Q.1.
In which city was the agreement signed which brought an end to French intervention in Indo-China, and divided Vietnam into two parts?
Q.2.
Which Central European country was occupied by the victorious states from the Second World War until 1955, when a mutual withdrawal was arranged: on condition that the state concerned should remain neutral?
Q.3.
Which country's membership of NATO in 1955 infuriated the USSR and its allies, leading to the setting up of the Warsaw Pact?
Q.4.
Which Soviet leader authorised Russian forces to enter Hungary in the autumn of 1956 to put down a "counter revolution"?
Q.5.
Which Hungarian leader was captured by invading Soviet forces in 1956, and later executed?
Q.6.
In 1956 the Egyptian leader announced the nationalisation of the Suez Canal. Who was he?
Q.7.
Which British prime minister used force, together with France, to attempt to recover the Canal?
Q.8.
Which American president refused to support British and French policy over Suez, complaining that he had not been consulted?
Q.9.
What name is given to the speech delivered to the Russian Communist Party in 1956, listing and describing Stalin's crimes against his own people?
Q.10.
Which Russian name is given to the first Russian satellite sent into space to orbit the earth in 1957, thus stealing a march on the Americans?