- 1. When did the USSR quit Afghanistan?
A) 1979
B) 1991
C) 1989
D) 2001
- 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) Kabul
B) Baghdad
C) Moscow
D) Tehran
- 4. What was the Afghan resistance movement against the Soviet intervention known as?
A) Al-Qaeda
B) ISIS
C) Taliban
D) Mujahideen
- 5. What major event in 1989 marked the formal end of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan?
A) Yalta Conference
B) Munich Agreement
C) Geneva Accords
D) Camp David Accords
- 6. Which country supported the Afghan Mujahideen against the Soviet Union?
A) China
B) Pakistan
C) Iran
D) United States
- 7. The Afghan War, known as 'the Soviet Vietnam', lasted for how many years?
A) 7 years
B) 5 years
C) 9 years
D) 13 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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