World History Online Quiz

The increase in trade, mode of production urbanization during industrialization led to the fall of feudalism and the rise of capitalism in England.

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel was a German general and military theorist. Popularly known as the Desert Fox, he served as field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as serving in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and the army of Imperial Germany.

On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence, announcing the colonies' separation from Great Britain.

1. Sir Winston Churchill died on 24 January 1965.
2. Alaska became the 49th State of the USA on 3 January 1959.
3. China and Pakistan had signed a frontier treaty on 2 March 1963.
4. The first earth satellite (Sputnik 1) was launched by the USSR on 4 October 1957.

In 1919, Mussolini founded the Italian Fasces of Combat in Milan, which became the National Fascist Party two years later.

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The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.

“Man is born free but everywhere is in chains.” This quote made the Geneva-born political philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, world-famous.

The Nuremberg Trial and the Tokyo War Crimes Trials (1945–1948) Following World War II, the victorious Allied governments established the first international criminal tribunals to prosecute high-level political officials and military authorities for war crimes and other wartime atrocities.

Plato, Machiavelli and Herbert Spencer are thinkers who influenced Fascism. The Greek philosopher Plato supported many similar political positions to fascism. Niccolo Machiavelli is known to have influenced Italian Fascism, particularly through his promotion of the absolute authority of the state.