Great powers include:

Related Mcqs:

1. Middle powers include:

   A. Great Britain
   B. Colombia
   C. Iran
   D. Luxembourg

2. The United States and the other great powers account for ________ of world military spending.

   A. three-quarters
   B. four-fifths
   C. two-thirds
   D. one-half

3. Peace agreement in 1901, namely Boxer Protocol was signed between the Great Powers and:

   A. China
   B. USA
   C. Canada
   D. Pakistan

4. Josef Stalin, although allied with the Allied Powers during World War ll, perhaps killed and tortured more of his own people than anyone, at any time. His paranoia led to purges throughout society and his own administration. Any who were thought to have disobeyed his will were tortured and murdered. Approximately, how many people was Stalin thought to have murdered?

   A. 20,000,000
   B. 3,000,000
   C. 700,000
   D. 185,000

5. As the leader of Romania during the Cold War, this corrupt man often refused to co-operate with Soviet policy, which gained him the friendship of the United States and many other Western powers. Many believe his wife was the real “power behind the throne”, especially in the later years. Who was this Communist leader?

   A. Nicolae Ceausescu
   B. Vaclav Havel
   C. Lech Walesa
   D. Andrei Gromyko

6. In 1782, the Continental Congress named a 5 member commission to negotiate the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain and bring an end to the American Revolution. Two of the appointees never arrived in Paris in time to take part in the negotiations. Which one of these appointees was captured by a British warship and interred in the Tower of London and thus never got to Paris?

   A. John Adams
   B. Thomas Jefferson
   C. Henry Laurens
   D. John Jay

7. The Jay Treaty of 1794, between the U.S. and Great Britain included which of the following provisions?

   A. British agreed to end discrimination against American commerce
   B. British agreed to evacuate Northwest Territory
   C. Declared Mississippi River open to both countries
   D. All of these

8. Monarch of Great Britain at the release of ‘Casablanca’?

   A. Elizabeth ll
   B. George Vl
   C. George V
   D. Edward Vll

9. The founding members of SEATO were Australia, France, Great Britain, New Zealand , Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand and US. Pakistan officially withdrew from it in:

   A. 1972
   B. 1982
   C. 1967
   D. 1976

10. Siachen Glacier is the great Himalayan watershed that:

    A. demarcates central Asia from Indian sub-continent
    B. separates Pakistan from China in this region
    C. both of these
    D. none of these