- 1. When did the USSR quit Afghanistan?
A) 2001
B) 1991
C) 1989
D) 1979
- 2. Which leader of the Soviet Union initiated the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan?
A) Nikita Khrushchev
B) Leonid Brezhnev
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Vladimir Lenin
- 3. Which city served as the capital of Afghanistan during the Soviet intervention?
A) Tehran
B) Moscow
C) Baghdad
D) Kabul
- 4. Which country supported the Afghan Mujahideen against the Soviet Union?
A) Pakistan
B) Iran
C) United States
D) China
- 5. What major event in 1989 marked the formal end of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan?
A) Camp David Accords
B) Geneva Accords
C) Yalta Conference
D) Munich Agreement
- 6. The Afghan War, known as 'the Soviet Vietnam', lasted for how many years?
A) 13 years
B) 9 years
C) 5 years
D) 7 years
- 7. What was the nickname of the covert CIA program that aided the Afghan Mujahideen?
A) Operation Rolling Thunder
B) Operation Cyclone
C) Project Paperclip
D) Operation Barbarossa
- 8. What was the Afghan resistance movement against the Soviet intervention known as?
A) Taliban
B) Mujahideen
C) ISIS
D) Al-Qaeda
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