MCQ The Cold Ware Era Chapter 1 Class 12 Political Science

1. The Soviet Union’s brutal response to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution demonstrated the ineffectiveness of the U.S. strategy of

Flexible response

Massive retaliation

Containment

The Truman Doctrine

Question 1 of 10

2. Which among the following statements about the Cold War is wrong?

It was a competition between the US and Soviet Union and their respective allies

It was an ideological war between the superpowers

It triggered of an arms race

The US and U.S.S.R. were engaged in direct wars

Question 2 of 10

3. The Western Alliance was headed by

the United States

Brazil

the Soviet Union

Balkan countries

Question 3 of 10

4. Which among the following statements does not reflect the objectives of NAM?

Enabling newly decolonized countries to pursue independent policies

Not to joining any military alliances

Following a policy of neutrality on global issues

Focus on elimination of global economic inequalities

Question 4 of 10

5. After the second World War, the world was divided into the blocks of

U.S.A and U.K.

USSR and China

Japan and Korea

U.S.A and USSR

Question 5 of 10

6. What did Kennedy’s New Frontier program seek to do?

Increase social welfare spending

Decrease military spending

Halt “creeping socialism”

Fund anti-Communist insurgents abroad

Question 6 of 10

7. The Warsaw pact was led by_________

Japan

Britain

Italy

the Soviet Union

Question 7 of 10

8. Which of the following statements about the NIEQ is false?

Give the LDCs control over their natural resources

Obtain access to Western markets

Reduce the cost of technology from the Western countries

Provide the developed countries with a greater role in international economic institutions

Question 8 of 10

9. In both the 1950s and 1960s, national income approximately

Doubled

Tripled

Quadrupled

Quintupled

Question 9 of 10

10. Mark correct or wrong against each of the following statements that describe the features of the military alliances formed by the superpowers.

Member countries of the alliance are to provide bases in their respective lands for the superpowers.

Member countries to support the superpower both in terms of ideology and military strategy.

When a nation attacks any member country. it is considered as an attack on all the member countries.

Superpowers assist all the member countries to develop their own under weapons.

Question 10 of 10

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