Cold War Trivia AQA

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Hint	Answer
Gave out the 'iron curtain' speech	Winston Churchill
Who wrote a LONG telegram	George Kennan
Year of the Hungarian Uprising	1956
Hungarian leader who tried to leave the Warsaw Pact	Imre Nagy
US senator who falsely accused many people of being communists	Joseph McCarthy
First man in space	Yuri Gagarin
Cuban leader before Fidel Castro	Fulgencio Batista
What M stands for in ICBM	Missle
Who said "Ich bin ein Berliner"	John Kennedy
Soviet leader during the Prague Spring	Leonid Brezhnev
Where the USA had to remove missiles from for missiles to be removed from Cuba	Turkey/Italy
Plane that Gary Powers flew in	U2 Spy plane
Country that the USSR invaded, cancelling SALT II	Afghanistan
Where is the Bay of Pigs	Cuba
Where did Stalin launch a blockade in 1948	Berlin
Name for the treaty between Communist China and the USSR	Treaty of Friendship
Conference that agreed that Berlin would be split into 4 occupied zones	Potsdam
Leader of North Korea during the Korean War	Kim il sung
Shortening of the 'Council for Mutual Economic Assistance'	Comecon
Year that the Vietnam war ended	1975