World History Online Quiz

The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French people commemorating the alliance of France and the United States during the American Revolution.

The word “Muhajir” simply means an immigrant or refugee in Urdu. Muhajir is the Urdu-speaking segment of Pakistan's population, whose elders migrated from India during Partition in 1947 and they are primarily concentrated in urban Sindh.

The Treaty was opened for signature on 01 July 1968, and signed on that date by the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and 59 other countries. The Treaty entered into force with the deposit of US ratification on 05 March 1970.

On 14 July 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed.

The Hundred Years' War was a war involving a series of conflicts between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France, that took place during the Late Middle Ages, and lasted for a total of 116 years.

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.

American Civil War, a four-year war (1861–65) fought between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery.

Rousseau's theories of sovereignty and law had a direct influence on French revolutionaries.

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

In the late 1950s, Ho Chi Minh organized a communist guerrilla movement in the South, called the Viet Cong. North Vietnam and the Viet Cong successfully opposed a series of ineffectual U.S.-backed South Vietnam regimes and beginning in 1964 withstood a decade-long military intervention by the United States.