The New Cold War Vocabulary Quiz 1

The Brezhnev Doctrine stated that -

• The Soviet Union should encourage free market economy in communist countries

• The Soviet Union should intervene in any socialist country deviating from communist ideology

• The Soviet Union should promote democracy in socialist countries

• The Soviet Union should support any capitalist country deviating from communist ideology

The Afghan Communist Party was

• formed in 1960 and disbanded in 1965, only to emerge in the late 1970s

• established in 1965 and came to power in 1978 through a military coup
• established in 1990 and dissolved by the Soviet Union in 1992

• founded in 1980 and overthrown by the Shah in 1983

Hafizullah Amin became the___________ in 1979.

• Prime Minister of Afghanistan
• King of Afghanistan
• Emperor of Afghanistan
• President of Afghanistan

The Soviet Afghan War was caused by -

• Afghanistan's invasion of the Soviet Union
• Soviet Union's desire for territorial expansion
• Soviet Union's response to a military threat from Afghanistan
• Soviet Union's attempt to prop up a communist government in Afghanistan

The Mujahideen were -

• Islamic fighters who resisted the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
• Viking warriors in Scandinavia who invaded the Ural Mountains

• Roman soldiers who conquered Persian cities like Balbec

• Ottoman forces responsible for the capture of Constantinople

The cause of the 1980 Summer Olympics Boycott was -

• United States' invasion of Afghanistan
• Soviet Union's invasion of Iraq
• China's invasion of Afghanistan
• Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan

The 40th US President who took a hardline against communism was -

• Gerald Ford

• George H. W. Bush

• Ronald Reagan
• Jimmy Carter

The Soviet Premier who came into power after Leonid Brezhnev was -

• Anatoly Dobrynin

• Nikita Khruschev

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Yuri Andropov

The purpose of the Strategic Defense Initiative was to -

• develop a system for monitoring space debris
• establish a global environmental protection agency
• create a new currency for international trade
• develop a missile defense system

The Soviet Premier that tried to de-escalate tension between the US and USSR after Yuri Andropov was -

• Konstantin Chernenko

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Nikita Khrushchev
• Mikhail Gorbachev