World History Online Quiz

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

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

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 concept of political sovereignty was advocated by Rousseau. Rousseau uses the term 'sovereign' as a label for the person holding the supreme power in a state. This confirms the fundamental notion of sovereignty that a sovereign has absolute and inalienable power overs its subjects.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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