The Cold War

Q. Who among the following coined the term “Cold War”?

1. Hirohito
2. Max Hastings
3. Bernard Baruch
4. MacArthur

Q. 'X' was the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 and president of the Soviet Union in 1990–91. His efforts to democratise his country's political system and decentralise its economy led to the downfall of communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. In part, because he ended the Soviet Union's postwar domination of eastern Europe, 'X' was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1990. Identify 'X'.

1. Vladimir Lenin
2. Boris Yeltsin
3. Joseph Stalin
4. Mikhail Gorbachev

Q. The was the first major international crisis that arose because of the Cold War.

1. Vietnam War
2. Cuban Missile Crisis
3. Berlin crisis
4. Korean War

Q. Choose among the following the countries that are part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation(NATO).

1. Soviet Union
2. Luxembourg
3. Iceland
4. Portugal

Q. Identify the countries that came together to form the North Atlantic treaty Organisation during the Cold War.

1. Netherlands
2. Poland
3. Czechoslovakia
4. Luxembourg
5. Canada
6. Iceland
7. Bulgaria
8. USA
9. Belgium
10. Hungary

Q. Which of the following was least likely to provoke a direct military confrontation between the United States and the USSR?

1. The Berlin Airlift of 1948
2. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962
3. The Soviet suppression of the Hungarian revolt in 1956
4. The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961
5. The Korean War of 1950 to 1953

Q. The Moroccan Crisis and Bosnian Crisis are related in that ______________________.

1. They both led to regime change with new conservative monarchs
2. They were both caused by aggressive actions from the Ottoman Empire
3. They both dealt with nationalism
4. They both led to civil wars
5. They both dealt with the desire for liberal freedoms

Q. What is meant by the term Cold War?