World History: Modern MCQs

Category: History Total Questions: 7901 Chapters: 10

Practice chapter-wise MCQs for World History: Modern. This book contains 10 chapters and 7901 questions across easy, medium, and hard difficulty levels.

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📚 Chapters

1. Outbreak of the First World War: The world in 1914

📝 PROLOGUE

📝 THE AGADIR CRISIS (1911)

📝 THE ASSASSINATION OF THE AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND

📝 THE BOSNIA CRISIS (1908)

📝 THE BRITISH AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA (1907)

📝 THE FIRST BALKAN WAR (1912)

📝 THE MOROCCAN CRISIS (1905-6)

📝 THE WORLD IN 1914

📝 WHAT CAUSED THE WAR, AND WHO WAS TO BLAME?

491 Qs

2. The First World War and its aftermath

📝 Allied treatment of defeated powers

📝 Battle of Jutland (31 May 1916)

📝 David Lloyd George becomes British prime minister (December 1916)

📝 Eastern Front 1917

📝 Effects of the First World War

📝 German Objections

📝 In the east 1916

📝 In the west 1917

📝 Stalemate in the west 1915

📝 The Allied blockade caused problems

📝 The Allied counter-offensive (8 August)

📝 The Allies Navies

📝 The east 1915

📝 The eastern front 1914

📝 The entry of the USA (April 1917)

📝 The German spring offensive, 1918

📝 The Germans retaliated with mines and submarine attacks

📝 THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES WITH GERMANY

📝 The War at Sea

📝 The western front 1914

📝 Treaty of Neuilly (1919)

📝 Treaty of Sèvres (1920)

📝 Treaty of St Germain (1919)

📝 Treaty of Trianon (1920), dealing with Hungary

📝 Treaty of Versailles with Germany

📝 Unrestricted submarine warfare (began January 1917)

📝 Unrestricted submarine warfare (began January 1918)

📝 VERDICT ON THE PEACE SETTLEMENT

📝 War Aims: Problems of Making a Peace Settlement

📝 Western Front 1916

659 Qs

3. The League of Nations

📝 Commissions And Committees in League of Nations

📝 It Was Too Closely Linked With The Versailles Treaties

📝 It Was Very Much A French/British Affair

📝 It Would Be Unfair To Dismiss The League of Nations As A Total Failure

📝 Italian Invasion of Abyssinia

📝 Japanese Invasion of Manchuria (1931)

📝 League of Nations

📝 League of Nations Failure

📝 Origins of the League of Nations

📝 Other Important Powers Were Not Involved in League of Nations

📝 Permanent Court of International Justice

📝 Political Disputes Resolved

📝 Political Disputes Resolved by League of Nations

📝 Successes of The League of Nations

📝 The Conference Of Ambassadors In Paris Was An Embarrassment

📝 The Council of the League of Nations

📝 The Failure Of The World Disarmament Conference (1932‑3)

📝 The General Assembly of the League of Nations

📝 The Secretariat

📝 The World Economic Crisis Began In 1929

📝 There Were Serious Weaknesses In The Covenant

458 Qs

4. International relations 1919-33

📝 Austria: From Empire to Small Republic (1919–1933)

📝 Czechoslovakia: A Democratic Island in Central Europe

📝 France Dealing With Germany Between 1919 And 1923

📝 France Dealing With Germany Between 1919 And 1933

📝 France's Network of Alliances and the League of Nations

📝 France's Shift Towards Compromise and Reconciliation with Germany

📝 France's Strategy to Keep Germany Weak After World War I

📝 France's Tougher Stance: Occupation and Confrontation (1923–1933)

📝 Hungary: Territory Lost and Revisionist Aspirations (1919–1933)

📝 International relations 1919 33

📝 International Relations from 1919 to 1933: An Overview

📝 Poland: The Rebirth of a Nation (1919–1933)

📝 Soviet British Relations from 1919 to 1933

📝 Soviet French Relations from 1919 to 1933

📝 Soviet Relations with Britain, Germany, and France: An Overview (1919–1933)

📝 The Dawes Plan

📝 The Early Post-War Years: International Relations from 1919 to 1923

📝 The Genoa Conference of 1922: Bridging East and West

📝 The Great Depression Era: International Relations from 1930 to 1933

📝 The Kellogg Briand Pact of 1928: Outlawing War

📝 The League of Nations

📝 The Locarno Treaties 1925

📝 The Mid-Decade Recovery: International Relations from 1924 to 1929

📝 The Successor States of Post-War Europe: An Introduction

📝 The Washington Naval Conferences of 1921–1922

📝 The World Disarmament Conference of 1932–1933

📝 The Young Plan of 1929: The Final Reparations Settlement

📝 United States Foreign Policy from 1919 to 1933

📝 Yugoslavia: The Creation and Challenges of a New Kingdom

660 Qs

5. International Relations 1933-1939

📝 A Policy of Concession: Understanding Appeasement

📝 A Series of Nazi Diplomatic Victories 1933-38

📝 Escalation in Asia: Japan's Further Invasions of China

📝 Expanding the Empire: The Japanese Advance from Manchuria

📝 Hitler and the Abyssinian Crisis After 1934

📝 Hitler's Grand Strategy

📝 Hitler's Responsibility: The Architect of Global Conflict

📝 Impact of Appeasement on European Affairs (1933-39)

