World History Online Quiz

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

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The three principal partners in the Axis alliance were Germany, Italy, and Japan. These three countries recognized German domination over most of continental Europe; Italian domination over the Mediterranean Sea; and Japanese domination over East Asia and the Pacific.

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.

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.

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.

Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.

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

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.

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.