Modern World History | Set 5
1. October 30, 1922 - King Victor Emmanuel III invited …………….to form the government
in Rome.
2. January 1930 - General Miguel Primo de Riviera of …………resigned from his office.
3. In 1931 - …………….invaded Manchuria.
4. A Republic was established in ………...under the leadership of Zamora.
5. In 1932 - ………….acquired a German Citizenship.
6. In …………….. The Nazi party acquired 44% seats in the Reichstag (German Parliament)
7. In August …………. - After the death of President Hindenburg, Hitler became an absolute
ruler and is called the Fuehrer.
8. In ………… - Italy invaded Ethiopia.
9. The Second World War can be traced to the Treaty of Versailles, which had been
imposed on……………...
10. In 1931, Japan grabbed Manchuria from…………..
11. World War II began with Hitler’s attack on Poland on September 1,……………...
12. The Anglo-Russian Alliance was formed on July 22, ……………, for mutual military aid in
the war against Germany.
13. The American fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was bombed by the Japanese on December
7,…………..
14. Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of…………..
15. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the President of …………
16. Japan continued to battle until atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
on August 6 and 9, …………….respectively, by the United States.
17. During the Second World War, the Nazi dictator, …………initiated a movement that
aimed at wiping out the whole race of Jews which was called the holocaust.
18. After the war, Japan was placed under the control of the Far Eastern Commission with
General …………….as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces.
19. In 1931 Japan captured…………...
20. In 1938 …………..annexed Austria.
21. September 3, 1939 - Britain and France declared war on ………….
22. September 1939 - ……………..attacked and captured Denmark and Norway.
23. November 30, 1939 - Soviet Union invaded……………...
24. Battle of Britain was in the year………………..
25. December 7, 1941 - …………..attacked Pearl Harbor.
26. December ……………. Germany and Italy declared war on USA.
27. August 1945 - US dropped Atomic bomb on Hiroshima, (6th) and Nagasaki (9th), in ……
28. …………. attacked Poland on September 1, 1939.
29. The U.S.A. entered the Second World War when …….attacked the Pearl Harbor in 1940.
30. The United Nations Organization was established in………………..
31. In August …………… the Atlantic Charter was issued by the U.S. President Roosevelt and
the British Prime Minister Churchill.
32. In October 1944, a scheme for the establishment of an international security
organization was discussed at Dumbarton Oaks Conference held in………………….
33. The Yalta Conference held in 1945 in which the U.S. President Roosevelt, the British
Prime Minister Churchill and the Soviet Prime Minister …………met to resolve to call for a session of the United Nations.
34. ……………started functioning from 24th October, 1945.
35. Headquarters of UNO was at………………...
36. The Security Council is the executive body of the ……………
37. The seat of The International Court of Justice of the U.N.O. is at ……………..in
Netherlands.
38. United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established
in…………….
39. Headquarters of UNICEF is………………….
40. World Health Organization (WHO) was founded in April 1948 with its headquarters
at……………..
41. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was
founded in 1946 with its headquarters at………………...
42. 1941 - The US president Roosevelt and the ……………Prime Minister Churchill issued
declaration called the Atlantic Charter.
43. The UNICEF was established in …………. with its headquarters at New York.
44. November 1946 UNESCO was established with its head quarters at……………..
45. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was set up as the world´s "Atoms for
Peace" organization in …………..within the United Nations family.
46. The post World War II period saw a new kind of international relations set in. It was
neither an era of peace nor of war. The major power blocs were the Western Bloc, led by The United States and Great Britain and, the Eastern Bloc, led by the…………….
47. The term ‘Cold War’ was first coined by Bernard Baruch, an ……………statesman and
later popularized by Professor Lippmann.
48. The Truman Doctrine was announced by President Truman in the American Congress
on March 12,…………..
49. Who declared that the United States must adopt a policy to support free peoples who
were resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures?
50. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in ………….on April 4, 1949.
51. ……………….., a career Foreign Service Officer, formulated the policy of "containment,"
the basic United States strategy for fighting the cold war with the Soviet Union.
52. Harry S. Truman was the president of ………………..
53. Cominform was founded in ………………….
54. Cominform was a Soviet-dominated organization of Communist parties founded in September 1947 at a conference of Communist party leaders in Szklarska
Poręba,………………...
55. The initial seat of Cominform was located in …………….(then the capital of the
Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia).
56. After the expulsion of Yugoslavia from Cominform in June…………….., the seat was
moved to Bucharest, Romania.
57. The Second World War ended in …………. with the defeat of Nazi Germany.
58. In the …………….Agreement of 2 August 1945, the four victorious allies – the USA,
Soviet Union, England and France – decided to divide Germany up into four occupied zones.
59. The Berlin Wall fell in November …………………
60. Germany was reunified on 3 October………………..
61. Under the guidance of Soviet Russia, a founding meeting of the Chinese Communist
party (CCP) was held in ……….in July 1921.
62. On October 1, …………., Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation
of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
63. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in …………. by the United States,
Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
64. South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was formed in………….
65. Which was the Headquarters of SEATO?
66. SEATO was formally disbanded in…………..
67. The Warsaw Treaty Organization (also known as the Warsaw Pact) was a political and
military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the …………….and several Eastern European countries.
68. The Warsaw Pact officially disbanded in March and July of …………. following the
dissolution of the Soviet Union.
69. The ……………..pact was a defensive organization for promoting shared political,
military and economic goals founded in 1955 by Turkey, Iraq, Great Britain, Pakistan and Iran.
70. The main purpose of the …………Pact was to prevent communist incursions and foster
peace in the Middle East.
71. ………………. was renamed the Central Treaty Organization, or CENTO, in 1959 after Iraq
pulled out of the Pact.
72. CENTO was formally disbanded in…………….
73. In…………, the Suez Canal became the focus of a major world conflict.
74. In the late 19th century ………….arose as a nationalist and political movement aimed at
restoring the land of Israel as a national home for the Jewish people.
75. The first Zionist congress took place in 1897 in Basel under the guidance of
……………..journalist Theodor Herzl.
76. Who wrote the book “The Jewish State”?
77. The PLO was created in …………………
78. By 1967 the ………………had decided that their primary goal was the destruction of the
state of Israel.
79. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved on 25th
December,…………..
80. …………….led the USSR from 1962-1982.
81. In 1894 ……………..founded the Chinese Revival society.
82. The Boxer Rebellion in China was in ………………
83. The Manchu dynasty was overthrown in a revolution of …………….
84. Japan captured Manchuria and withdrew from the League of Nations in …………...
85. In 1941 …………..attacked the American Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
86. In 1949 Indonesia becomes independent from …………rule.