📝 Is the Appeasers to Blame for World War 2

📝 Munich Agreement and Fall of Czechoslovakia

📝 Mussolini's Foreign Policy

📝 Phase One (1923-1934): Rivalry, Diplomacy, and the Fear of Germany

📝 The Case for Appeasement

📝 The Final Gambit: The Crisis over Poland

📝 The Outbreak of War: Was it Hitler's Fault or the Appeasers' Failure?

📝 The Path to World War II: International Relations 1933-1939

📝 The Role of the USSR in the Outbreak of War

📝 The Seeds of Conflict: Japan's 1931 Invasion of Manchuria

473 Qs

6. The Second World War 1939-1945

📝 Achievements Of Allied Air Power

📝 Allied Air Bombing Of German And Japanese Cities In Ww2

📝 Allies Learning From Their Mistakes And Failures In WW2

📝 Axis Powers Taking On Too Much Britain And Russia

📝 British Naval Forces Successes In World War 2

📝 Brutal Behaviour By Germans And Japanese In Conquered Territories

📝 Decolonization After World War 2

📝 Denmark And Norway Invaded April 1940

📝 El Alamein October 1942 Defeat Of Axis Forces By Britain

📝 Emergence Of The Superpowers After World War 2

📝 Enormous Destruction In World War 2

📝 Europe’s Domination After World War 2

📝 France Defeated By Germany Early Than Expected

📝 Genocide Of Jews

📝 Hitler Attacks Holland, Belgium And France

📝 Hitler’s Invasion In North Africa And Greece

📝 Is World War 2 Caused Of Nuclear Weapons

📝 Midway Island June 1942 Defeat Of Axis Forces By Americans

📝 Mussolini Invades Egypt September 1940

📝 No All Inclusive Peace Settlement In World War 2

📝 Operation Overlord 6 June 1944

📝 Poland Defeated September 1939 To December 1940

📝 Serious Tactical Mistakes By Axis Forces

📝 Shortage Of Raw Materials Cause Of Lose The War

📝 Stalingrad Defeat Of Axis Forces By Russia

📝 The ‘Final Solution’ Of Hitler’s Holocaust

📝 The ‘Phoney War’ September 1939 To December 1940

📝 The Assault On Germany

📝 The Battle Of Britain (12 August To 30 September 1940)

📝 The Battle Of The Atlantic And Allied Naval Forces Role

📝 The Combined Resources Of The Allied Forces

📝 The Defeat Of Japan

📝 The Emergence Of The United Nations Organization

📝 The Fall Of Italy Of Axis Forces

📝 The Functionalists Holocaust

📝 The German Invasion Of Russia (Operation Barbarossa)

📝 The Intentionalists Holocaust

📝 The Second World War 1939-45

📝 The Unconditional Surrender Of Germany, Italy And Japan

📝 The USA Enters The War December 1941

📝 World War 2 Stimulated Important Social Changes

1084 Qs

7. The Cold War: Problems of International Relations after the Second World War

📝 A Thaw After 1953

📝 Cold War Thaw

📝 Communism established in eastern Europe

📝 Differences of principle cause of Cold War

📝 More nuclear weapons in Cold War Era

📝 Protests against nuclear weapons

📝 Reasons for the thaw

📝 Stalin’s foreign policies contributed to the tensions to Cold War

📝 The Arms race continues into the 1970s

📝 The Berlin blockade and airlift (June 1948 to May 1949)

📝 The Cold War

📝 The Cominform (1948)

📝 The communist takeover of Czechoslovakia (February 1948)

📝 The Cuban Missiles Crisis (1962)

📝 The East and West Germany

📝 The formation of NATO

📝 The Nuclear Arms Race (1962)

📝 The Potsdam Conference (July 1945)

