Contemporary World Politics NDA Questions

Contemporary World Politics MCQ Questions

7.
Which of the following leaders is widely regarded as one of the founding figures of the Non-Aligned Movement, along with Jawaharlal Nehru, Josip Broz Tito and Gamal Abdel Nasser?
A.
Joseph Stalin
B.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
C.
Winston Churchill
D.
Kwame Nkrumah
ANSWER :
D. Kwame Nkrumah
8.
The Non-Aligned Movement was formally launched with its first summit conference held in Belgrade in:
A.
1991
B.
1955
C.
1961
D.
1971
ANSWER :
C. 1961
9.
During the Cold War, several proxy wars were fought between forces backed by the two superpowers without direct confrontation between them. Which of the following conflicts is a classic example of such a Cold War proxy conflict?
A.
The Vietnam War
B.
The Napoleonic Wars
C.
The Falklands War
D.
The First World War
ANSWER :
A. The Vietnam War
10.
The intense competition between the USA and USSR to develop advanced weaponry, including nuclear arsenals, throughout the Cold War period is commonly referred to as the:
A.
Currency War
B.
Trade War
C.
Arms race
D.
Space Race only
ANSWER :
C. Arms race
11.
The disintegration of which country in December 1991 is widely regarded as marking the formal end of the Cold War and of the bipolar world order?
A.
Czechoslovakia
B.
Yugoslavia
C.
The Soviet Union (USSR)
D.
East Germany
ANSWER :
C. The Soviet Union (USSR)
12.
The Soviet leader whose reform policies of 'Glasnost' (openness) and 'Perestroika' (restructuring) in the 1980s are often cited as contributing to the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union was:
A.
Joseph Stalin
B.
Mikhail Gorbachev
C.
Nikita Khrushchev
D.
Leonid Brezhnev
ANSWER :
B. Mikhail Gorbachev