunner of the Non-Aligned Movement.

The first summit of non-aligned countries met at Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, in September 1961, with twenty-five participating countries, and Jawaharlal Nehru, Josip Broz Tito, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Sukarno and Kwame Nkrumah are regarded as the movement's founders.

The five principles were written into the preamble of the agreement on trade and intercourse between India and the Tibet region of China, signed on 29 April 1954 by Jawaharlal Nehru and Zhou Enlai.

Krishna Menon, India's best known diplomat of the period and later Defence Minister, is credited with coining the expression non-alignment in a United Nations speech in 1953; he is also remembered for the longest speech ever made at the Security Council, on Kashmir.

The Gold Coast became independent as Ghana on 6 March 1957 under Kwame Nkrumah, the first colony in sub-Saharan Africa to do so, and Nkrumah became a leading voice of pan-Africanism and a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement.

The wall was opened and began to be broken up on 9 November 1989, the single most memorable image of the end of the Cold War.

In October 1962 American aerial photographs revealed Soviet missile sites under construction in Cuba; President John F. Kennedy ordered a naval quarantine of the island and, after thirteen days, Nikita Khrushchev agreed to withdraw the missiles, the United States undertaking not to invade Cuba.