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A major accident took place at which nuclear plant in USSR?

  1. Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant

  2. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

  3. Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant

  4. Kursk Nuclear Power Plant
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

During the last phase of the USSR, a major accident took place in its nuclear plant in Chernobyl. This caused the death of a large number of workers in Chernobyl. But more important, it contaminated the atmosphere of a very large region including many other countries of Europe. Its effects created a new awareness among the people of the world about the danger of nuclear power whether for peaceful or warlike purposes.

Multiple choice introduction to social movements and its types social movements sociology recent social movements social movements in our time

The Cold War occur between which countries?

  1. USA and USSR

  2. USA and France

  3. USSR and Britain

  4. France and Britain
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Conflicts of national interest caused the World War II alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union to be replaced by a Cold War that lasted 45 years. Initially a dispute over the future of Europe, it grew to include confrontations around the world. A clash of very different beliefs and ideology capitalism versus communism each held with almost religious conviction formed the basis of an international power struggle with both sides vying for dominance, exploiting every opportunity for expansion anywhere in the world.

Multiple choice introduction to social movements and its types social movements sociology recent social movements social movements in our time

Who were the two main competitors in nuclear arms race?

  1. Japan and USA

  2. Germany and USA

  3. USA and USSR

  4. Japan and USSR
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The nuclear arms race intensified after the end of Vietnam War as more and more countries competed with each other to stockpile nuclear arms. Companies which produced these arms (called the military-industrial complex) and the governments tried to create a war panic among the common people so that they support greater expenditure of tax payers money on nuclear arms. The USA and the USSR were the front runners in the nuclear arms race.

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Which state was formed after the dissolution of USSR?

  1. Chinese

  2. Russian

  3. American

  4. Japanese
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

In the decades after it was established, the Russian-dominated Soviet Union grew into one of the worlds most powerful and influential states and eventually encompassed 15 republics viz Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. In 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved following the collapse of its communist government. With this ended the long period of Cold War and the constant threat of a catastrophic World War.

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The ________ used guerrilla warfare techniques to fight the war against the USA.

  1. Vietnamese

  2. French

  3. Cambodians

  4. Laotians
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Vietnam was a largely forested and poor nation in comparison with their opponents USA and France. The Vietnamese used guerrilla warfare techniques to fight the war. The USA invented and used newer arsenal like chemical weapons including napalm bombs destroying entire villages.

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 A Social Movement is a _________ one. 

  1. Planned

  2. Unplanned

  3. Community based

  4. Both a and c
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
A social movement is the effort by an association to bring about a change in the society. A social movement may also be directed to resist a change. Some movements are directed to modify certain aspects of the existing social order whereas others may aim to change it completely. On account of their transformational and empowering potential, social movement have attracted much interest in fields aimed at social betterment through participation, such as community psychology or health promotion. Thus, a social movement is a planned and community based one.
Multiple choice introduction to social movements and its types social movements sociology recent social movements social movements in our time

Which of the following are the nature of Social Movements ?

  1. They are Planned.

  2. They are natural as they have been happening, have happened and will happen.

  3. They are community based programmes.

  4. All
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Social movements are instrument of Social Change. Social movement is collective action of people either to promote or resist a change in society or group of which it is a part. Social movement is not sudden outbreak but an organised collective action followed by ideology behind the action. 


As society develops, their occurs changes in system or some societies lack behind, people of those societies forms group and aim at bringing about change in values, norms and structure hence social movement are natural and found in every range of society. They are oriented towards social change that derive people to join and to inspire by their goal and ideology.