Panchsheel NDA Questions

NDA Indian History

Panchsheel MCQ Questions


13.
The military alliance formed by the United States and its Western allies in 1949 to counter perceived Soviet expansion in Europe was the:
A.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
B.
SEATO
C.
Warsaw Pact
D.
United Nations
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ANSWER :
A. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
14.
In response to NATO, the Soviet Union and its allied Eastern European communist states formed a rival military alliance in 1955 known as the:
A.
CENTO
B.
SEATO
C.
Warsaw Pact
D.
Baghdad Pact
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ANSWER :
C. Warsaw Pact
15.
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which sought to keep newly independent developing nations from formally aligning with either the US-led or Soviet-led bloc during the Cold War, was co-founded by leaders including India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, and Egypt's:
A.
Anwar Sadat
B.
Hosni Mubarak
C.
King Farouk
D.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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ANSWER :
D. Gamal Abdel Nasser
16.
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, one of the most dangerous confrontations of the Cold War, arose after the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, close to the territory of:
A.
China
B.
The United States
C.
Mexico
D.
The Soviet Union itself
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ANSWER :
B. The United States
17.
The Cold War era saw numerous 'proxy wars', where the two superpowers supported opposing sides in regional conflicts without engaging each other directly; a notable example is the:
A.
Napoleonic Wars
B.
World War I
C.
Falklands War
D.
Vietnam War
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ANSWER :
D. Vietnam War
18.
The 'end of bipolarity', marking the conclusion of the Cold War's two-superpower system, is primarily associated with the disintegration of which country in 1991?
A.
The United States
B.
The Soviet Union
C.
Germany
D.
Yugoslavia
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ANSWER :
B. The Soviet Union