ST.

XAVIER’S SCHOOL, NEVTA

Class 12
POLITICAL SCIENCE WORKSHEET
CH-2 THE END OF BIPOLARITY

OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

Multiple Choice Questions
1. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) came into being after the socialist
revolution in Russia in
a. 1916 b. 1917
c. 1919 d. 1914

2. Which party was dominant in the Soviet political system?

a. Leninist Party b. Communist party
c. Labour party d. None of these

3. Who was the founder of the ‘Bolshevik Communist Party’?

a. Marx b. Lenin
c. Stalin d. None

4. How many years communist Party ruled on Soviet Union?

a. 40 years b. 70 years
c. 60 years d. None

5. Who was the last president of Soviet Union

a. Mikhail Gorbachev b. Khruschev
c. Stalin d. Lenin

6. Who started the policy of Perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness)

a. Mikhail Gorbachev b. Boris Yelstin
c. Leonid Brezhnev d. None of these

7. What was the name of the model of transition in Russia,which was influenced by the
World Bank and IMF.
a. Shock Therapy b. Shock policy
c. Shock Economy d. None of these

8. What are the things required to shift towards the capitalist economy?
a. Free trade system b. Currency convertibility
c. Foreign direct investment d. All of these
9. In which year was ‘Shock Therapy’ administered?
a. 1990 b. 1991
c. 1992 d. 1994

10. Name any two republics where violent secessionist movements took place.
a. Chechnya-Tajikistan b. Chechnya- Dagestan
c. Tajikistan-Dagestan d. None of these

10. Name the first Soviet Republic which declared its independence.
a. Lithuania b. Chechnya
c. Dagestan d. Latvia

11. Shock therapy was related to

a. Economic model b. Agreement
c. Peace d. Successor of the USSR

12. Select the correct option for FDI.

a. Foreign detention investigation b. Foreign direct investment
c. Free direct investment d. Feeder domestic investment

13. Select the correct option :

After 1991, it broke apart with several provinces like Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia and
Harzegovina declaring independence..
a. Czechoslovakia b. Yugoslavia
c. Croatia d. Mauritius

14. Which one of the following is not a Baltic Republic?

a. Estonia b. Latvia
c. Ukraine d. Lithuania

15. Russia and India believe in which kind of world.

a. Unipolar b. Bipolar
c. Multipolar d. None of the above

16. CIS was formed on.

a. 8 December, 1991 b. 21 December, 1991
c. 15 May, 1992 d. None of the above

17. Georgia became the member of CIS in:

a. 1991 b. 1992
c. 1993 d. 2020

18. CIS was established by:

a. Russia, Belarus, Ukraine b. Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan
c. Russia, Belarus, Moldova d. None of the above
19. Cause of Arab Spring was:
a. Monarchy b. Political corruption
c. Unemployment d. All of the above

20. Goal of Arab Spring was

a. Democracy b. Economic Freedom
c. Free elections d. All of the above

21. Arab Spring started in

a. 2010 b. 2008
c. 2009 d. 2005

22. Arab Spring ended on

a. January 2010 b. 18th December 2010
c. December 2012 d. 10thJanuary 2018

23. In December 2010, ____________ protest rocked Tunisia.

a. Anti government b. Anti democracy
c. Anti employment d. Anti communism

24. From which year did the US hegemony begin?

a. In 1990 b. In 1991
c. In 1992 d. None of these

25. To liberate Kuwait from Iraq, which military campaign(operation )took place?
a. Operation infinite Reach b. Operation Desert Storm
c. Operation Enduring freedom d. Operation Iraqi freedom

26. Global war on terror was the part of a war against terrorism launched by the US
a. Operation Desert Storm b. Operation Iraqi freedom
c. Operation Enduring freedom d. None of these

27. Through which operation, America targeted a series of cruise missile strikes on Al Qaeda
terrorists in Sudan and Afghanistan.
a. Operation infinite Reach b. Operation Kuwait
c. Operation Middle-east d. None of these

28. By which code name US launched its invasion in Iraq on 19 March, 2003.
a. video war b. Operation Desert Storm
c. Operation Iraqi freedom d. None of these

29. In which year the first business school in the world was established.
a. 1881 b. 1871
c. 1971 d. None of these

30. What percentage is shared by the US in the world economy?

a. 28% b. 30%
c. 40% d. 20%

Match the following-

(A)

1. Joseph Stalin (i) Founder of the Bolshevik Communist

party

2. Vladimir Lenin (ii) Denounced Stalin’s leadership style

3. Nikita Khrushchev (iii) Proposed Asian collective security

system

4. Leonid Brezhnev (iv) Responsible for great terror successor

to Lenin, began
rapid industrialization and forcible
collectivization of
agriculture.

