World History MCQs

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Halimah al-Sa’diyah who is also called Hazrat Haleema was the foster-mother of the prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam or Mohammedanism. Halimah and her husband were from the tribe of Sa’d b. Bakr, which was a subdivision of Hawazin.

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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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The First World War began in 1914 and ended in 1918. It was a unique War as it made all regions of the world, take part in it, either directly or indirectly. The great wars of Napoleon’s time were limited only to Europe.

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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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25 January Revolution is also known as the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. This revolution involved protests and demonstrations using civil disobedience and civil resistance methods by various youth groups against the dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak, the then President of Egypt; police brutality; emergency laws; political censorship; corruption; unemployment; low wages and food inflation etc. This revolution spanned from 25 January 2011 to 11 February 2011 which lead to the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak’s government.

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The War of the First Coalition is the traditional name of wars that several European powers fought between 1792 and 1797 against initially the Kingdom of France and then the French Republic that succeeded it. They were only loosely allied and fought without much apparent coordination or agreement, each power had its eye on a deficient part of France it wanted to appropriate after a French defeat, which never occurred.

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The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was fought from 13 March to 7 May 1954 in Dien Bien Phu, a city of Vietnam in the then French Indochina region. It was a climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War which was fought between the French Unions French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries. This war leads to the decisive Viet Minh victory.

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The Red Army invasion of Georgia (15 February – 17 March 1921), also known as the Soviet–Georgian War or the Soviet invasion of Georgia, which forms part of the Russian Civil War and Turkish War of Independence, was a military campaign by the Russian Red Army aimed at overthrowing the Social-Democratic government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia and installing a Bolshevik regime in the country. The conflict was a result of an expansionist policy by the Russians, who aimed to control as much as possible of the lands which had been part of the former Russian Empire until the turbulent events of the First World War, as well as the revolutionary efforts of mostly Russian-based Georgian Bolsheviks, who did not have sufficient support in their native country to seize power without external intervention.

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The German Revolution of 1918-1919 or November Revolution, happened as part of the Revolutions of 1917–1923 and political violence in Germany (1918–33), was a civil conflict in the German Empire at the end of the First World War that resulted in the replacement of the German federal constitutional monarchy with a democratic parliamentary republic that later became known as the Weimar Republic. The revolutionary period lasted from November 1918 until the adoption in August 1919 of the Weimar Constitution. It leads to the Weimar Republic victory, abdication of Emperor Wilhelm II, the monarchy of Germany and its 22 constituent monarchies abolished, suppression of leftist uprisings, including Spartacist uprising, end of the First World War and the establishment of the Weimar Republic.