Modern World in Transition | Set 3
1. The ……………..-Japanese War (1904-1905) had shaken the foundation of the Tsarist regime.
2. On Sunday, 22nd January …………….. in Russia, a peaceful march of the workers led by Father
George Gapon was fired at and thousands of people were murdered.
3. A provisional government under the leadership of Kerensky, the leader of the Mensheviks,
was set up in………….
4. ……………became the Father of the Bolshevik Revolution of Russia.
5. The First International was founded in 1864 in a workmen's meeting held in Saint Martin's Hall,……………...
6. The First International’s first congress was held in …………. in Geneva.
7. The Second International was formed in ………………
8. The Comintern was also known as the …………….International.
9. The Comintern was an international Communist organization founded in March 1919 by ……………
10. The Comintern was an international Communist organization founded in March … by Lenin
11. The Comintern was officially dissolved on 15th May 1943, by ……………….
12. The Comintern was officially dissolved on 15th May ……………, by Stalin.
13. In ………….. the Cominform, or Communist Information Bureau, was created as a substitute
of the Comintern.
14. The Cominform was dissolved in…………………..
15. Francisco-De-Miranda, a Venezuelan patriot played a prominent role in the freedom
struggle of………………….
16. …………….was an outstanding leader of the Latin America liberation movement.
17. Who was hailed as the Liberator and George Washington of South America?
18. Jose San Martin was a great patriot and freedom fighter who led the revolutionary movement in……………….
19. Father Hidalgo, a priest who led the national movement in…………...
20. Mexico gained freedom from ……………in 1821.
21. The wave of freedom movement in the Spanish colonies affected the ………colony of Brazil.
22. In October of……………, a group of revolutionaries in southern China led a successful revolt
against the Qing Dynasty, establishing in its place the Republic of China and ending the imperial system.
23. The Kuomintang Party of …………………..revolted against the Manchu ruler and compelled him to abdicate on 12th February 1912 A.D.
24. After the death of Dr. Sun Yat Sen his trusted disciple ……………..led the army of the Kuomintang.
25. The strife between the nationalists and the communist in china was fully utilized by Japan
and in 1931 she captured……………….
26. In 1949 the whole mainland of China was captured by the communists and Chiang-Kai-Sheik
evacuated to the Island of…………..
27. Under ……………..the Chinese Peoples’ Republic was established in 1949 with Peking (new Beijing) as the Capital.
28. Mao Tse-tung founded the People's Republic of China in……………...
29. The Chinese Communist party was founded in………………..
30. ……………….was born on Dec. 26, 1893, into a well-to-do peasant family in Shao-shan, Hunan province.
31. When First World War broke out?
32. Woodrow Wilson was the president of ………………
33. ……………….united the scattered German States into a mighty empire and placed Germany
on the road of aggressive nationalism.
34. In 1907……………, France and Russia formed the “Triple Entente” for their protection against
the “Triple Alliance” formed by Germany, Austria and Italy.
35. Serbia brought forward “the Great Serbian Scheme”, to unite ……………and Herzegovina with her, since they were having a common culture and common race.
36. The Architecture-Duke, Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne was murdered
with his wife on 28th June 1914 while on a visit to Sarajevo, the capital of……………….
37. It was the Fascist party spearheaded by Benito Mussolini, the journalist and Ex-socialist,
which repudiated democracy and established dictatorship in……………..
38. ……………. was socialist in the beginning and was the editor of the Official socialist
Newspaper, the ‘Avanti’.
39. After the First World War ………………..organized the National Fascist Party in November
1921 and subsequently became the high priest of Fascism.
40. …………….is a Latin word meaning bundle of Rods.
41. Born in 1839, as the son of a customs officer, ……………became an orphan at an early age and won his bread by working as a painter and an architect.
42. The Nazi party took the biography of ……………known as the ‘Mein Kamp’ (My struggle) as the bible.
43. The flag of the ……………party was red with white circle and black Swastika at the middle – a
symbol of Aryan supremacy.
44. The Secret Policy known as ‘the Gestapo’ promptly reported every matter to……………...
45. ………………. added an “Aryan paragraph” to the Old Testament and appointed his own man, Ludwig Muller, as the Bishop of Germany.
46. …………….tore away the Treaty of Versailles and entered into military pacts such as Nazi- Soviet Pact, Anglo-German Naval Agreement and ultimately Rome-Berlin Tokyo Axis.
47. Second World War broke out in…………...
48. U.S.A. initially kept aloof but the attack on the U.S.A. Naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, ……………by Japan forced her to declare war on Japan.
49. On August 6, ………….the first Atom Bomb exploded in Hiroshima shocking the whole world.
50. Japan surrendered on 2nd September………………..
51. The U.N.O. took its birth on 24th October…………..
52. The League of Nations was the ‘brain-child’ of the American President,………………..
53. The UNESCO was established on November 4, 1946 with head quarters at……………….
54. The Food and Agricultural Organization (F.A.O.) was established in October 16, 1945 with
head quarters at…………….
55. World Health Organization (W.H.O) was established on April 7, 1948 with head quarters at……………..
56. The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF): was formed in 1946
with its head quarters at…………..
57. The term "third world" was coined by economist …………………..in an article in the French
magazine L'Observateur of August 14, 1952.
58. The term "third world" was coined by economist Alfred Sauvy in an article in the ……………….magazine L'Observateur of August 14, 1952.
59. The term "third world" was coined by economist Alfred Sauvy in an article in the French
magazine L'Observateur of August 14,……………...
60. The Soviet Union was collapsed in the year ………….