World History MCQs

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Louis XVI was the King of France at the time of French Revolution. He was the last king of France who ruled from 1774–92, in the line of Bourbon monarchs preceding the French Revolution of 1789. He was married to Marie Antoinette.

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“Bread and peace” slogan was shouted during the February Revolution. On February 23, International Women’s Day, the women of Russia demonstrated against the slaughter happening in the war, calling for bread and peace.

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The Russian capital was moved to Moscow in March 1918. Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia. On March 12, 1918 Moscow became the capital of the Soviet state.

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The Socialists formed an international body known as “Second International”. The Second International formed on 14 July 1889 at a Paris meeting in which delegations from twenty countries participated, was an organisation of socialist and labour parties.

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Japan was not a part of Marshall Plan. The objective of Marshall Plan was to provide aid to the recipients essentially on a per capita basis, with larger amounts given to major industrial powers, like West Germany, France and Great Britain.

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The Evian Accords was a treaty signed on 18 March 1962 in France, by France and the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic, which sought Algeria’s independence from France. This Accords ended the 1954-1962 Algerian War and formalized the idea of a cooperative exchange between the two countries, as well as the full independence of Algeria from France.

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Germany’s political history is connected to “Schicksalstag” events. November 9 has been the date of several important events in German history. The term Schicksalstag or the Day of Fate has been occasionally used by historians and journalists since shortly after World War II, but its current widespread use started with the events of 1989 when virtually all German media picked up the term. There are six notable events in German history that are connected to 9 November: the execution of Robert Blum, the leader of the Vienna Revolts, in 1848; the end of the monarchies through the November Revolution in 1918; the naming of Albert Einstein as the winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”; Hitler putsch attempt in 1923 which marked an early emergence and provisional downfall of the Nazi Party as an important player on Germany’s political landscape; the Nazi antisemitic pogroms in 1938 known in Germany as the Reichspogromnacht (Kristallnacht) and the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 which ended German separation and started a series of events that ultimately led to German reunification.

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The Battle of the Metaxas Line, also known in Greece as the Battle of the Forts, was the first battle during the German invasion of Greece in World War II. The Germans succeeded in capturing several individual forts but failed to breach the fortified Metaxas Line in general. The capture of Thessaloniki forced the Greek East Macedonia Army Section to surrender on the 10th of April and the Metaxas Line battle was over.

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Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1805 constitution. Under Dessalines, Haiti became the first country to permanently abolish slavery. Initially regarded as governor-general, Dessalines was later named Emperor of Haiti as Jacques I (1804–1806) by generals of the Haitian Revolution Army and ruled in that capacity until being assassinated in 1806. He is regarded as one of the founding fathers of Haiti.

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Haitian Rebels and France were the belligerents of the “Battle of Vertieres, 1803”. The Battle of Vertieres was the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, and the final part of the Haitian Revolution under Jean Jacques Dessalines. It was fought on 18 November 1803 between Haitian indigenous army, and Napoleon’s French expeditionary forces, who were openly committed to re-enslave the former enslaved people and regain control of the island.