Modern World in Transition | Set 2
1. ‘Bills of Rights’ was in the year………………….
2. The Bloodless Revolution of 1688 was a great land mark in the constitutional history of…..
3. Bloodless Revolution of …………… resulted in the supremacy of the parliament and gave a
blow to Absolute Monarchy in England.
4. Bloodless Revolution of ……… marked the end of the struggle between king and parliament.
5. The American Revolution or the War of American Independence broke out in the year …….. A.D during the reign of the English King George III and came to a close in 1783 A.D.
6. The British conquest of Canada after the Seven Year War reduced the …………………danger
and hence the colonies turned against England.
7. The immediate cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party in …………. A.D.
8. The colonial army Commanded by ……………..trapped the British army at York Town and
forced Lord Cornwallis, the Commander-in-Chief of the British forces to surrender in 1781.
9. The colonial army Commanded by George Washington trapped the British army at York
Town and forced………………, the Commander-in-Chief of the British forces to surrender in 1781.
10. Louis XVI was completely under the control of his beautiful but proud, willful and wicked
queen Marie Antoinette who was notorious for her unsympathetic attitude towards the people.
11. ‘The Social Contract’ was the work of ……………..
12. "Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains"is the words of ………………..
13. ……………….'s most famous work was ‘A Treatise for Toleration’.
14. ………………….’s main work was ‘The Spirit of the Laws’ (1753).
15. In 1765, ………………published his first work on mathematics entitled Essai sur le calcul
intégral, which was very well received, launching his career as a respected mathematician.
16. In 1785, ……………..wrote the Essay on the Application of Analysis to the Probability of
Majority Decisions, one of his most important works.
17. Fall of Bastille in the year 14th July ………………
18. On 23rd September, ……………, the king was deposed and France became a Republic.
19. On 21st January …………. Louis XVI of France was guillotined.
20. Guillotine was invented by Ignacio Guillotine, a ………….physician.
21. …………………… Connected with the reign of terror in France.
22. …………….was the child of French Revolution and the hero of France.
23. ……………was born in the Island of Corsica in Italy on 15th August 1769.
24. Corsica was captured by ……………..in 1768 A.D.
25. “I was born when my country was dying”. Who said?
26. In 1796, when he was 27 years of age, ……………married Josephine, a rich widow of a nobleman.
27. In 1804 A.D …………….established the Bank of France which became “the Soundest financial
institution of the World”.
28. ……………said, ‘my real glory is not having won 40 battles…..what will endure for ever is my
civil code’.
29. In 1801 A.D ……………..signed an agreement with pope Pius VII known as Concordat.
30. In the Battle of Waterloo on 12th June 1815 A.D …………was decisively defeated by the Duke
of Wellington.
31. ……………was exiled to the Island of St. Helena where he died in 1821 A.D.
32. Sir Isaac Newton was an …………….physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist,
inventor, and natural philosopher.
33. In his work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, …………..enunciated his law of
universal gravitation and three laws of motion.
34. It was with …………….that Wordsworth published the famous Lyrical Ballads in 1798.
35. ………………..'s most famous work, The Prelude (1850), is considered by many to be the
crowning achievement of English romanticism.
36. English Romantic poet ………………was born on October 31, 1795, in London.
37. Who the editor of the ‘Examiner’?
38. …………….was author of the ‘Prometheus Unbound’.
39. ………………..was born in Leiden on July 15, 1606.
40. The patriots of ……………….set up several secret societies such as ‘Carbonari’ to regain their
independence.
41. Metternich was the chancellor of ………………..
42. The unification of Italy was accomplished mostly by the heroic efforts of the Italian patriots supported by the ruler of Sardinia, …………………
43. In 1831 A.D. ………………established an organization known as YOUNG ITALY the motto of
which was ‘God and people’.
44. ………………..was “the Master brain” of the Italian Unification.
45. Victor Immanuel II became the king of ………………after the abdication of Charles Albert.
46. Napoleon III, the French king helped ……………in her war against Austria which led to the
annexation of Lombardy.
47. ‘The sword of the Unification’ of Italy was……………..
48. …………….was the leader of ‘the Red Shirts’ in Italy.
49. By …………… A.D. the whole of Italy except the Papal States and Venetia was united and the
ruler of Sardinia.
50. In 1866 A.D. Italy received Venetia as a reward for supporting ……………against Austria in the Seven Weeks War.
51. In 1870 A.D. When Napoleon III, the French king withdrew his army from the Papal States on the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, the Italian army captured ……………and made it the capital of the Unified State of Italy.
52. In 1800 Austria was defeated by …………..which combined the German States into the confederation of Rhine.
53. The Congress of Vienna (1815 A.D) changed Germany into a confederation of 39 states under the control of……………..
54. The teachers and students of the ……………University formed the secret Committee called “BRUSCHEN SHAFI” to preach nationalism.
