In This Post we are providing CHAPTER 1THE COLD WAR ERA NCERT MCQ for Class 12 POLITICAL SCIENCE PART-A CONTEMPORARY WORLD POLITICS which will be beneficial for students. These solutions are updated according to 2021-22 syllabus. These MCQS can be really helpful in the preparation of Board exams and will provide you with a brief knowledge of the chapter
NCERT MCQ ON THE COLD WAR ERA
Question 1 : Why did Truman ignore his advisors and officially recognize Israel as a new and independent nation in 1948?
(a) He wanted Jewish-American votes
(b) The American public sympathized with Jews after the Holocaust
(c) He wanted to keep the USSR out of Israel
(d) All of the above
Answer : D
Question 2 .The event that took place in 1961 was
(a) The construction of the Berlin wall
(b) Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
(c) Vietnamese Intervention in Cambodia
(d) The unification of Germany
Answer : A
Question 3 : The Eisenhower Doctrine was aimed at bolstering key nations from Communist insurgents in
(a) The Middle East
(b) Latin America
(c) Southeast Asia
(d) Western Europe
Answer : A
Question 4 : When USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba?
(a) 1960
(b) 1961
(c) 1962
(d) 1963
Answer : C
Question 5 : What is the full form of ‘CENTO’?
(a) The Central Task Organisation
(b) The Central Treaty Organisation
(c) The Central Tally Organisation
(d) The Central Team Organisation
Answer : B
Question 6 : The Soviet Union’s brutal response to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution demonstrated the ineffectiveness of the U.S. strategy of
(a) Flexible response
(b) Massive retaliation
(c) Containment
(d) The Truman Doctrine
Answer : B
Question 7 .Which among the following statements about the Cold War is wrong?
(a) It was a competition between the US and Soviet Union and their respective allies
(b) It was an ideological war between the superpowers
(c) It triggered of an arms race
(d) The US and U.S.S.R. were engaged in direct wars
Answer : D
Question 8 .The Western Alliance was headed by
(a) the United States
(b) Brazil
(c) the Soviet Union
(d) Balkan countries
Answer : A
Question 9 : Which among the following statements does not reflect the objectives of NAM?
(a) Enabling newly decolonized countries to pursue independent policies
(b) Not to joining any military alliances
(c) Following a policy of neutrality on global issues
(d) Focus on elimination of global economic inequalities
Answer : C
Question 10 : After the second World War, the world was divided into the blocks of
(a) U.S.A and U.K.
(b) USSR and China
(c) Japan and Korea
(d) U.S.A and USSR
Answer : D
Question 11 : What did Kennedy’s New Frontier program seek to do?
(a) Increase social welfare spending
(b) Decrease military spending
(c) Halt “creeping socialism”
(d) Fund anti-Communist insurgents abroad
Answer : A
Question 12 : The Warsaw pact was led by _________(a) Japan
(b) Britain
(c) Italy
(d) the Soviet Union
Answer : D
Question 13 : Which of the following statements about the NIEQ is false?
(a) Give the LDCs control over their natural resources
(b) Obtain access to Western markets
(c) Reduce the cost of technology from the Western countries
(d) Provide the developed countries with a greater role in international economic institutions
Answer : D
Question 14 : In both the 1950s and 1960s, national income approximately
(a) Doubled
(b) Tripled
(c) Quadrupled
(d) Quintupled
Answer : A
Question 15 : Mark correct or wrong against each of the following statements that describe the features of the military alliances formed by the superpowers.
(a) Member countries of the alliance are to provide bases in their respective lands for the superpowers.
(b) Member countries to support the superpower both in terms of ideology and military strategy.
(c) When a nation attacks any member country. it is considered as an attack on all the member countries.
(d) Superpowers assist all the member countries to develop their own under weapons.
Answer : A
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