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