World History MCQs

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James I of the Stuart dynasty was a Catholic and adopted a policy of religious persecution of the Protestants and Puritans of England. The English Puritans hated to be brought under the English Catholic Church and therefore decided to leave England to settle elsewhere.

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George Washington was the commander-in-chief of the American war of Independence. In October 1781 at Yorktown, the British General Cornwallis surrendered to the Americans.

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The Bastille symbolized despotic power of the King as Bastille had many prisoners who were put in jail without any trial. Anyone who opposed the policies of Louis XVI was imprisoned. Therefore, it was the symbol of despotic power of King.

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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.

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Mettemich who was the Austrian chancellor presided over the Congress of Vienna in 1815 because he was leading the host delegation. He was very much opposed to nationalism, whether of Italy or of Germany.

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The Soviet of the People’s Commissars was the official name of Lenin’s new government. Vladimir Lenin became the head of the new government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

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The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It lasted from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929. It wiped out millions of investors.

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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.

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Russian Revolution took place in the year 1917, during the final phase of World War I. The revolution erupted as a result of Russia’s major military losses during the War, which resulted in much of the Russian Army being ready to mutiny.

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Leapfrogging which is also known as island hopping, was a military strategy employed during World War II by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers.