Modern History - MCQs with answers - Part 7
1. When did the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen?a) 1941
b) 1942
c) 1945
d) 1940
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c) 1945
The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
a) 1949
b) 1990
c) 1948
d) 1950
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) 1949
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty.
a) 1927
b) 1948
c) 1950
d) 1937
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) 1927
It ended when major active battles ceased in 1950.
a) 1937
b) 1948
c) 1950
d) 1953
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) 1953
The Korean war was a war between North and South Korea.
a) 1937
b) 1948
c) 1950
d) 1955
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) 1955
The capture of Saigon by the North Vietnamese Army in April 1975 marked the end of war.
a) 1959
b) 1975
c) 1962
d) 1983
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) 1983
Able Archer 83 was a ten-day North Atlantic Treaty Organization command post exercise that spanned Western Europe.
a) 1970
b) 1980
c) 1990
d) 1991
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) 1991
It resulted in the abolition of the Soviet Federal Government.
a) 1970
b) 1975
c) 1980
d) 1990
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) 1975
Operation 'Condor' was a campaign of political repression and state terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of opponents.
a) 1970
b) 1957
c) 1980
d) 1990
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) 1957
The Space Age began with the development of several technologies that culminated with the launch of Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union.
a) 1961
b) 1970
c) 1975
d) 1980
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) 1961
The Vostok programme succeeded in placing the first human into space in a single orbit in Vostok 1.
