| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| C) This cuban dictator deposes ^^ in 1959. | Castro | 92%
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| E) This man is elected the 34th president if the USA. | Eisenhower | 84%
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| W) _____ pact, Soviet response to the NATO alliance. | Warsaw | 84%
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| L) St Petersburg, prior to 1991. | Leningrad | 75%
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| T) Island to where the chinese nationalists fled the Peoples Army of China. | Taiwan | 74%
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| X) Malcolm _ prominent member of the Nation of Islam. | X | 73%
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| I) '... An ___ _______ has descended on europe' famous quote from Winston Churchill. | Iron Curtain | 72%
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| M) Name of the massive US investment to rebuild Europe after WW2. | Marshall plan | 70%
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| A) Berlin ________, American led action to relieve Berlin following Soviet land blockade. | Airlift | 68%
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| H) Matyas Rakosi becomes prime minister of this country in 1952. | Hungary | 68%
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| Y) ____ Gagarin, the first human in space. | Yuri | 65%
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| O) 'Father of the atomic bomb' | Oppenheimer | 61%
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| G) Gorbachev announces this policy of openess and transparency. | Glasnost | 59%
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| K) This man succeeds Stalin as Secretary General of the Soviet Union. | Khrushchev | 59%
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| Q) This dynasty collapses in China leading to the civil war in which the communists prevail. | Qing | 53%
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| R) Hysteria in the US over the percieved tbreat by communism ___ _____. | Red scare | 53%
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| S) The fall of/liberation of _______, by the Peoples Army of Vietnam in 1975 marks the end of the vietnam war. | Saigon | 53%
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| U) An international diplomatic crisis erupts when this spy plane is shot down over Soviet territory. | U-2 | 53%
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| D) Nixons attempted to reduce tensions with the comminist world. | Détente | 50%
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| B) This cuban dictator wins an uncontested election in 1954. | Batista | 49%
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| F) _________ revolution, revolution that preceeded the October revolution by the Bolsheviks. | February | 46%
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| P) ______ ______ period of Czechoslovakian liberalisation, soon crushed by the USSR and her allies. | Prague Spring | 46%
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| N) Egyptian president who nationalised the Suez Canal. | Nasser | 37%
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| V) _________ revolution, peaceful protests that lead to the overthrow of the communist government in Czechoslovakia. | Velvet | 30%
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| Z) Commander in chief of Soviet forces in WW2. | Zhukov | 27%
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| J) Carlos the ______, marxist/Leninist terrorist of the 70s and 80s. | Jackal | 18%
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