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  • 1. In which year did the Left SR uprising occur?
A) 1917
B) 1921
C) 1918
D) 1920
  • 2. The Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict took place between which years?
A) 1921–1922
B) 1918–1919
C) 1917–1918
D) 1920–1921
  • 3. Which rebellion occurred in 1921 as a left-wing uprising against the Bolsheviks?
A) Tambov Rebellion
B) Kronstadt Rebellion
C) Slutsk uprising
D) Ganja rebellion
  • 4. The Estonian War of Independence occurred between which years?
A) 1918–1920
B) 1919–1921
C) 1920–1922
D) 1917–1919
  • 5. The Slutsk uprising took place in what year?
A) 1919
B) 1920
C) 1918
D) 1921
  • 6. The Belarusian Democratic Republic existed from which years?
A) 1919–1920
B) 1920–1921
C) 1917–1918
D) 1918–1919
  • 7. The Christmas Uprising occurred in what year?
A) 1919
B) 1921
C) 1920
D) 1918
  • 8. The North Caucasian Emirate existed between which years?
A) 1917–1918
B) 1918–1919
C) 1920–1921
D) 1919–1920
  • 9. The Democratic Republic of Georgia existed between which years?
A) 1918–1921
B) 1919–1922
C) 1918–1920
D) 1917–1920
  • 10. When did the Polish–Soviet War take place?
A) 1920–1922
B) 1919–1921
C) 1918–1920
D) 1917–1919
  • 11. The Champaran Satyagraha occurred in what year?
A) 1917
B) 1920
C) 1918
D) 1919
  • 12. The Beer Hall Putsch took place in what year?
A) 1923
B) 1920
C) 1921
D) 1922
  • 13. The Rif War occurred between which years?
A) 1919–1923
B) 1922–1927
C) 1921–1926
D) 1920–1924
  • 14. What does 'Sette Giugno' translate to in English?
A) Seven of June
B) Seven of July
C) Second of June
D) Six of June
  • 15. What was one of the primary triggers for the Sette Giugno riots in Malta?
A) The arrival of the Ottoman navy
B) The ban on international trade
C) The dissolution of the monarchy
D) The rising cost of living
  • 16. Where was the National Assembly formed during the Maltese riots?
A) Valletta
B) Mdina
C) Gozo
D) Sliema
  • 17. How many local men were killed by British forces during the Sette Giugno riots?
A) Six
B) Ten
C) Two
D) Four
  • 18. Which event led to the Egyptian revolution of 1919?
A) The invasion by Italy
B) The closing of the Suez Canal
C) The death of King Fuad
D) The exile of Saad Zaghloul
  • 19. What was the name of the mission initiated by Britain following the 1919 Egyptian revolution?
A) The Milner Mission
B) The Suez Commission
C) The Cairo Protocol
D) The Zaghloul Accord
  • 20. In which year did Britain recognize Egyptian independence?
A) 1923
B) 1920
C) 1919
D) 1922
  • 21. What territory did Britain retain control of after Egyptian independence in 1922?
A) The entire Nile Delta
B) Only the city of Alexandria
C) The Ethiopian border
D) Sudan and the Canal Zone
  • 22. Who inherited the Egyptian throne at age 16 following the death of King Fuad?
A) Saad Zaghloul
B) Faisal I
C) Farouk
D) Mehdi Al-Khalissi
  • 23. What triggered the signing of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty by King Farouk?
A) The end of World War I
B) A shortage of food supplies
C) The rise of the Wafd Party
D) The Second Italo-Ethiopian War
  • 24. Where did the Iraqi Revolt of 1920 begin?
A) Najaf
B) Syria
C) The Euphrates valley
D) Baghdad
  • 25. What were the British taxes imposed at Najaf that fueled the Iraqi Revolt?
A) Import and export tariffs
B) Income and property taxes
C) Water and electricity taxes
D) Land ownership and burial taxes
  • 26. Who was a prominent Shia leader of the Iraqi revolt?
A) Sheikh Mehdi Al-Khalissi
B) Faisal I
C) King Fuad
D) Saad Zaghloul
  • 27. What military tactics did the British use to suppress the Iraqi revolt?
A) Poison gas and chemical weapons
B) Heavy artillery and aerial bombardment
C) Naval blockades and starvation
D) Diplomatic sanctions and trade embargoes
  • 28. Who was installed as the King of Iraq following the political resolution of the revolt?
A) Mehdi Al-Khalissi
B) Farouk
C) Faisal I
D) Saad Zaghloul
  • 29. What was a major goal of the Iraqi revolution?
