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