- 1. When did the USSR quit Afghanistan?
A) 1979
B) 1989
C) 2001
D) 1991
- 2. Which leader of the Soviet Union initiated the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan?
A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Nikita Khrushchev
C) Leonid Brezhnev
D) Vladimir Lenin
- 3. Which city served as the capital of Afghanistan during the Soviet intervention?
A) Moscow
B) Kabul
C) Baghdad
D) Tehran
- 4. What was the Afghan resistance movement against the Soviet intervention known as?
A) Al-Qaeda
B) ISIS
C) Mujahideen
D) Taliban
- 5. What major event in 1989 marked the formal end of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan?
A) Munich Agreement
B) Camp David Accords
C) Yalta Conference
D) Geneva Accords
- 6. Which country supported the Afghan Mujahideen against the Soviet Union?
A) United States
B) China
C) Pakistan
D) Iran
- 7. The Afghan War, known as 'the Soviet Vietnam', lasted for how many years?
A) 9 years
B) 7 years
C) 13 years
D) 5 years
- 8. What was the nickname of the covert CIA program that aided the Afghan Mujahideen?
A) Project Paperclip
B) Operation Rolling Thunder
C) Operation Barbarossa
D) Operation Cyclone
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