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Chapter 1 The Cold War Era MCQ Questions Class 12 Political Science with Answers
(a) SEATO
(b) CENTO
(c) NATO
(d) Warsaw Pact
(a) The U.S.A.
(b) England
(c) France
(d) None of these
(a) South-East Asian Task Organisation
(b) South-East Asian Treaty Organisation
(c) South-East Asian Tally Organisation
(d) South-East Asian Team Organisation
(a) To prevent another world war
(b) To root out Communist spies in the federal government
(c) To contain the USSR
(d) To unite the Western powers against possible invasion by the USSR
(a) Communism and Capitalism
(b) Monarchism and Capitalism
(c) Communalism and Capitalism
(d) None of the above
(a) U.S.S.R.
(b) New Zealand
(c) Pakistan
(d) Australia
(a) Berlin Pact
(b) Limited Test Ban Treaty
(c) Moscow Agreement
(d) Warsaw Pact
(a) China
(b) Canada
(c) The USSR
(d) Germany
(a) He wanted Jewish-American votes
(b) The American public sympathized with Jews after the Holocaust
(c) He wanted to keep the USSR out of Israel
(d) All of the above
(a) The construction of the Berlin wall
(b) Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
(c) Vietnamese Intervention in Cambodia
(d) The unification of Germany
(a) The Middle East
(b) Latin America
(c) Southeast Asia
(d) Western Europe
(a) 1960
(b) 1961
(c) 1962
(d) 1963
(a) Flexible response
(b) Massive retaliation
(c) Containment
(d) The Truman Doctrine
(a) It was a competition between the US and Soviet Union and their respective allies
(b) It was an ideological war between the superpowers
(c) It triggered of an arms race
(d) The US and U.S.S.R. were engaged in direct wars
(a) the United States
(b) Brazil
(c) the Soviet Union
(d) Balkan countries
(a) Enabling newly decolonized countries to pursue independent policies
(b) Not to joining any military alliances
(c) Following a policy of neutrality on global issues
(d) Focus on elimination of global economic inequalities
(a) U.S.A and U.K.
(b) USSR and China
(c) Japan and Korea
(d) U.S.A and USSR
(a) Increase social welfare spending
(b) Decrease military spending
(c) Halt “creeping socialism”
(d) Fund anti-Communist insurgents abroad
(b) Britain
(c) Italy
(d) the Soviet Union
(a) Give the LDCs control over their natural resources
(b) Obtain access to Western markets
(c) Reduce the cost of technology from the Western countries
(d) Provide the developed countries with a greater role in international economic institutions
(a) Doubled
(b) Tripled
(c) Quadrupled
(d) Quintupled
(a) Member countries of the alliance are to provide bases in their respective lands for the superpowers.
(b) Member countries to support the superpower both in terms of ideology and military strategy.
(c) When a nation attacks any member country. it is considered as an attack on all the member countries.
(d) Superpowers assist all the member countries to develop their own under weapons.
Question : The high point of Cold War was .......................
(A) Cuban Missile Crisis
(B) Atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
(C) Establishment of SEATO and CENTO
(D) Establishment of NATO
Answer : A
Question : Warsaw Pact was created in the:
(A) 1935
(C) 1955
(B) 1945
(D) 1965
Answer : C
Question : What were the leaders of USSR worried about in 1961?
(A) That USA will attack China
(B) That USA will be the most powerful nation
(C) That USA will develop more nuclear weapons
(D) That USA will attack Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro
Answer : D
Question : Which of the following statements about the NIEO is false?
(A) Give the LDCs control over their natural resources.
(B) Obtain access to western markets.
(C) Reduce the cost of technology from western countries.
(D) Provide the developed countries with a greater role in international economic institutions.
Answer : D
Question : Select the correct option for the Alliance and the organization it was formalized into:
(A) The Eastern Alliance was formalized into UNO.
(B) The Western Alliance was formalized into NATO.
(C) The Central Alliance was formalized into SEATO.
(D) The Neutral Alliance was formalized into Peace keeping forces.
Answer : B
Question : Who was the President of USA during Cuban Missile Crisis?
(A) Abraham Lincoln
(B) John F Kennedy
(C) Bill Clinton
(D) None of the above
Answer : B
Question : In which year NAM was established?
(A) 1956
(B) 1960
(C) 1990
(D) 1957
Answer : A
Question : Which set of the countries belonged to the NATO Group?
(A) Poland, Britain, Romania
(B) USA, Czech Republic, France
(C) United Kingdom, France, West Germany
(D) Spain, France, East Germany.
Answer : C
Question : Which of the following countries was not a member of NATO?
(A) France
(B) The U.S.A.
