{"id":13956,"date":"2026-04-20T02:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/what-was-the-baltic-way-baltic-chain-demonstration-of-august-23-1989\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:11:22","slug":"what-was-the-baltic-way-baltic-chain-demonstration-of-august-23-1989","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/what-was-the-baltic-way-baltic-chain-demonstration-of-august-23-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"What was the Baltic Way (Baltic Chain) demonstration of August 23, 1989?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Choose the best description of the Baltic Way event and its purpose.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>A human chain linking people across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to protest the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact<\/li>\n<li>A secret armed uprising coordinated by anti-Soviet partisans<\/li>\n<li>A Soviet cultural festival celebrating Baltic republics<\/li>\n<li>A trade agreement signed by the three Baltic capitals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[1900],"subject":[1899],"education_level":[1897,1896],"class_list":["post-13956","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-lithuania-independence-movements","subject-european-history","education_level-graduate","education_level-hsc"],"mcq_note":"On August 23, 1989, approximately two million people formed a human chain\u2014known as the Baltic Way\u2014stretching between Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius. The demonstration marked the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and protested the secret protocols that led to Soviet domination of the Baltic states. It was a major nonviolent act of solidarity demanding restoration of independence.","mcq_options":[{"right":"yes","answer":"A human chain linking people across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to protest the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact"},{"right":"no","answer":"A secret armed uprising coordinated by anti-Soviet partisans"},{"right":"no","answer":"A Soviet cultural festival celebrating Baltic republics"},{"right":"no","answer":"A trade agreement signed by the three Baltic capitals"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":1899,"title":"European History","slug":"european-history"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":1900,"title":"Lithuania Independence Movements","slug":"lithuania-independence-movements"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/13956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=13956"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=13956"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=13956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}