The “Sino-Soviet split” involved relationship between the Soviet Union and:

Related Mcqs:

1. The Unites States backed the Ethiopian government in its conflict with Somalia in the 1970s as part of: A. an attempt to secure its natural reaources B. an attempt to support the new Soviet policy of glasnost C. an attempt to prevent the Soviet Union from gaining a seaport in the Horn of Africa D. a proxy war with the Soviet Union?

   A. an attempt to secure its natural reaources
   B. an attempt to support the new Soviet policy of glasnost
   C. an attempt to prevent the Soviet Union from gaining a seaport in the Horn of Africa
   D. a proxy war with the Soviet Union

2. The foreign policy adopted by the United States in the early years of the Cold War to stop the expansion of the Soviet Union was known as:

   A. the Marshall Plan
   B. containment
   C. mutual assured destruction
   D. peaceful coexistence

3. The term “banana republic” refers to the relationship between poorer states and __________?

   A. MNCs
   B. NGOs.
   C. IGOs
   D. substate actors

4. In 1962, the United States and the USSR almost went to war over the issue of Soviet nuclear weapons in

   A. North Korea
   B. Poland
   C. East Germany
   D. Cuba

5. The Soviet policy of perestroika pursued:__________?

   A. containment of American military power
   B. economic reform
   C. support of developing world communist revolutions
   D. detente with China

6. Which of the following were efforts to achieve more cooperative relations between the Western and Communist countries?

   A. Detente with the USSR
   B. Rapprochement with China
   C. German Ostpolitik
   D. All of the options given are correct

7. In international relations, the principle of _______ underlies the great power system?

   A. identity
   B. co-operation
   C. dominance
   D. reciprocity

8. Time-space compression is:____________?

   A. capitalism’s insatiable requirement for new markets and profits, which lead inevitably to the globalization of economic activity.
   B. a shared ecology involving shared en environmental problems, from global warming to species protection, alongside the creation of multilateral responses and regimes of global environmental governance.
   C. central to any account of globalization since it is a truism that without modern communications infrastructures, in particular, a global system or worldwide economy not be possible.
   D. the technologically induced erosion of distance and time giving the appearance a world that is in communication terms shrinking

9. Russian President Vladimir Putin:

   A. Has decentralized the Russian economy
   B. Has promoted Western-style civil rights
   C. Has nationalized Russian economic assets
   D. Was Yeltsin’s predecessor

10. The First World War led to dissolution of which of the following empires?

    A. Britain
    B. Russia
    C. Portugal
    D. France