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