Quiz Where East Meets West.
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Second World War: Eastern Front
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In what decade was the Berlin Airlift/Blockade?
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1940s
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1950s
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1960s
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Which Soviet Premier was in charge for the longest span of the Cold War, 1947-91?
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Stalin
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Brezhnev
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Khrushchev
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A Cold War spy-ring was uncovered at which university?
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Oxford
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Cambridge
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Exeter
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Gary Powers’ U2 spy-plane was shot down by Soviet air defences in 1960. Which country issued a formal apology for their part in the incident. (Powers had taken off from one of their airfields)?
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Canada
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Pakistan
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Turkey
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Where did dissidents ‘spring’ into action in 1968?
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Budapest
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Prague
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Warsaw
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That same year, saw the formal withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact of which erstwhile member?
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Albania
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Romania
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Yugoslavia
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Question of
For sixteen years, Cubans fought South Africans where?
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Angola
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Botswana
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PR Congo
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A democratically-elected Marxist government took power in which country in 1970?
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Benin
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Chile
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Loas
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Who was the first serving US President to step foot inside the Kremlin?
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Richard Nixon
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Jimmy Carter
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Ronald Reagan
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Who was in charge of East Germany the night the Berlin Wall fell?
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Erich Honecker
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Egon Krenz
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Willi Stoph
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