(C) England
(D) None of these
Answer : D
Question : The Cold War is referred to the competition, the tensions and a series of confrontations between the:
(A) United States and the Soviet Union
(B) France and Germany
(C) India and Pakistan
(D) America and Africa
Answer : A
ASSERTION AND REASON BASED MCQs
Directions: In the following questions, a statement of
Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R).
Mark the correct choice as:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Question : Assertion: Soviet Union, decided to convert Cuba into a Russian base.
Reason: Cuba was an ally of the Soviet Union and received both diplomatic and financial aid from it.
Answer : B
Question : Assertion: The US President, John F. Kennedy, and his advisers were reluctant to do anything that might lead to full-scale nuclear war between the two countries.
Reason: The possible clash (Cold War) between the two countries was avoided.
Answer : C
Question : Assertion: NAM gave the members right not to choose any bloc over the other and yet gave them the right to deal with the global issues.
Reason: Jawahar Lal Nehru isolated India from the entire world.
Answer : C
Question : Assertion: The Cold War was not simply a matter of power rivalries, of military alliances, and of the balance of power. U
Reason: These were accompanied by a real ideological conflict as well, a difference over the best and the most appropriate way of organizing political, economic, and social life all over the world.
Answer : A
Question : Assertion: The Cuban Missile Crisis was only one of the several crisis that occurred during the Cold War.
Reason: The Cold War also led to several shooting wars.
Answer : B
Question : Assertion: The installation of these weapons put the US, for the first time, under fire from close range and nearly doubled the number of bases or cities in the American mainland which could be threatened by the USSR. U
Reason: Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union, decided to convert Cuba into a Russian base.
Answer : A
Question : Assertion: The roots of NAM went back to the friendship between three leaders — Yugoslavia’s Josip Broz Tito, India’s Jawahar Lal Nehru, and Egypt’s leader Gamal Abdel Nasser — who held a meeting in 1956.
Reason: NAM was established for neutral approach in the situation of the Cold War.
Answer : A
Question : Assertion: Under these circumstances (Cold War),many of the newly independent countries, after gaining their independence from the colonial powers such as Britain and France, were worried that they would lose their freedom as soon as they gained formal independence.
Reason: The Cold War threatened to divide the world into two alliances.
Answer : A
Question : Assertion: Huge stocks of arms were considered necessary to prevent wars from taking place.
Reason: Since the Cold War did not eliminate rivalries between the two alliances, mutual suspicions led them to arm themselves to the teeth and to constantly prepare for war.
Answer : A
Question : Assertion: The Western Alliance was formalized into an organization, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which came into existence in April 1949. U
Reason: The Eastern Alliance, known as the CENTO, was led by the Soviet Union.
Answer : C
Question : Assertion: The two sides understood that war might occur in spite of restraint.
Reason: Because they wanted to confront each other with weapons.
Answer : C
Question : Assertion: Smaller states got the promise of protection, weapons, and economic aid against their local rivals, mostly regional neighbours with whom they had rivalries.
Reason: The smaller states in the alliances used the link to the superpowers for their own purposes.
Answer : A
Case based MCQ Chapter 1 The Cold War Era Political Science
I. Study the cartoon carefully and give the answers to the question that follows:
Question : What could be the appropriate title for the picture given above?
(A) US vs USSR economic contestation.
(B) Capitalist vs Communist Model.
(C) Contestation between two superpowers; US vs USSR.
(D) Cuban Missile Crisis.
Answer : C
Question : How USA shows its hegemony?
(A) By showing its dominance in military, economy and culture over the other nations.
(B) By having UN head quarter in New York.
(C) By cooperating other nations in their development.
(D) None of the above.
Answer : A
Question : Name two allied countries each of these superpowers.
(A) Albania and Romania
(B) New Zealand and China
(C) India and Nepal
(D) France and Canada
Answer : D
Question : What was the result of the Cold War?
(A) Disintegration of USSR and US emerging as the sole superpower.
(B) Beginning of Russian dominance over the world.
(C) Fall down of US as a capitalist economy and its adoption of Communist model.
(D) None of the above.
Answer : A
II. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
The Western alliance was formalized into an organization, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which came into existence
in April 1949. It was an association of twelve states which declared that armed attack on any one of them in Europe or North America would be regarded as an attack on all of them. Each of these states would be obliged to help the other. The eastern alliance, known as the Warsaw Pact, was led by the Soviet Union. It was created in 1955 and its principal function was to counter NATO’s forces in Europe. International alliances during the Cold War era were determined by the requirements of the superpowers and the calculations of the smaller states. As noted above, Europe became the main arena of conflict between the superpowers. In some cases, the superpowers used their military power to bring countries into their respective alliances. Soviet intervention in east Europe provides an example. The Soviet Union used its influence in eastern Europe, backed by the very large presence of its armies in the countries of the region, to ensure that the eastern half of Europe remained within its sphere of influence. In East and Southeast Asia and in West Asia (Middle East), the United States built an alliance system called — the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO) and the Central Treaty Organization 1 (CENTO). The Soviet Union and communist China responded by having close relations with regional countries such as North Vietnam, North Korea and Iraq.
