In 1969, which African nation changed its name to the People's Republic of the Congo, adopting a Marxist-Leninist state?

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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01Who served as the U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, overseeing the escalation in Vietnam?
02What was the name of the unmanned NASA probe that executed the first controlled, soft landing on the Moon in 1966?
03Which film by Federico Fellini won the Palme d'Or at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival?
04The "Year of Africa" in 1960 saw 17 nations gain independence. Which was the most populous among them?
05What was the official codename for the failed 1961 CIA-sponsored invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs?
06What was the final song performed by The Beatles during their last public concert on the Apple Corps rooftop in 1969?
07The first successful landing on another planet was achieved in 1966 by which Soviet probe on Venus?
08Who was the first substantive Secretary-General of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), appointed in 1964?
09The 1968 Tet Offensive was launched during the celebration of what specific Vietnamese holiday?
10Who won the Formula One World Championship in 1966, driving a car of his own manufacture?
11Which Martinican psychiatrist and political philosopher published the influential anti-colonial work "The Wretched of the Earth" in 1961?
12What specific type of rapidly rotating neutron star was first observed by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish in 1967?
13The "Prague Spring" reforms of 1968 were led by which First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia?
14Who founded the influential design and furniture company Habitat on London's Fulham Road in 1964?
15In 1969, which African nation changed its name to the People's Republic of the Congo, adopting a Marxist-Leninist state?
16The Op Art movement gained international acclaim after a 1965 exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art titled what?
17Who scored the only touchdown for the Kansas City Chiefs in their Super Bowl I loss to the Green Bay Packers?
18The 1964 discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation was made using what specific type of large radio antenna?
19Which 1963 Akira Kurosawa film is a police procedural thriller based on an Ed McBain novel?
20What was the name of the radical anti-war organization, an offshoot of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), that formed in 1969?