The End of the Cold War 1960 to 1990 Politics Society and Culture MCQs

Question. The two key post-war powers which played significant role during the cold war were
(a) USA and Soviet Union
(b) USSR and China
(c) USA and China
(d) USA and England

Answer: A

Question. The process whereby a colonial power grants judicial independence to a colony, but nevertheless maintains a ‘de-facto’ political and economic control is known as
(a) Neo- Marxism
(b) Neo-communism
(c) Neo-colonialism
(d) Neo-imperialism

Answer: C

Question. One of the most visible spokesperson and leader of the Civil Rights Movement was
(a) Betty Friedan
(b) Eleanor Roosevelt
(c) Malcolm X
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer: D

Question. The main body of Muslim who follow the path of Prophet Muhammad’s son-in-law Ali’s accession to the Caliphate was
(a) Mujahidin
(b) Shia Islam
(c) Sunni Islam
(d) Shia & Sunni Muslim

Answer: B

Question. The former Soviet Union was replaced by
(a) 12 independent countries
(b) 13 independent countries
(c) 14 independent countries
(d) 15 independent countries

Answer: D

Question. Who defines ‘social movement’?
(a) Mario Diani
(b) Sidney Tarrow
(c) Charles Tilly
(d) John McCarthy

Answer: B

Question. The Black panther party advocates
(a) voting right
(b) end to police brutality in black neighborhoods.
(c) women’s rights
(d) the rights of peasants

Answer: B

Question. It was this Soviet Union leader who introduced Glasnost and Perestroika
(a) Lenin
(b) Stalin
(c) Mikhail Gorbachev
(d) Boris Yeltsin

Answer: C

Question. Prague Spring happened in
(a) 1968
(b) 1960
(c) 1967
(d) 1970

Answer: A

Question. Who among the following person is associated with theory of “unipolar moment”
(a) Eric Hobsbawm
(b) Samuel P. Huntington
(c) Krauthammer
(d) Manuel Castells

Answer: C

Question. A brief period of liberal reforms attempted by the government of Alexander Dubcek in 1968 was called
(a) Praque Spring
(b) détente
(c) cultural Revolution
(d) the Great Leap Forward

Answer: A

Question. Little Red Book is associated with
(a) Autobiography of Karl Marx
(b) Quotations of Lenin
(c) Quotations of Mao Tse-tung
(d) Communist Guide book

Answer: C

Question. The immediate post-cold war era witnessed an era that is
(a) multipolar
(b) tripolar
(c) unipolar
(d) singpolar

Answer: C

Question. Under unipolar, most of the world region’s economic, social, cultural aspects are influenced by
(a) single state/country
(b) two countries
(c) three countries
(d) four countries

Answer: A

Question. Communist rule in Poland ended in
(a) 1989
(b) 1990
(c) 1991
(d) 1988

Answer: A

Question. What brought about Cultural Revolution?
(a) Mass consumption
(b) Mass culture
(c) Widespread migration
(d) Mass revolution

Answer: B

Question. The ‘fall of the Berlin Wall’ paved the way for
(a) German reunification
(b) unification of Italy
(c) unification of Russia
(d) unification of Prussia

Answer: A

Question. The Solidarity Movement in Poland played a major role in
(a) the establishment of communist rule
(b) the end of communist rule in Poland
(c) the fall of Lech Walesa as head
(d) the end of democracy in Poland

Answer: B

Question. Which of the following were not included in social movements during the1960s?
(a) the civil rights movement and the student movement
(b) the anti-Vietnam War movement and the women’s movement
(c) Church and agriculture movement
(d) the gay rights movement and the environmental movement

Answer: C

Question. Which of the following women was used as propaganda figure in the Second World War?
(a) Marilyn Monroe
(b) Gerda Hedwig Lerner
(c) Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor
(d) Jane Austen

Answer: A

Question. The first President of Russia after the breakup of the Soviet Union was
(a) Vladamir Putin
(b) Mikhail Gorbachev
(c) Boris Yeltsin
(d) Stalin

Answer: C

Question. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in
(a) 4th April 1968
(b) 4th April 1969
(c) 4th May 1968
(d) 4th May 1969

Answer: A

Question. Solidarity movement was officially ended by
(a) martial law
(b) constitutional reform
(c) human rights
(d) coup d’état

Answer: A

Question. The Irish Republican Army’s (IRA)original aim was to establish an
(a) Irish Democratic Republic
(b) Irish Socialist Republic
(c) Irish Communist Republic
(d) Irish Catholic Republic

Answer: B

Question. Following Muhammad’s death in 632 CE, ______became the first Caliph (successor or deputy of the Prophet) of the Islamic nation.
(a) Abu Bakr
(b) Ali
(c) Shoukat Ali
(d) Saladin

Answer: A

Question. What was the name of the first official military operation against Iraq in the 1990-1991 Gulf War?
(a) Operation Desert Storm
(b) Operation Iraqi Freedom
(c) Operation Enduring Freedom
(d) Operation Thunderstorm

Answer: A

Question. Unipolar moment was the moment of
(a) Soviet Union
(b) China
(c) America
(d) Germany

Answer: C

Question. Polish Independent Trade Union Federation formed the Solidarity Movement in
(a) 1980
(b) 1984
(c) 1990
(d) 1991

Answer: A

Question. Glasnost literally means
(a) economic development
(b) intellectual development
(c) intellectual openness
(d) intellectual freedom

Answer: C

Question. Match the Following:
A. Black Panther Party (BPP)
B. Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
C. Congress on Racial Equality (CORE)
D. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
i. 1909
ii. 1960
iii. 1942
iv. 1966
(a) A-iv, B-ii, C-iii, D-i
(b) A-i, B-ii, C-iii, D-iv
(c) A-ii, B-iii, C-iv, D-i
(d) A-iii, B-iv, C-i, D-ii

Answer: A

Question. The word ‘perestroika’ means
(a) rebirth
(b) restructuring
(c) reform
(d) transparency

Answer: B

Question. The Soviet Union disintegrated in
(a) 1989
(b) 1990
(c) 1991
(d) 1992

Answer: C

Question. Cultural revolution was introduced and launched in China by
(a) Lin Biao
(b) Chiang Kai shek
(c) Mao Zedong
(d) Sun Yat-sen

Answer: C

Question. Which one of the following was not included in Five Black Categories?
(a) Landlord and Rich Farmers (Peasants)
(b) Counter-revolutionaries,
(c) Bad-Influencers and Rightists
(d) Communist, Leftist and Socialist

Answer: D

Question. Solidarity Movement was launched in Poland in
(a) 1967
(b) 1971
(c) 1973
(d) 1988

Answer: D

Question. The most dramatic and far-reaching social change of the second half of the twentieth century, according to Eric Hobsbawm, was
(a) death of the peasantry
(b) boom in production
(c) cultural revolution
(d) social movements

Answer: A

Question. East and West Germany was united following the collapse of the Berlin Wall on
(a) October 3, 1979
(b) October 3, 1989
(c) October 3, 1990
(d) October 3, 1991

Answer: C

Question. The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963 which sparked the second wave of feminism, was written by
(a) Betty Friedan
(b) Gloria Steinem
(c) Simone de Beauvoir
(d) Virginia Wolfe

Answer: A

Question. Irish Republican Army was formed in
(a) 1916
(b) 1917
(c) 1918
(d) 1919

Answer: D

Question. Civil Rights Law was passed by
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson
(b) Abraham Lincoln
(c) John F. Kennedy
(d) Robert Kennedy

Answer: A