World History Online Quiz

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.

Anti-Semitism, hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group.

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.

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.

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

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 Non-Aligned Movement was formally established in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, through an initiative of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah and Indonesian President Sukarno.

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

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

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.