The Cold War

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

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

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. '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. NATO treaty was planned against which country?

1. England
2. Russia
3. France
4. Canada