World after 1945 - class-IX
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Created by: Shiva Nambiar | |
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An American Oswald designed to contain the spread of communism during the Cold War was:
Name three countries which made up the Axis powers during World War II?
_______ is a holy city for the Jews.
Millions of Jews were killed in _____ by the Nazis.
Which wall divided East and West Germany?
Stalin broke the ______ treaty and established his power on Poland.
Which country founded Warsa Treaty?
Which country was attacked by the Soviet commandos in 1979 by taking over the offices in its capital city?
Which two countries were armed with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the earth seventeen times over?
Which of the following agreements was signed by the US, Soviet Union and other countries in 1975?
What did M.A.D stand for?
Name the treaty that was signed by the US and the Soviet Union to limit the number of nuclear weapons for the first time.
Name the missile that was introduced by the Soviets into Eastern Europe.
Who became the oldest president of the United States in 1981?
What was the nickname given to the Strategic Defence Initiative?
"As far as an arms race is concerned, there's one going on right now, but there's only one side racing". Who said the above words?
In which year did the Soviet Union launch its first satellite?
The main aim of N.A.T.O. was _______.
What is the capital of Israel?
The Potsdam Conference provided for all the following except:
The Cold War ended primarily because ________.
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent." The phrase "iron curtain," coined in 1947, refers to the:
Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in, to keep them from leaving us. The speaker most likely made this speech during which of the following conflicts?
The GI Bill of Rights altered U.S. society by _______.
Which of the following is a classic American novel of adolescent rebellion?
The Potsdam Conference was convened in July 1945 so that _______.
I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the state department. This statement began a brief period in U.S. history that became known for ______.
The scriptwriters known as the "Hollywood Ten" were blacklisted by the movie industry because they ________.
Which of the following is a nickname for the gener ation born between 1945 and 1965?
The spread of Communism was stopped by NATO primarily in ____________.
The reaction by Western Europe to the Berlin blockade was the ___________.
For Western Europe, the Marshall Plan provided ____________.
During the years following the World War II, President Truman's foreign policy was focused chiefly on _________.
The ability to get to the verge without getting into war is the necessary art. The speaker is describing which of the following?
All the following were possible motives for President Harry S. Truman using the atomic bomb against Japan EXCEPT:
Which of the following works of the American the ater explicitly compares McCarthyism to the Puritan "witch hunts" of Salem, Massachusetts?
All of the following Cold War ideas involved Europe except ________.
The main goal of the Marshall Plan was to ___________.
At the Yalta Conference of 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was most worried about the views expressed by _________.
Which chief justice of the Supreme Court was said to be the leader of a very activist court?
After World War II, NATO was formed primarily to __________.
Sputnik was significant for the United States because it _________.
All of the following events contributed to Cold War tensions except the _________.
The North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 established _____________.
The Senate passed a censure motion against Senator Joseph McCarthy in the wake of ___________.
"The cause of anti-communism, which united millions of Americans and which gained the support of Democrats, Republicans, and independents, was undermined by Sen. Joe McCarthy.... McCarthy addressed a real problem: disloyal elements within the U.S. government. But his approach to this real problem was to cause untold grief to the country he claimed to love.... Worst of all, McCarthy besmirched the honorable cause of anti-communism."
The time period that the author refers to in the passage above is most likely the ______.
Which of the following Cold War ideas was not involved Europe?
Which of the following events was most unlikely to provoke a direct military confrontation between the United States and the USSR?
The main goal of the Truman Doctrine was ________.
How did the Soviet Union respond to the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO)?
At the Yalta Conference of 1945, whose views caused great worry to President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Which among the following presents the selected events of the Cold war listed in the proper chronological order?
NATO was formed after World War II primarily to __________.
All of the following were essential provisions of the Atlantic Charter except _____________________.
Among the options given below which of the following is true in the case of convicted Cold War spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg?
All of the following were social, political, and economic consequences of World War II's impact on the American home front EXCEPT _________________________.
Which of these does NOT describe the experiences of Jews in early medieval Western Europe?
