World History Online Quiz

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Arunachal Pradesh borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It shares international borders with Bhutan in the west, Myanmar in the east, and China in the north at the McMahon Line.

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Blix was also the head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission from March 2000 to June 2003, when he was succeeded by Dimitris Perrikos. In 2002, the commission began searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, ultimately finding none.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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In 343 BC, King Philip called on the great philosopher Aristotle to tutor his son. Aristotle sparked and fostered Alexander’s interest in literature, science, medicine and philosophy.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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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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.

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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.

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Napoleon Bonaparte was born on 15 August 1769, in Ajaccio, on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. He was the second of eight surviving children born to Carlo Buonaparte (1746-1785), a lawyer, and Letizia Romalino Buonaparte (1750-1836).

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

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