Statistics for A-Z The Cold War

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Letter	Hint	Answer	% Correct
B	It was built in order to prevent people from fleeing East Berlin.	Berlin Wall	94%
C	An economic system based on government ownership and control of resources.	Communism	92%
F	Led the Cuban Revolution overthrowing Cuban President Batista in 1959.	Fidel Castro	88%
M	An economic and political philosophy named after its author German philosopher Karl Marx.	Marxism	86%
W	An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern Europe communist nations.	Warsaw Pact	86%
N	It is an alliance of democratic and western countries including much of Western Europe, Canada, and the United States.	NATO	84%
R	Famous for his economic policy called "Reaganomics" as well as for being a Hollywood movie star who became president.	Ronald Reagan	84%
A	A competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to manufacture the most nuclear weapons.	Arms Race	82%
V	A major conflict fought in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.	Vietnam War	82%
Q	British monarch on the throne during the Cold War.	Queen Elizabeth II	80%
I	Symbol used to describe the border between the communist and democratic countries of Europe.	Iron Curtain	78%
U	An organisation created to unite countries together to discuss peace and political matters.	United Nations	78%
K	The first major conflict of the Cold War.	Korean War	76%
E	Name given to the Soviet Union and its communist controlled states in Eastern Europe.	Eastern Bloc	73%
G	Policy introduced by Gorbachev that allowed for more openness in the Soviet government.	Glasnost	71%
H	A powerful form of nuclear technology that developed during the Arms Race.	Hydrogen bomb	71%
J	He is famous for the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban missile crisis.	JFK	69%
Y	The first man to orbit the Earth in the spacecraft Vostok I.	Yuri Gagarin	69%
D	A softening or easing of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.	Detente	63%
P	A liberal reform movement in socialist Czechoslovakia in 1968.	Prague Spring	55%
S	United States and the Soviet Union agreed to limit the number of nuclear weapons they made.	SALT	33%
T	A financial, political and military effort to stop the spread of communism.	Truman Doctrine	33%
L	A campaign to investigate and purge suspected homosexuals from the US government during the 1950s.	Lavender Scare	10%
X	Another term for the "Long Telegram".	X Article	6%
Z	General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) from 1931 to 1956.	Zachariadis	6%
O	The first test of a British atomic device.	Operation Hurricane	4%