World History Quiz

What event triggered the start of World War I in 1914?

• Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• Bombing of Pearl Harbor

• Signing of the Treaty of Versailles

• Bolshevik Revolution

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Joseph Stalin

• Vladimir Lenin

• Leonid Brezhnev

Which country was divided into East and West following World War II?

• Germany

• France

• Italy

• Japan

Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903?

• Marie Curie

• Rosalind Franklin

• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

• Lise Meitner

Which US president initiated the New Deal in response to the Great Depression?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover

• Calvin Coolidge

• Woodrow Wilson

What event marked the end of the Cold War in 1989?

• Fall of the Berlin Wall

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

Who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule?

• Mahatma Gandhi

• Jawaharlal Nehru

• Subhas Chandra Bose

• Indira Gandhi

What was the name of the US policy aimed at containing the spread of communism during the Cold War?

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

Who was the founder of the Chinese Communist Party?

• Mao Zedong

• Deng Xiaoping

• Chiang Kai-shek

• Sun Yat-sen

Which treaty officially ended World War I in 1919?

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

• Treaty of Trianon

• Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye