USSR quits Afghanistan - Test
- 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) Nikita Khrushchev
B) Leonid Brezhnev
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Vladimir Lenin
- 3. Which city served as the capital of Afghanistan during the Soviet intervention?
A) Baghdad
B) Moscow
C) Kabul
D) Tehran
- 4. What was the Afghan resistance movement against the Soviet intervention known as?
A) Al-Qaeda
B) Taliban
C) Mujahideen
D) ISIS
- 5. What major event in 1989 marked the formal end of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan?
A) Geneva Accords
B) Yalta Conference
C) Camp David Accords
D) Munich Agreement
- 6. Which country supported the Afghan Mujahideen against the Soviet Union?
A) United States
B) Iran
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) Project Paperclip
B) Operation Rolling Thunder
C) Operation Cyclone
D) Operation Barbarossa
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