Volume 4: The Modern Age c

Question 1

Kerensky takes over Russia Provisional Government

Answer 1

1917

Question 2

Bolshevik Revolution

Answer 2

1917

Question 3

Bolsheviks renamed “Communist Party”

Answer 3

1917

Question 4

Ahmad Fu’ad becomes sultan of Egypt

Answer 4

1917

Question 5

Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers

Answer 5

1918

Question 6

Germany signs armistice to end fighting of World War I

Answer 6

1918

Question 7

Romanov family assassinated

Answer 7

1918

Question 8

Great Britain gives women right to vote

Answer 8

1918

Question 9

White Army forms

Answer 9

1918

Question 10

Egyptian delegates visit England in “wafd”

Answer 10

1918

Question 11

Russian Civil War

Answer 11

1918-1921

Question 12

Sinn Fein sets up Irish Assembly

Answer 12

1919

Question 13

Treaty of Versailles is signed

Answer 13

1919

Question 14

League of Nations forms

Answer 14

1919

Question 15

Amritsar massacre in India

Answer 15

1919

Question 16

Fascist Party is formed in Italy

Answer 16

1919

Question 17

U. S. Congress gives women the right to vote

Answer 17

1920

Question 18

Sinn Fein and Great Britain reach peace agreement

Answer 18

1921

Question 19

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is elected head of the Congress Party

Answer 19

1921

Question 20

Chinese Communist Party is formed

Answer 20

1921

Question 21

Mussolini marches to Rome

Answer 21

1922

Question 22

Michael Collins assassinated during Irish Civil War

Answer 22

1922

Question 23

Lenin suffers stroke; Stalin takes control of Russia

Answer 23

1922

Question 24

Britain grants Egypt independence

Answer 24

1922

Question 25

Chiang Kai-shek starts Kuomintang military academy

Answer 25

1923

Question 26

Irish Free State begins to govern itself

Answer 26

1923

Question 27

Italy under control of the Fascists

Answer 27

1923

Question 28

Lenin dies; Petrograd renamed Leningrad

Answer 28

1924

Question 29

Henry Puyi leaves China

Answer 29

1924

Question 30

Sun Yixian dies

Answer 30

1925

Question 31

Emperor Hirohito ascends the Japanese throne

Answer 31

1926

Question 32

Mao Zedong and CCP members rebel against Kuomintang

Answer 32

1926

Question 33

Kuomintang takes control of China’s government

Answer 33

1928

Question 34

The Wall Street Crash

Answer 34

1929

Question 35

Gandhi leads thousands on Salt March

Answer 35

1930

Question 36

Russian Gulag in operation

Answer 36

1930-1960

Question 37

Japan withdraws from League of Nations

Answer 37

1931

Question 38

Famines in Russia kill up to 5 million people

Answer 38

1932-1933

Question 39

Franklin Roosevelt becomes President

Answer 39

1933

Question 40

Hitler takes power in Germany

Answer 40

1933

Question 41

Mao Zedong’s Long March

Answer 41

1934-1935

Question 42

Berlin hosts the Olympics; Jesse Owens wins four gold medals

Answer 42

1936

Question 43

Spanish Civil War

Answer 43

1936-1939

Question 44

Japanese capture Shanghai and Beijing

Answer 44

1937

Question 45

Kristallnacht

Answer 45

1938

Question 46

Germany invades Poland; World War II begins

Answer 46

1939

Question 47

General Franco gains control of Spain

Answer 47

1939

Question 48

Japan joins the Axis powers

Answer 48

1940

Question 49

The Dunkirk Evacuation

Answer 49

1940

Question 50

U. S. enters WWII after Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

Answer 50

1941

Question 51

The Battle of Midway

Answer 51

1942

Question 52

Kerensky takes over Russia Provisional Government

Answer 52

1917