A) Reinstatement of Ottoman rule
B) Independence from British rule
C) Annexation of the Suez Canal
D) Expansion into Syrian territory
  • 30. What happened to the British Mandate for Mesopotamia after the Iraqi revolt?
A) It was cancelled
B) It was transferred to Italy
C) It was expanded
D) It was rebranded as a colony
  • 31. What entity replaced Austria-Hungary in Hungary after the First World War?
A) The Kingdom of Hungary
B) The Hungarian Soviet Republic
C) The Hungarian Free State
D) The Austro-Hungarian Republic
  • 32. What movement emerged in China in response to the Paris Peace Conference's decision regarding Kiautschou Bay?
A) Constitutional Protection Movement
B) October Revolution
C) Federalist self-government movement
D) May Fourth Movement
  • 33. Which figure inspired Chinese radicals like Li Dazhao to move toward Marxist organization?
A) Sun Yat-sen
B) Chen Jiongming
C) Karl Kautsky
D) Russia's October Revolution
  • 34. Which political system did Chen Gongbo and Tan Pingshan support in their opposition to centralized revolutionary strategies?
A) Totalitarian socialism
B) Democratic centralism
C) Monarchism
D) Federalist self-government
  • 35. What movement did Sun Yat-sen align with to resist the Beiyang government?
A) Constitutional Protection Movement
B) The Federalist Party
C) October Revolution
D) May Fourth Movement
  • 36. Who expelled Sun Yat-sen from Guangzhou in 1922?
A) Tan Pingshan
B) Joffe
C) Chen Jiongming
D) Li Dazhao
  • 37. What manifesto formalized the cooperation between Sun Yat-sen and Soviet Russia in 1923?
A) Sun–Joffe Manifesto
B) The Marxist Manifesto
C) The Paris Peace Agreement
D) The Constitutional Protection Pact
  • 38. Which historian claimed the negotiations between the Irish and Russian republics were not taken seriously?
A) E. H. Carr
B) Sun Yat-sen
C) Chen Jiongming
D) Li Dazhao
  • 39. What was the name of the period of intense social conflict in Italy between 1919 and 1920?
A) The Great Depression
B) The March on Rome
C) Biennio Rosso
D) The German Revolution
  • 40. What entity did the Bolsheviks create to coordinate the wave of international revolutions?
A) The Factory Councils
B) The Second International
C) The Red Army
D) Comintern
  • 41. What was the main goal Lenin hoped the German Revolution would achieve for Soviet Russia?
A) Annex Germany
B) Abolish the Comintern
C) Expand the Red Army
D) End economic isolation
  • 42. What happened to the German Kaiser as a result of the German Revolution?
A) He abdicated
B) He was executed
C) He was appointed head of the Comintern
D) He fled to Russia
  • 43. How much was the Italian lira worth at the end of 1920 compared to its 1914 value?
A) Half
B) Double
C) Three-quarters
D) One-quarter
  • 44. Which political figure led the movement for 'Socialism in one country'?
A) The German Kaiser
B) Vladimir Lenin
C) Anarcho-Syndicalist leaders
D) Joseph Stalin
  • 45. What replaced factory management during the Italian Biennio Rosso?
A) State-run bureaucracies
B) Monarchist oversight committees
C) Factory councils
D) International syndicates
  • 46. What was the membership of the Italian Socialist Party during the Biennio Rosso?
A) 500,000
B) 100,000
C) 2,000,000
D) 250,000
  • 47. In what year was the Comintern abolished?
A) 1943
B) 1939
C) 1923
D) 1917
  • 48. What group saw up to 500,000 affiliates join during the Italian unrest?
A) General Confederation of Labour
B) The Red Army
C) Bavarian Soviet Republic
D) Italian Syndicalist Union
  • 49. Which region saw strikes and clashes in the countryside during the Italian Biennio Rosso?
A) The Baltic states
B) Northern Po Valley
C) Southern Italy
D) Rome
  • 50. What was the cost of living increase for an average Italian working-class family in 1921 compared to 1914?
A) 560%
B) 250%
C) 50%
D) 1000%
  • 51. What action by the U.K. was prompted by the results of the German Revolution?
A) Supporting the Kaiser
B) Declaring war on the Soviets
C) Lifting the embargo
D) Invading Germany
  • 52. What was the primary nature of the uprisings during the revolutionary wave of 1917–1923?
A) Socialist or anti-colonial
B) Capitalist or imperialist
C) Religious or conservative
D) Technocratic or monarchist
  • 53. Which Russian leader abdicated during the February Revolution?
