50 Cold War figures - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Imposed Soviet hegemony over Eastern Europe	Joseph Stalin	93%
Said an 'Iron curtain' was slamming down	Winston Churchill	85%
U.S. president who set up the CIA	Harry Truman	82%
The CIA may have planned to sabotage his cigars	Fidel Castro	81%
His dystopian novels warned against totalitarianism	George Orwell	79%
His ‘Little Red Book’ permeated a communist superpower	Mao Zedong	79%
Balkan communist leader who defied Soviet influence	Josip Tito	77%
Cosmonaut whose flight accelerated the space race	Yuri Gagarin	76%
American general whose aid plan propped up European democracies	George Marshall	74%
Declared himself a Berliner on Cold War's chilliest front line	John Kennedy	74%
Led his country's communist north to armed standoff on 38th parallel	Kim Il-sung	73%
Led his southeast Asian country in Cold War's biggest proxy conflict	Ho Chi Minh	69%
His 'red scare' Senate hearings tried to weed out communists	Joe McCarthy	68%
He went to China, upending US policy	Richard Nixon	64%
His “Star Wars” programme threatened new arms race near Cold War end	Ronald Reagan	63%
His reforms as economy declined could not avert Soviet collapse	Mikhail Gorbachev	62%
Soviet leader who sent Red Army into Afghanistan	Leonid Brezhnev	58%
Revolutionary pin-up shot dead in Bolivia	Che Guevara	57%
American general who urged US to nuke China during Korean war	Douglas MacArthur	57%
She said of the last Soviet leader: “We can do business together”	Margaret Thatcher	56%
Warned against a US "military-industrial complex"	Dwight Eisenhower	50%
World leader who served as a KGB spy in Cold War Dresden	Vladimir Putin	50%
Crystalised Cold War Mideast splits by nationalising Suez Canal	Gamal Abdul Nasser	48%
Brandished his shoe at the U.N. general assembly	Nikita Khrushchev	46%
'Solidarity' union leader who led his country after Cold War	Lech Walesa	41%
He installed a pro-West dictatorship that ruled Indonesia for decades	Suharto	40%
Maniacal scientist who learned to stop worrying and love the bomb	Dr. Strangelove	39%
American practitioner of realpolitik who sought Soviet detente	Henry Kissinger	38%
Saudi who helped West-backed rebels battle the Soviets in Afghanistan	Osama bin Laden	38%
Elected South American leader ousted by CIA-backed general Pinochet	Salvador Allende	37%
Warsaw Pact leader summarily executed as his regime fell in 1989	Nicolae Ceausescu	33%
French thinker who quit Communist Party after Hungary rising	Jean-Paul Sartre	32%
Reunified his country as the Cold War ended and iron curtain fell	Helmut Kohl	30%
Soviet secret policeman who killed and imprisoned millions	Lavrenty Beria	29%
His 'politics of grandeur' complicated West's Cold War ties	Charles de Gaulle	28%
He refused early release from 'Hanoi Hilton'	John McCain	28%
Soviet writer whose novels exposed Gulag prison system	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	27%
Brought free market reforms to communist power but no political relaxation	Deng Xiaoping	27%
Middle East president who gave USSR a Mediterranean naval base	Hafez al-Assad	26%
CIA accused of killing this leader to stop Congo turning communist	Patrice Lumumba	24%
His Cold War spy novels showed moral ambiguities of conflict	John Le Carre	23%
American surveillance pilot downed over USSR	Gary Powers	19%
East German leader who had the Berlin Wall built	Walter Ulbricht	16%
Chinese premier masterminded Beijing’s Cold War diplomacy	Zhou Enlai	16%
The KGB's 'third man' in MI6 before he defected to Moscow	Kim Philby	15%
Star Soviet dancer who defected in Paris	Rudolf Nureyev	15%
CIA chief who staged coups in Iran and Guatemala	Allen Dulles	13%
Marxist fugitive who kidnapped OPEC ministers	Carlos the Jackal	9%
Staged a communist coup in Ethiopia and declared "red terror"	Mengistu Haile Mariam	8%
Smuggled the West's nuclear secrets to Moscow	Klaus Fuchs	5%

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