Question : When was NATO formed?
(A) June 1949
(B) March 1949
(C) February 1949
(D) April 1949
Answer : D
Question : How many states were associated with NATO?
(A) eleven states
(B) twelve states
(C) ten states
(D) nine states
Answer : B
Question : When Warsaw Pact was created?
(A) 1955
(B) 1957
(C) 1954
(D) 1956
Answer : A
Question : What was the primary aim of Warsaw Pact?
(A) To counter USA’s forces only
(B) To counter SEATO’s forces
(C) To achieve economic development in the countries of Soviet Union
(D) To counter NATO’s forces in Europe
Answer : D
III. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
In April 1961, the leaders of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) were worried that the United States of America (USA) would invade communist-ruled Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro, the president of the small island nation off the coast of the United States. Cuba was an ally of the Soviet Union and received both diplomatic and financial aid from it. Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union, decided to convert Cuba into a Russian base. In 1962, he placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. The installation of these weapons put the US, for the first time, under fire from close range and nearly doubled the number of bases or cities in the American mainland which could be threatened by the USSR. Three weeks after the Soviet Union had placed the nuclear weapons in Cuba, the Americans became aware of it. The US President, John F. Kennedy, and his advisers were reluctant to do anything that might lead to full-scale nuclear war between the two countries, but they were determined to get Khrushchev to remove the missiles and nuclear weapons from Cuba. Kennedy ordered American warships to intercept any Soviet ships heading to Cuba as a way of warning the USSR of his seriousness. A clash seemed imminent in what came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The prospects of this clash made the whole world nervous, for it would have been no ordinary war. Eventually, to the world’s great relief, both sides decided to avoid war. The Soviet ships slowed down and turned back.
Question : The leaders of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) were worried that…
(A) the USA would invade communist-ruled Cuba and overthrow Guevara.
(B) the USA would invade communist-ruled Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro.
(C) the USA would invade communist-ruled Cuba to establish democratic government.
(D) All of the above.
Answer : B
Question : From whom did Cuba receive diplomatic and financial help?
(A) Fidel Castro
(B) United Nations
(C) Soviet Union
(D) John F Kennedy
Answer : C
Question : Who decided to convert Cuba into a Russian base?
(A) Nikita Khrushchev
(B) Fidel Castro
(C) America
(D) None of the above
Answer : A
Question : Who ordered American warships to intercept any Soviet ships heading to Cuba as a way of warning to USSR?
(A) George W Bush
(B) Western European countries
(C) John F Kennedy
(D) All the above
Answer : C
IV. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
The end of the Second World War is a landmark in contemporary world politics. In 1945, the Allied
Forces, led by the US, Soviet Union, Britain and France defeated the Axis Powers led by Germany, Italy and Japan, ending the Second World War (1939- 1945). The war had involved almost all the major powers of the world and spread out to regions outside Europe including Southeast
Asia, China, Burma (now Myanmar) and parts of India’s northeast. The war devastated the world in terms of loss of human lives and civilian property. The First World War had earlier shaken the world between 1914 and 1918.The end of the Second World War was also the beginning of
the Cold War. The world war ended when the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, causing Japan to surrender. Critics of the US decision to drop the bombs have argued that the US knew that Japan was about to surrender and that it was unnecessary to drop the bombs. They suggest that the US action was intended to stop the Soviet Union from making military and political gains in Asia and elsewhere and to show Moscow that the United States was supreme. US supporters have argued that the dropping of the atomic bombs was necessary to end the war quickly and to stop further loss of American and Allied lives. Whatever the motives, the consequence of the end of the Second World War was the rise of two new powers on the global stage. With the defeat of Germany and Japan, the devastation of Europe and in many other parts of the world, the United States and the Soviet Union became the greatest powers in the world with the ability to influence events anywhere on earth.
Question : Which countries comprised the “allied forces”?
(A) US, Soviet Union, Britain and France.
(B) US, Germany, Soviet Union and Britain.
(C) US, Soviet Union, Britain, France and Japan.
(D) None of the above
Answer : A
Question : How long the Second World War lasted?
(A) five years
(B) seven years
(C) three years
(D) six years
Answer : D
Question : When did the First World War start?
(A) 1914
(B) 1918
(C) 1915
(D) 1920
Answer : A
Question : What is the critics’ opinion about USA dropping the atomic bombs on Japan?
(A) USA was completely unaware that Japan was about to surrender.
(B) USA already had knowledge that Japan is going to surrender.
(C) USA wanted to control Japan as its colony.
(D) USA wanted to capture Japan’s natural resources.
Answer :
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