Assess learners' ability to recall and place major Cold War events (1945–1991) by year and briefly state their historical significance; include items such as the Yalta/Potsdam conferences, Iron Curtain speech, Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan, Berlin Blockade/Airlift, NATO formation, Chinese Revolution, Korean War, Hungarian Uprising, Sputnik, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War milestones, Prague Spring, détente/SALT treaties, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Solidarity movement, fall of the Berlin Wall, and the USSR's dissolution; use date-identification, sequencing, and short-response items.