CH - 2 End of Bipolarity MCQs

Founding Date of USSR / Date of Russian or Soviet Revolution

Founding Date of USSR / Date of Russian or Soviet Revolution

1917

What treaty was the Soviet Bloc held together by?

Warsaw Pact

Full form of USSR

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

What was the dominant form of ownership in USSR?

State ownership

How many states made up the Soviet Union?

15

What energy resources were available in USSR?

Oil

Steel

Iron

Which was the dominant party in USSR?

Communist Party of Soviet Union

Which of the following did the Soviet Union lag behind the West in during the arms race?

( i ) Technology

( ii ) Fuel

( iii ) Infrastructure

( iv ) Meeting people’s political and economic aspirations

( a ) only i and iii

( b ) i, ii, iii

( c ) ii and iv

( d ) i, iii, iv

( d ) Technology, Infrastructure and Meeting people’s aspirations

When did the USSR invade Afghanistan?

1979

When did the Berlin Wall collapse?

1989

What was the greatest symbol of the Cold War?

The Berlin Wall

When was Mikhail Gorbachev the General Secretary of Communist Party of SU?

1985

What were the names of Gorbachev’s reforms?

Perestroika (restructuring) and Glasnost (openness)

What was the base for post Soviet states?

Democracy and Capitalism

Who declared USSR disbanded and when?

Belarus, Russia and Ukraine declared USSR disbanded in December 1991

Why did Boris Yeltsin emerge as a national hero?

For opposing a coup planned by Communist Party headliners in 1991

Full form of CIS

Commonwealth of Independent States

How was the issue of exclusion of Central Asian countries from the CIS resolved?

the issue of exclusion of Central Asian countries from the CIS was quickly resolved by making them founding members

Citizens of which nations felt rise of nationalist feelings and a desire for sovereignty in the Soviet Union?

Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Baltic Nations

Which countries come under Baltic Nations?

Estonia, Latvia, Lithunia

Why was nationalist dissatisfaction strongest in European and presperous parts?

People felt alienated from Central Asians and each other and concluded that they were paying too high a cost to keep backward areas within the Soviet Union

Which two institutions are known as the Bretton Woods twins?

World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)