Which of these was NOT an impact of World War II on Latin America during the 1939-1945 period?
The concentration camps were ___________.
Which region is known by the term 'Middle East'?
Which region lies between Europe and Asia?
Who withdrew its support to Egypt?
The terrorists crashed into the WTC in ______ killing thousands of people.
Gamal Abdul Nasser demanded the withdrawal of British troops from the ______.
Massive oil reserves were discovered in the ______ peninsula.
Where was the PLO established?
Which movement was started by the Jews?
Between which two groups did the conflict develop in West Asia?
This question has multiple answers.
With whose support did Nasser nationalise the Suez Canal?
Which Egyptian President made efforts to unite the Arabs?
Who established an extremist Islamic state in Afghanistan?
The destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is symbolic of the _____.
Who resisted the coup on behalf of the Russian Parliament?
Between which two countries did the cold war begin?
This question has multiple answers.
Which two countries came under tremendous public pressure to end the arms race and nuclear arsenal?
This question has multiple answers.
Mikhail Gorbachev was a _____.
Which among the following statements about the Cold war is wrong?
The organization which had been set up in 1949 and continues promoting world-peace is ___________.
Arrange the following events in chronological order
(I) Warsaw Treaty
(II) SEATO Treaty
(III) Paris Summit
(IV) NATO Treaty
NATO treaty was planned against which country?
After Stalin death, Nikita Krushchev became president of which country?
When was SEATO Treaty was found?
When was Communist republic under leadership of Mao-Tse-Tung founded?
In Oct 1971, which country was awarded with permanent membership of Security Council?
Which treaty got America and its alliance together?
Which country created SEATO Treaty?
When was 'North Atlantic Treaty Organization' found?
When the eight nations conference was held at the capital of Poland Warsaw?
Eisenhower became president for which country?
Which of the following conditions is/are under Eisenhower Theory?
You knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is a certainty that it will go over very quickly. This statement by Dwight D. Eisenhower became known as the _____.
Our diplomats and their advisers . . . lost sight of our tremendous stake in a non-Communist China .... This House must now assume the responsibility of preventing the onrushing tide of communism from engulfing all of Asia. The speaker probably issued this statement to the House of Representatives on the eve of which of the following?
The U.S. government allocated massive sums of money to math and science the 1950s in response to which of the following?
Which of the following was imposed to stop the spread of communism in the Middle East during the Cold War?
The Soviet Union responded to the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) by _________.
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. The speaker of this quotation most likely is referring to which of the following?
Who controlled Palestine before Second World War?
What was the main reason for conflicts between the Arabs?
Which of the following reforms were introduced by Gorbachev in USSR?
Who gave up terrorism and recognised the formation of Israel?
In which year was Israel created for the Jews?
In which year did a revolution take place in Iran?
Who announced the disbanding of USSR in 1991?
In which year was the Palestinian Liberation Organisation(PLO) established?
In which year did the UN pass a resolution for the division of Palestine?
Communist hardliners in USSR encouraged a coup in _______ to remove Gorbachev from power.
Who came to power in Iraq in the year 1968?
Which president of USSR tried to transform politics and bring radical changes?
The nuclear tests were banned between _____ to _____.
In the 1980's Mikhail Gorbachev's attempts to change the Soviet Union resulted in ______.
Which of the following statement explains Glasnost?
In which year did the disbanding of USSR take place?
During the 1980's, Mikhail Gorbachev introduced Perestroika in the Soviet Union to _______.
Which of the following events did not occur due to the cold war?
The ECOSOC is mainly concerned with the management of the UN's social, economic, cultural and humanitarian activities.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill signed the _______________ that led to the formation of the United Nations.
The UN lays a special emphasis on resolving conflicts through ___________.
Churchill and Stalin were never in favour of the UN.
Which of the following elect the Judges of the International Court of Justice ?
The Chief U.N. organ responsible for maintaining world peace is ______________.
What is the function of UN Security General?
Which US President formed the NATO?
In which year was the NATO established?
Name the Pact that was established by Stalin.
In which year was the Warsaw pact set up?