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