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