A) Otto Wille Kuusinen
B) Vladimir Lenin
C) Alexander Kerensky
D) Tsar Nicholas II
  • 54. Who led the organization of the Finnish White Army?
A) Kullervo Manner
B) Otto Wille Kuusinen
C) Gustaf Mannerheim
D) Svinhufvud
  • 55. Which country provided military support to the Finnish Whites by landing forces in Hanko?
A) United Kingdom
B) Sweden
C) Germany
D) Russia
  • 56. What was the significance of the Mommila massacre?
A) An independent Bolshevik detachment murdered a Finnish businessman
B) It resulted in the death of Risto Ryti
C) It forced the Bolsheviks to surrender
D) It was the start of the Finnish Civil War
  • 57. What happened on May 16, 1918, in Helsinki?
A) The White Army held a victory parade
B) The Finnish parliament declared independence
C) A general strike was initiated
D) The Bolsheviks seized control of the capital
  • 58. Which political faction in Greece was led by Eleftherios Venizelos?
A) Monarchists
B) Venizelists
C) Ottoman loyalists
D) Pangalos supporters
  • 59. What was the name of the internal conflict between Greek political elites during the Great War?
A) The Balkan Split
B) The Great Hellenic War
C) National Schism
D) The Republican Divide
  • 60. In what year was the Second Hellenic Republic established?
A) 1924
B) 1919
C) 1935
D) 1922
  • 61. Who was installed as dictator in Greece following the military coup of 1925?
A) King Constantine I
B) Eleftherios Venizelos
C) General Primo de Rivera
D) General Pangalos
  • 62. When was the monarchy restored in Greece via a military coup?
A) 1928
B) 1923
C) 1935
D) 1931
  • 63. What was the stance of Spain during the Great War?
A) Supported the Central Powers
B) Supported the Triple Entente
C) Active combatant against Turkey
D) Neutrality
  • 64. Which regime existed in Spain starting from 1874?
A) A socialist state
B) The Second Republic
C) The Restoration Monarchy
D) A military dictatorship
  • 65. In which city did significant paramilitary conflicts between workers and employers occur in Spain?
A) Valencia
B) Barcelona
C) Seville
D) Madrid
  • 66. What military disaster in 1921 discredited the Spanish constitutional monarchy?
A) The loss of the civil war
B) The failure of the 1917 revolution
C) The defeat at Annual
D) The defeat at Dumlupınar
  • 67. Who was appointed head of government with dictatorial powers by King Alfonso XIII?
A) King Constantine I
B) General Pangalos
C) Eleftherios Venizelos
D) General Miguel Primo de Rivera
  • 68. Which group gained power as the radical forces lost ground?
A) The Felicistas
B) The Cristeros
C) The royalist faction
D) The Sonoran oligarchy
  • 69. Who was the revolutionary general that helped abate power struggles?
A) Emiliano Zapata
B) Pancho Villa
C) Álvaro Obregón
D) Felicista leader
  • 70. What were the Kuva-yi Milliye?
A) Formal government agencies
B) Irregular militias
C) Foreign occupying forces
D) Religious institutions
  • 71. Who led the Grand National Assembly (GNA) in Turkey?
A) The Ottoman Sultan
B) Soviet diplomats
C) Greek military leaders
D) Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  • 72. How long did Ottoman rule last before its abolition?
A) 850 years
B) 623 years
C) 1000 years
D) 400 years
  • 73. Which of these is listed as a communist revolution in Germany?
A) Patagonia Rebelde
B) Hamburg Uprising
C) Limerick Soviet
D) Tragic Week
  • 74. In which country did the 'Red Triennium' take place?
A) Hungary
B) Spain
C) Italy
D) Finland
  • 75. Which uprising took place in Bulgaria in 1923?
A) Sofia Riots
B) March Uprising
C) Bulgarian Soviet Revolution
D) September Uprising
  • 76. The 'Limerick Soviet' occurred in which country?
A) Canada
B) Ireland
C) Estonia
D) Germany
  • 77. Which country experienced the 'Patagonia Rebelde' conflict?
A) Argentina
B) Spain
C) Brazil
D) Mexico
  • 78. What was the nature of the 'Tragic Week' mentioned in the list?
A) Independence movement
B) Political violence
C) Labor strike
D) Agricultural reform
  • 79. Which of these events occurred in Canada in 1919?
A) Canadian Socialist Revolution
B) Toronto Uprising
C) Montreal Soviet
D) Canadian Labour Revolt
  • 80. What was the final outcome of the Greek advance into Anatolia?
A) Successful capture of Ankara
B) Annexation into Greece
C) Pushed out by the Great Offensive
D) Formal peace treaty
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