On what date was Leonid Brezhnev elected to the dual office of secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet President?

Related Mcqs:

1. Leonid Brezhnev was the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Who succeeded him when he died of a heart attack?

   A. Nikita Khrushchev
   B. Yuri Andropov
   C. Konstantin Chernenko
   D. Mikhail Gorbachev

2. In which year Mikhail Gorbacheve took over as the first elected Secretary General of the Communist party of Russia. In the same year Martial law was lifted in Pakistan.

   A. 1980
   B. 1982
   C. 1985
   D. 1987

3. The merry month of May: on what date did President Nixon make his first visit to the then-Soviet Union?

   A. 22 May 1972
   B. 12 May 1972
   C. 2 May 1972
   D. 20 May 1972

4. 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

5. As Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, this Russian diplomat started the western world when he signed he Nazi-Soviet Pact of 23 August 1939. Who was he?

   A. V. M. Molotov
   B. Georgi M. Malenkov
   C. Maxim Litvinov
   D. Konstantin A. Umansky

6. In WW11, the German-Soviet war saw many nationalities participate in the campaign against the Soviet Union. Which nationality contributed the most people to the German war effort against the Soviets?

   A. Romanians
   B. Italians
   C. Russians
   D. Ukrainians

7. This man, elected President of China by the National People’s Congress in March 2003, served as party chief in the 1980s in Guizhou and Tibet, where he oversaw crackdowns on pro-independence protests.

   A. Jiang Zemin
   B. Hu Jintao
   C. Tenzin Gyatso
   D. Yao Ming

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

   A. United States
   B. Japan
   C. China
   D. Great Britain

9. There was a great unrest against communist people’s Democratic Party. In this situation who with the help of ISI trained the anti-Government Mujahadeen?

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

10. Sardar Mohammad Daud’s entire family was murdered in 1978 when communist people’s democratic party of Afghanistan took over the government by launching a coup known as:

    A. Great Saur Revolution
    B. Great Communist Revolution
    C. Great People’s Revolution
    D. Great democratic Revolution