World History MCQs

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Christopher Columbus tried for eighteen long years to persuade the rulers of Portugal and Spain to furnish him with ships for a voyage into the Atlantic. Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain paid for Columbus’ expedition across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Portuguese was the first European to come to India. Vasco da Gama opened up the sea route from western Europe to the East by way of the Cape of Good Hope. He reached the port of Calicut on 20^th May 1498 AD.

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The American Revolution which is also called the U.S. War of Independence, was the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783. The 13 colonies of Great Britain threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America, founded with the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

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Liberty, Freedom and Equality is a French legacy. At the time of the French Revolution, “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” was one of the many mottos in use and Maximilien Robespierre also advocated that the words “The French People” and “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” be written on uniforms and flags, but his proposal was rejected.

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Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union. It started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. It is considered as the largest German military operation of World War II.

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The commune of farmers in Russia was known as Mir. The farmers pooled their land together periodically and their commune also called the Mir, divided it according to the need of individual families.

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Denshawai Incident of 1906 was a dispute between the British military officers, the then colonial power of Egypt, and locals of Denshawai village of Egypt. Britishers unleashed severe consequences to retaliate against the incident on the Egyptian locals, which marked the turning point for the Egyptians to turn against the British presence in their country. Denshway Museum was constructed to commemorate the incident. This incident provoked Egyptian nationalist sentiment against British occupation.

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Beginning in May 1968, a period of civil unrest occurred throughout France, lasting some seven weeks and punctuated by demonstrations, general strikes, and the occupation of universities and factories. At the height of events, which have since become known as May 68, the economy of France came to a halt. The protests reached such a point that political leaders feared civil war or revolution; the national government briefly ceased to function after President Charles de Gaulle secretly fled France to Germany at one point. The protests spurred movements worldwide, with songs, imaginative graffiti, posters, and slogans.

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The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian War of Independence or the Algerian Revolution or the War of 1 November, was fought between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France. It was an important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare, maquis fighting, and the use of torture. The conflict also became a civil war between the different communities and within the communities. The war took place mainly on the territory of Algeria, with repercussions in metropolitan France.

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Germany’s unification was achieved through the “Two Plus Four Agreement”. The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany or the Two Plus Four Agreement was negotiated in 1990 between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, and the Four Powers which occupied Germany at the end of World War II in Europe: France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In the treaty, the Four Powers renounced all rights they held in Germany, allowing a reunited Germany to become fully sovereign the following year. On the other hand, Germany agreed to confirm its acceptance of its existing border with Poland and accepted that the borders of Germany after unification would correspond only to the territories then administered by West and East Germany, with the exclusion and renunciation of any other territorial claims.