Important 1 Marker (From NCERT ) Chapter-1 Cold War And Non Aligned Movement

True or False

1.     Which among the following statements about the Cold War is false?

(a) The US and USSR are currently engaged in hot war.

(b) Both US and USSR were keen on expanding their influence.

(c) Both superpowers were engaged in ideological conflict also

(d) The cold war threatened to divide the world into two alliances.

Answer: (a) False

2.     The logic of deterrence prevents a full scale war.

 Answer: True

3.     The use of nuclear weapons in the Cold War was highly appreciated.

Answer: False

4.     USA and USSR both were nuclear states, willing to end conflicts during 1945-1991. Answer: True

5.     India was not an ally of the US during the Cold War period.

 Answer: True

6.     NAM was also an initiative to provoke US and USSR to enter into full scale war.

Answer: False 7.

7.     The United States dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in year 1945.

Answer: True

8.     US and USSR were facing threats from Least Developed Countries.

Answer: False

9.     START and SALT-I were names of nuclear weapons developed by the US.

 Answer: False

10.  George H.W. Bush was the President of the US at the time of the end of Cold War period.

 Answer: True

Importanat Terms :-

11. Cuban Missile Crisis was the high point of the cold war.

12. NATO-North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (1949) 

13. Warsaw Pact- 1955

14. CENTO-Central Treaty Organisation (1955)

15. SEATO-South East Asian Treaty Organisation (1954)

16. China and USSR War-1969 due to a territorial dispute.

17. Gorbachev became the President of USSR's Communist Party in 1985.

18. 1st NAM Summit- Belgrade, 1961- attended by 25 countries.

19. 14th NAM Summit-Havana, 2006

20. American War of Independence - 1787.

21. Foreign Policy of USA from 1787 to 1914 was isolationism.

22. 1972- Towards a New Trade Policy for Development.

23. Example of how Superpower used military power to bring countries into their alliances-

24.  Eg: USSR used military influence in EAST EUROPE, backed by the very large presence of armies in this region.

25. 1989- Fall of Berlin Wall

26. 1990- Unification of Germany

27. UN Secretary General - U Thant - solved the Congo Crisis.

28. CTBT- Comprehensive test ban treaty signed in 1996.

29. LTBT- Limited Test Ban Treaty (5 Aug 1963)

30. NPT- Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (1 July 1968)

31. SALT- Strategic Arms Limitation Talks signed by Soviet Union leader Leonid Brezhnev and US President Kichard Nixon in Moscow on 26 May 1972.

32. Five founder members of NAM were

Yugoslavia’s -Josip Broz Tito,

India’s -J.L. Nehru,

 Egypt’s - Gamal Abdel Nasser,

Indonesia’s - Sukarno &

Ghana’s - Kwame Nkrumah.

33. Anti- Ballistic Missile System treaty (1972)

34. Name of bombs- Little (10ft) Boy & Fat man (10ft 8in) weight of bombs -15000- 21000 tons.

35. The Eastern Alliance headed by the USSR, represented the ideology of _________ Answer: - communism

36. First Summit of NAM was held at ______ in 1961

      Answer:- Belgrade

37. It was an important component of India's foreign policy that also offered the newly decolonized countries to stay away from two superpowers. It is known as _____

     Answer :- NAM

38. The ______ powers in the Second World War was led by Germany, Italy and Japan.  

     Answer :- Axis

39. In 1962, ________ placed the nuclear missiles in Cuba

      Answer :- Soviet Union

True and False: -

40. Cuban crisis resulted in a full scale nuclear war.

Answer: - False

41. The US President John F. Kennedy was not reluctant to do anything against USSR. Answer: - False

42. Tensions between The United States and USSR backed by their respective allies escalated into a hot war.

Answer: - False

43. The game of supremacy came to an end after the Second World War.

Answer: - False

44. The smaller states were deliberately divided by the superpowers in their camps. Answer: - False

45. Communist China had close relations with USSR till 1970.

 Answer: - D) False

46. American President Harry Truman gave a doctrine about the Containment of communism.

Answer: - True

47. Least developed countries (LDCs) to developed economically and to lift the people out of poverty ignited the formation of NIEO.

Answer: - True

48. By 1970 NAM became an economic group.

Answer: - True

49. India's non alignment was criticized because it was unprincipled and inconsistent. Answer: - True

50. Nikita Khrushchev was the President of Cuba.

ANSWER- False

51. Leaders of the Soviet Union decided to convert Cuba into a Russian base.

ANSWER- True

52. Cold war was simply a matter of power rivalries but not accompanied by a real ideological conflict.

ANSWER- False

53. Second World War came to an end in 1947.

ANSWER- False

54. Hot war refers to a full scale war between the rival powers.

ANSWER- True

55. The bomb dropped by USA on Hiroshima in 1945 had a codename Fatman. ANSWER-False

56. As Cuba was not an ally of the Soviet Union so it did not receive any diplomatic and financial aid from it.

ANSWER-False

57. Allied forces in 1945 were led by the USA, Soviet Union, Britain and France. ANSWER-True

58. When two superpowers are in a deterrence relationship fighting wars will not be massively destructive.

ANSWER-False

59. The main objective of Warsaw Pact created in 1955 was to counter NATO in Europe. ANSWER- TRUE

60. Match the following crisis in the world politics with respective years –

1.     Congo crisis  2.     II. Berlin crisis

1.     A. 1950-53 2.     B. 1971 3.     C. 1960-65 4.     D. 1961 Ans. I-C, II-D

 61. Match the following leaders of NAM with their countries –

1.     Abdel Gamal Nasser 2.     Josip Broz 3.     Sukarno 4.     Kwame Nkrumah

A.   Yugoslavia B.    Egypt C.    Indonesia D.   India E.    Ghana Ans. I-B, II-A iii-C, Nkrumah- E

62. Match the following countries with their ideologies –

1.     China 2.     USA

A.   Capitalist B.    Communist C.    Mixed economy D.   Socialist Ans. I-B, II-A

 63. Match the following countries with their respective alliances –

1.     Cuba 2.     India

A.   Capitalist B.    Communist C.    NAM D.   Socialist Ans. I-B, II-C

64. Match the following years with the treaties signed –

1.     START-I 2.     II. LTBT

A. 1984 B. 1963 C. 1958 D. 1991 Ans. I-D, II-B