55. Metternich, the iron chancellor of …………..crushed the spirit of liberalism and controlled
the activities of the patriots and liberal leaders of Germany.
56. The …………unification preceded the political unification in Germany.
57. In 1819 ……………..formed an economic union with 12 states and in 1834 a customs Union or
Zolleverein was established by 18 states excluding Austria.
58. Metternich had fled to ……………in the midst of mounting opposition.
59. On 21st March …………… the Frankfurt Assembly was summoned to take decisions regarding
the unification of Germany and to frame a democratic constitution.
60. The Frankfurt Assembly decided to exclude Austria from the united Germany and offered
the throne of Germany to Frederick William IV of…………………...
61. In ………… A.D. William I became the King of Prussia.
62. …………….. thought that only a powerful army could bring fame and glory as well as unity to
Germany.
63. Who fixed the straight path of war and not the long and zigzag path of democracy for the
unification of Germany under the leadership of Prussia?
64. In 1872 A.D. …………..was made the Chancellor or Prime minister of Germany by William I.
65. Who believed that diplomacy without weapons is like music without instruments?
66. ……………… believed that the great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and resolutions of the majorities but by “Blood and Iron”.
67. Bismarck resorted to wars to achieve the unification of Germany under Prussia. The first
war was with …………in 1864 A.D.
68. Bismarck made an alliance with ……………with the promise of equal share of spoils of War,
and invaded Denmark.
69. After a brief War Schleswig was united with …………..and Holstein was given to Austria.
70. The long awaited War between Austria and ……………began on the question of the division
of spoils of the War with Denmark.
71. At the battle of Sadova (1866 A.D) the Austrians were defeated and by the Treaty of
Prague, ……………became the leader of the North German confederation.
72. By the Treaty of Frankfurt in May ……………. A.D. France ceded Alsace and Lorraine to
Prussia in addition to a huge was compensation.
73. On the 18th January ……….. A.D. the Prussian king William I was proclaimed “Kaiser”
(Emperor) in the Hall of Mirrors of the palace of Versailles.
74. The Meiji Restoration was a political and social revolution in ……………..in 1866-69.
75. The Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) developed out of the rivalry between Russia and Japan
for dominance in Korea and………………..
76. Theodore Roosevelt was the President of………………..
77. Abraham Lincoln as the President of ……………………
78. On April 14, ………………Abraham Lincoln the president of America was assassinated by an
unemployed actor of the south.
79. ……………….arose in the late 18th and early 19th century as a reaction to the economic and
social changes associated with the Industrial Revolution.
80. In the 1840s the term ………………..came into use to denote loosely a militant leftist form of
socialism.
81. In………….., Marx and Engels wrote the famous Communist Manifesto, in which they set
forth the principles of what Marx called "scientific socialism."
82. Christian socialism was led in ……………by Frederick Denison Maurice and Charles Kingsley.
83. Ferdinand Lassalle was founder of the first workers' party in ………………..(1863).
84. In………….., Eduard Bernstein denied the inevitability of class conflict; he called for a
revision of Marxism that would allow an evolutionary socialism.
85. In………….., Bernstein's chief opponent, Karl Kautsky, insisted that the Social Democratic
party adhere strictly to orthodox Marxist principles.
86. In ……………..the Fabian Society, founded in 1884, set forth basic principles of evolutionary socialism.
87. The most momentous split took place in the …………….Social Democratic Labor party, which
divided into the rival camps of Bolshevism and Menshevism.
88. It was the revolutionary opponents of gradualism, the Bolsheviks, who seized power in the
Russian Revolution of ……………….
89. The Paris Commune, functioning between March 18 to May 28 of………………, was spawned
by the Franco-Prussian war.
90. The Russian Revolution of ……………. was the first successful Communist Revolution of the
world.
91. The roots of the Russian Revolution lay deep in the despotic old fashioned and oppressive rule of the unpopular Tsar……………….
92. ……………….was influenced by the inner circle of the imperial court including the Tsarina and
the Holy Devil, Rasputin.
93. …………….., an extreme sort of liberalism, questioned everything bowed before no authority
and aimed at destroying the existing Russian order.
94. Whose weapons were books and bombs and the motto was “go among the people”?
95. ………………was the author of “the Poor” and “Mother”.
96. ………… was the author of “War and Peace” and “Anna Karina”.
97. ………………was the author of “Fathers and Sons”.
98. ………………… was the author of “Crime and punishment”
99. The Mensheviks led by ……………stood for peaceful and constitutional methods to destroy
autocracy.
100. The Bolsheviks led by …………….stood for Marxian ideas.