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This set of Modern World History Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Modern World History Set 11

Q1 | ……………….., a career Foreign Service Officer, formulated the policy of "containment,"the basic United States strategy for fighting the cold war with the Soviet Union.
  • george f. kennan
  • george c. marshall
  • john f. kennedy
  • yuri andropov
Q2 | Harry S. Truman was the president of ………………..
  • usa
  • french
  • soviet union
  • portugal
Q3 | Cominform was founded in ………………….
  • 1917
  • 1927
  • 1937
  • 1947
Q4 | Cominform was a Soviet-dominated organization of Communist parties founded in September 1947 at a conference of Communist party leaders in SzklarskaPoręba,………………...
  • poland
  • belgium
  • thailand
  • czechoslovakia
Q5 | The initial seat of Cominform was located in …………….(then the capital of theFederative People's Republic of Yugoslavia).
  • belgrade
  • luxembourg
  • belgium
  • thailand
Q6 | After the expulsion of Yugoslavia from Cominform in June…………….., the seat wasmoved to Bucharest, Romania.
  • 1908
  • 1918
  • 1948
  • 1953
Q7 | The Second World War ended in …………. with the defeat of Nazi Germany.
  • 1915
  • 1925
  • 1935
  • 1945
Q8 | In the …………….Agreement of 2 August 1945, the four victorious allies – the USA,Soviet Union, England and France – decided to divide Germany up into four occupied zones.
  • potsdam
  • luxembourg
  • belgium
  • thailand
Q9 | The Berlin Wall fell in November …………………
  • 1949
  • 1959
  • 1969
  • 1989
Q10 | Germany was reunified on 3 October………………..
  • 1940
  • 1950
  • 1960
  • 1990
Q11 | Under the guidance of Soviet Russia, a founding meeting of the Chinese Communistparty (CCP) was held in ……….in July 1921.
  • luxembourg
  • shanghai
  • thailand
  • hunan
Q12 | On October 1, …………., Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creationof the People's Republic of China (PRC).
  • 1939
  • 1949
  • 1953
  • 1956
Q13 | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in …………. by the United States,Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
  • 1939
  • 1949
  • 1951
  • 1959
Q14 | South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was formed in………….
  • 1944
  • 1954
  • 1957
  • 1959
Q15 | Which was the Headquarters of SEATO?
  • czechoslovakia
  • bangkok
  • jerusalem
  • malaysia
Q16 | SEATO was formally disbanded in…………..
  • 1967
  • 1977
  • 1979
  • 1987
Q17 | The Warsaw Treaty Organization (also known as the Warsaw Pact) was a political andmilitary alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the …………….and several Eastern European countries.
  • soviet union
  • jerusalem
  • malaysia
  • america
Q18 | The Warsaw Pact officially disbanded in March and July of …………. following thedissolution of the Soviet Union.
  • 1931
  • 1941
  • 1991
  • 1992
Q19 | The ……………..pact was a defensive organization for promoting shared political,military and economic goals founded in 1955 by Turkey, Iraq, Great Britain, Pakistan and Iran.
  • baghdad
  • jerusalem
  • soviet union
  • malaysia
Q20 | The main purpose of the …………Pact was to prevent communist incursions and fosterpeace in the Middle East.
  • baghdad
  • albania
  • poland
  • palestine
Q21 | ………………. was renamed the Central Treaty Organization, or CENTO, in 1959 after Iraqpulled out of the Pact.
  • baghdad
  • hungary
  • bulgaria
  • romania
Q22 | CENTO was formally disbanded in…………….
  • 1959
  • 1969
  • 1979
  • 1989
Q23 | In…………, the Suez Canal became the focus of a major world conflict.
  • 1916
  • 1926
  • 1956
  • 1958
Q24 | In the late 19th century ………….arose as a nationalist and political movement aimed atrestoring the land of Israel as a national home for the Jewish people.
  • zionism
  • cento
  • lollards
  • judaism
Q25 | The first Zionist congress took place in 1897 in Basel under the guidance of……………..journalist Theodor Herzl.
  • austrian
  • lebanon
  • soviet union
  • american