The End of Bipolarity Class 12 MCQs Questions with Answers
Question 1.
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in the year
(a) 1975
(b) 1977
(c) 1979
(d) 1981
Answer
Answer: (c) 1979
Question 2.
Who became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985?
(a) Joseph Stalin
(b) Nikita Khrushchev
(c) Mikhail Gorbachev
(d) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Answer
Answer: (b) Nikita Khrushchev
Question 3.
The most severe conflict took place in the Balkan republics of:
(a) Bulgaria
(b) Greece
(c) Yugoslavia
(d) Macedonia
Answer
Answer: (c) Yugoslavia
Question 4.
The Berlin wall fall in _________
(a) November 1989
(b) December 1989
(c) January 1990
(d) February 1990
Answer
Answer: (a) November 1989
Question 5.
Which country in Central Asia witnessed a civil war that went on for ten years?
(a) Azerbaijan
(b) Tajikistan
(c) Uzbekistan
(d) Turkmenistan
Answer
Answer: (b) Tajikistan
Question 6.
When did the Soviet Union collapse?
(a) 1989
(b) 1990
(c) 1991
(d) 1992
Answer
Answer: (c) 1991
Question 7.
Which was the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from Soviet Russia?
(a) Lithuania
(b) Moldova
(c) Armenia
(d) Georgia
Answer
Answer: (a) Lithuania
Question 8.
Bolshevik Communist party was founded by
(a) Vladimir Lenin
(b) Stalin
(c) Nikita Khrushchev
(d) Leonid Brezhnev
Answer
Answer: (a) Vladimir Lenin
Question 9.
The Russian Revolution in 1917 was led by
(a) Joseph Stalin
(b) Nikita Khrushchev
(c) Mikhail Gorbachev
(d) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Answer
Answer: (d) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Question 10.
The Chechens are
(a) Buddhist group
(b) Christain ethnic group
(c) Jewish ethnic group
(d) Muslim ethnic group
Answer
Answer: (d) Muslim ethnic group