📝 The Russians continued to tighten their grip on eastern Europe

📝 The thaw was only partial

📝 The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

📝 The Yalta Conference (February 1945) beginning of Cold War

📝 US and British politicians were hostile to the Soviet government

607 Qs

8. The Spread of Communism Outside Europe and its Effects on International Relations

📝 Allende overthrown from presidency

📝 Allende’s policies for Chile

📝 Castro and his polices

📝 Castro into power in Cuba

📝 China and the US relations in 1970 to 1990

📝 Communism and Europe After Cold War 1988 to 1991

📝 Cuba’s foreign relations during Castro’s regime

📝 Détente and its Reasons

📝 Effects Vietnam War in the region

📝 Historical Background of the Korean war

📝 International Relations After Cold War 1988 to 1991

📝 Korean war Result

📝 Salvador Allende come to power in Chile 1970 to 1973

📝 The phases of Vietnam civil War

📝 The US and the USSR relations in 1970 to 1990

📝 United States Intervention in Africa

📝 United States Intervention in South East Asia

📝 United States Intervention in The Middle East

📝 US failure in Vietnam War

📝 US intervention in Korean War

📝 US involvement in Vietnam civil War

📝 USSR and China relations in 1970 to 1990

📝 Vietnam War’s 1946 to 1954 AND 1961 to 1975

📝 Why did the North Koreans invade the South?

761 Qs

9. The United Nations Organization

📝 Bosnia and UN peacekeeping after Cold War

📝 Cambodia/Kampuchea and UN peacekeeping after Cold War

📝 Civil war in the Congo (1960 to 1964) UN peacekeeping efforts

📝 Cyprus UN peacekeeping efforts

📝 Financial and economic agencies and UN

📝 Future of United Nations

📝 Iraq the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and UN peacekeeping after Cold War

📝 Kashmir UN peacekeeping efforts

📝 Mozambique and UN peacekeeping after Cold War

📝 Palestine (1947) UN peacekeeping efforts

📝 Resource Wasting among agencies by UN

📝 Shortage of funds: Problem of UN

📝 Somalia and UN peacekeeping after Cold War

📝 The 1991 Gulf War and UN peacekeeping after Cold War

📝 The Czechoslovak crisis (1968) UN peacekeeping efforts

📝 The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of United Nations

📝 The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UN

📝 The General Assembly of United Nations

📝 The Human Rights Commission and UN

📝 The Hungarian Rising (1956) UN peacekeeping efforts

📝 The increasing membership of the UN from the 1970s

📝 The International Court of Justice

📝 The International Criminal Court (ICC)

📝 The International Labour Organization (ILO) and UN

📝 The Iran Iraq War (1980 to 1988) and UN peacekeeping efforts

📝 The Korean War (1950 to 1953) UN peacekeeping efforts

📝 The lack of a permanent UN army

📝 The Lebanon and UN peacekeeping efforts

📝 The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and UN

📝 The Secretariat of United Nations

📝 The Security Council of United Nations

📝 The Suez Crisis (1956) UN peacekeeping efforts

📝 The Trusteeship Council of United Nations

📝 The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

📝 The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

📝 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and UN

📝 The World Health Organization (WHO) and UN

📝 Weakness of UN like Leauge of Nations

📝 West New Guinea (1946) UN peacekeeping efforts

📝 When should the UN become involved?

📝 Why United Nation more successful than The League of Nations

1342 Qs

10. The Two Europes: East and West since 1945

📝 Britain and the EC budget

📝 Britain decides to join European Economic Community (EEC)

📝 Civil War in Yugoslavia

📝 Conflict in Kosovo

📝 Crisis in Poland 1956

📝 Czechoslovakia and Communism Collapse in Eastern Europe

📝 Direct elections to the European parliament (1979)

📝 Eastern Europe after collapse of communism

📝 Economic failure and Communism Collapse in Eastern Europe

📝 Economic, Military and political co-operation of Europe

📝 European Community Evolution

📝 European Community membership and its growth

📝 Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) 1979

📝 France: The State of Western Europe

📝 Germany reunited and Communism Collapse in Eastern Europe

📝 Greater integration: the Maastricht Treaty (1991)

📝 Italy: The State of Western Europe

📝 Maastricht agreement 1991: Enlargement and reform to EU

📝 Mikhail Gorbachev and Communism Collapse in Eastern Europe

📝 Organization of the Communist bloc

📝 Poland and Communism Collapse in Eastern Europe

📝 Tensions in the Eastern bloc

📝 The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in EC

📝 The Communism Collapse and the rest of eastern Europe

📝 The communist bloc collapse in Europe

📝 The crisis in Czechoslovakia (1968)

📝 The downfall of Milošević

📝 The EC developments changes 1986

📝 The European Economic Community (EEC): Six becomes the Nine (1973)

📝 The Future of the European Union

📝 The German Federal Republic (West Germany)

📝 The Hungarian Revolution (1956)

📝 The idea of a Unified Europe and what Britain holds back

📝 The Lomé Convention (1975)

📝 The machinery of the European Community

📝 The peaceful revolution spreads to Hungary

📝 The Serb Croat War

📝 The Treaty of Nice

📝 The Treaty of Nice and Problems and tensions

📝 The war in Bosnia Herzegovina

📝 Why The French oppose British entry into the European Economic Community (EEC)

📝 Why Western Europe want more unity

1366 Qs