World History GK Questions

A [14th July, 1789]

Notes:

Bastille in Paris was stormed on the afternoon of 14th July, 1789. The medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille represented royal authority and despotic rule of the King, in the centre of Paris.

C [Kaiser William I of Prussia]

Notes:

William I or Wilhelm I of the House of Hohenzollern or Kaiser William I of Prussia was King of Prussia from 2 January 1861. He became the first German Emperor from 18 January 1871 to his death.

C [1917]

Notes:

US entered World War I in 1917. In 1917, Germany, determined to win its war of attrition against the Allies and it announced the resumption of unrestricted warfare in war-zone waters. The United States broke diplomatic relations with Germany three days later, and just hours after that the American liner Housatonic was sunk by a German U-boat.

C [Japan ]

Notes:

World War II was fought between 1939 to 1945. It was fought between the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria) versus Allies (U.S., Britain, France, China, USSR, Australia, Poland, South Africa, etc).

C [Joseph Stalin]

Notes:

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician. He was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower.

C [1944]

Notes:

The Bretton Woods Conference which is officially known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was a gathering of delegates from 44 nations that met from July 1, 1944, to July 22, 1944 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.

C [Vladimir Lenin ]

Notes:

The Bolshevik group in Russian Revolution was led by Vladimir Lenin. Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He is known to have developed a variant of Marxism known as Leninism.

D [All of the above ]

Notes:

The ideas envisaging a society based on freedom.and equal laws and opportunities for all, were put forward by philosophers such as John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau during the 18th century. In his Two Treatises of Government, John Locke sought to refute the doctrine of the divine and absolute right of the monarch. Rousseau carried the idea forward, proposing a form of government based on a social contract between people and their representatives. In The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu proposed a division of power within the government between the legislative, the executive and the judiciary. This model of government was put into force in the USA, after the thirteen colonies declared their independence from Britain.

C [Only 1, 2, and 3]

Notes:

By the mid-nineteenth century in Europe, socialism was a well-known body of ideas that attracted widespread attention. Socialists were against private property, and saw it as the root of all social ills of the time. Socialists had different visions of the future. Some believed in the idea of cooperatives. Robert Owen (1771-1858), a leading English manufacturer, sought to build a cooperative community called New Harmony in Indiana (USA). In France, for instance, Louis Blanc (1813-1882) wanted the government to encourage cooperatives and replace capitalist enterprises. Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) added other ideas to this body of arguments. Immanuel Kant was a German enlightenment thinker of the previous century.

A [Czechoslovakia]

Notes:

In his foreign policy, Hitler acquired quick successes. He pulled out of the League of Nations in 1933, reoccupied the Rhineland in 1936, and integrated Austria and Germany in 1938 under the slogan, ‘One people, One empire, and One leader’. He then went on to wrest German-speaking Sudentenland from Czechoslovakia, and gobbled up the entire country later under the Munich Pact. In all of this he had the unspoken support of England, which had considered the Versailles verdict too harsh. So, option ‘a’ is the correct answer.