5. Boris Yeltsin (v) Leader of the Soviet Union (1953-64)

6. Nikita Khrushchev (vi) Leader of the Soviet Union (1964-82)

7. Leonid Brezhnev (vii) Led the protests in 1991

(B)

1. Operation Infinite Reach (i) War against Taliban and Al-Qaeda

2. Operation Enduring freedom (ii) 'coalition of the willing’

3. Operation Desert storm (iii) missile strikes in Sudan

4. Operation Iraqi Freedom (iv) First Gulf war

(C)

1. World war (i) 1990

2. Kuwait (ii) 1992

3. Clinton (iii) 1941

4. Pearl Harbour (iv) 1945

(D)
1. Saddam Hussein (i) Kosovo

2. George Bush (ii) Iraq

3. Bill Clinton (iii) US President 1992

4. Milosevic (iv) US President 1994

Fill in the Blanks

1. The Berlin wall symbolised the division between the ___________ and the communist
world.
2. Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the ____________ party of the Soviet
Union in 1985.
3. In December 1991, under the leadership of ___________________ Russia, Ukraine and
Belarus,three major republics of the USSR, declared that the Soviet Union was disbanded.
4. ________________ came into being after the socialist revolution in Russia in 1917.
5. After the _____________ war the east European countries that the soviet army had
liberated from the fascist forces came under the control of __________________.
6. The soviet invasion of _____________ took place in 1979.
7. In March 1990_______________ became the first of the 15 Soviet republics to declare its
independence.
8. The USSR was composed of ____________________ republics.
9. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan happened in the year_____________.
10. __________________ marked the unification of the two parts of Germany.
11. ____________________ was the founder of Bolshevik Communist party and the leader
of the Russian Revolution of 1917
12. The USSR came into being after the ________________ revolution in Russia in the year
___________________.
13. The military alliance of the second world is called_____________________.
14. The first movement for independence began in _____________________ in Soviet
Union.
15. The president of ___________________ and ____________________ appointed
themselves to power first for ten years and then extended it for another ten years.
16. On September 11, 2001, one aircraft crashed into the ________________ building in
Arlington,Virginia.
17. ”The First Gulf war” is known as ______________ and _____________ war.
18. The first Gulf war revealed the vast______________ gap that had opened up between
the US military capability and that of other states.
19. The attacks on 11 September 2001 by hijackers on the World Trade Centre in New York
are known as _________________.
20. After the 9/11incident,US forces made arrests all over the world and brought these
persons in secret prisons .Some of them were brought to___________ Bay, a US naval
base in Cuba.
21. NATO forces took action against Yugoslavia as Yugoslavia had attacked ____________
population in the province of _____________.
22. George W. Bush launched operation Enduring freedom against__________ and
_______________ in Afghanistan.
23. U.S.A has ensured freedom of _________________ in international waters which also is
known as___________________.
24. The U.S.A as a _______ power has been able to persuade than coerce.
25. ___________________ strategy is to extract benefits by operating within the hegemonic
system.

State the following as True or False

1. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
2. In 1991, three large republics of Soviet Union____ Russia,Ukraine and Belarus declared
the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
3. Economic model introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev gave strength to Russia.
4. After the disintegration of Russia the balance of power in the world order was changed.
5. The Shock therapy failed to meet the aspirations of people.
6. In March 1985Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the General Secretary of the Communist
party of the Soviet Union and initiated a series of reforms.
7. The Soviet Union was more advanced in technology than the western countries.
8. After the Second World War the Soviet economy was more developed than the rest of the
world except for the U.S.

State by giving reasons whether given statements are true or false.

1. A massive coalition force of 6,60,000 troops from 34 countries fought against Iraq and
defeated it in what came to be known as the second Gulf War.
2. As a part of it’s global war on terror the US launched” Operation Desert storm” against
those suspected to be behind the attack.
3. The first Gulf war is also called ‘computer war’.
4. In August 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait, rapidly occupying and subsequently annexing it.
5. The attack of 9/11 on World Trade Centre in New York have been compared to the British
burning of Washington DC in 1814 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941.
Which among the following statements that describe the nature of Soviet economy is
False.
(a) Socialism was the dominant ideology.
(b) State ownership/control existed over the factors of production.
(c) People enjoyed economic freedom.
(d) Every aspect of the economy was planned and contained by the state.

Which one of the following statements related to the Iraq invasion by the US is
incorrect.
(a) More than forty other countries were involved in this invasion.
(b) The UN had given consent to invade Iraq.
(c) The invasion was to prevent Iraq from developing weapons of mass destruction.
(d) The U.S lost over 3000 military personnel in this war.

Correct and rewrite the statement.

1. Vladimir Lenin became General Secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union in
1985.
2. More than 10 bilateral agreements have been signed between India and Russia as part of
the Indo-Russian strategic Agreement of 2001.
3. The US intervention and the bombing of Yugoslavia followed the inter-ethnic civil war.