Statistics for Cold War Facts

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
An economic system in which the people as a whole theoretically own all natural resources, land, and methods of production	communism	93%
General Secretary of the Communist Party 1922-1952	Stalin	93%
An economic system in which individuals own private property and are motivated by competition and profit	capitalism	92%
The barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) to prevent emigration	Berlin Wall	91%
A military alliance between non-communist North American and European nations	NATO	91%
The first leader of the USSR	Lenin	88%
The year the USSR was dissolved	1991	86%
An ideological barrier between the Soviet Bloc and Western Europe	Iron Curtain	84%
A mutual defense treaty between eight communist European states	Warsaw Pact	83%
Gorbachev’s policy of government openness and transparency	glasnost	51%
The term for a war that is only fought by “client” states	proxy	45%
Gorbachev’s policy of "restructuring" the Soviet political and economic system	perestroika	40%
The "line" dividing North and South Korea	38th parallel	39%
This full name of this communist state was abbreviated to “USSR”	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	31%
A policy in which each side pushes the other to the brink of war	brinkmanship	27%
A doctrine asserting the Soviets’ right to intervene in any Eastern Bloc country where communism might be threatened	Brezhnev Doctrine	19%

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