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