WBBSE Class 9 Fundamentals Of History Chapter 5 Europe In The 20th Century MCQs

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Chapter 5 Europe In The 20th Century Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1. Who was the founder of the Romanov Dynasty that ruled Russia?

  1. Mikhail Romanov
  2. Peter the Great
  3. Nicholas II
  4. Ivan IV

Answer: 1. Mikhail Romanov

Question 2. Who first adopted the title ‘Czar’ in Russia?

  1. Nicholas 1
  2. Ivan 4
  3. Alexander 2
  4. Alexander 3

Answer: 2. Ivan 4

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Question 3. When did the Romanov Dynasty come to an end?

  1. 1915
  2. 1916
  3. 1917
  4. 1918

Answer: 3. 1917

Question 4. When was Socialist Russia born?

  1. 1914
  2. 1915
  3. 1916
  4. 1917

Answer: 4. 1917

Question 5. Who was the last Czar of the Romanov Dynasty?

  1. Nicholas 1
  2. Nicholas 2
  3. Alexander 2
  4. Alexander 3

Answer: 2. Nicholas 2

WBBSE Class 9 Fundamentals Of History Chapter 5 Europe In The 20th Century MCQs

Question 6. When did Nicholas II abdicate the throne of Russia?

  1. 1917
  2. 1918
  3. 1919
  4. 1920

Answer: 1. 1917

Question 7. When did the Bolshevik Revolution take place in Russia?

  1. 1915
  2. 1916
  3. 1917
  4. 1918

Answer: 3. 1917

Question 8. Who was known as the ‘Father of Modern Russia’?

  1. Peter the Great
  2. Mikhail Romanov
  3. Ivan 4
  4. Nicholas1

Answer: 1. Peter the Great

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Question 9. Who were the Narodniks?

  1. Republicans
  2. Democrats
  3. Aristocrats
  4. Populists

Answer: 4. Populists

Question 10. What does the Russian word ‘narod’ mean?

  1. The ruler
  2. The leader
  3. Peasantry
  4. Clergy

Answer: 3. Peasantry

Question 11. In which year Ivan IV took the title, ‘Czar’?

  1. 1547
  2. 1548
  3. 1549
  4. 1550

Answer: 1. 1547

Question 12. Who propounded the concept of ‘One Czar, One Church, One Russia’?

  1. Nicholas 1
  2. Nicholas 2
  3. Alexander 2
  4. Alexander 3

Answer: 4. Alexander 3

Question 13. When did the Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising take place in Russia?

  1. December 1820
  2. December 1825
  3. December 1860
  4. December 1870

Answer: 2. December 1825

Question 14. When did Japan defeat Russia?

  1. 1901
  2. 1903
  3. 1905
  4. 1907

Answer: 3. 1905

Question 15. When did Bloody Sunday or Red Sunday take place in Russia?

  1. 1903
  2. 1905
  3. 1907
  4. 1909

Answer: 2. 1905

Question 16. When did the Paris Peace Conference take place?

  1. 1917
  2. 1918
  3. 1919
  4. 1920

Answer: 3. 1919

Question 17. Name the monk who exercised much influence on Czarina Alexandra.

  1. Saint Olga
  2. Vladimir
  3. Rasputin
  4. Fyodor Ushakov.

Answer: 3. Rasputin

Question 18. The Bolshevik Revolution is also known as the

  1. July Revolution
  2. September Revolution
  3. December Revolution
  4. November revolution.

Answer: 4. November revolution.

Question 19. When did Alexander Kerensky become the Prime Minister of Russia?

  1. 1915
  2. 1917
  3. 1919
  4. 1921

Answer: 2. 1917

Question 20 When did Lenin declare his April Theses?

  1. 13th April 1917
  2. 14th April 1917
  3. 15th April 1917
  4. 16th April 1917

Answer: 4. 16th April 1917

Question 21. When did the Bolsheviks seize power?

  1. 7th November 1917
  2. 10th November 1917
  3. 15tfl November 1917
  4. 21st November 1917

Answer: 1. 7th November 1917

Question 22. When did Lenin adopt the ‘New Economic Policy’?

  1. 1920
  2. 1921
  3. 1922
  4. 1923

Answer: 2. 1921

Question 23. By what name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov better known?

  1. Trotsky
  2. Stalin
  3. Kerensky
  4. Lenin

Answer: 4. Lenin

Question 24. In which year was Lenin born?

  1. 1861
  2. 1870
  3. 1871
  4. 1879

Answer: 2. 1870

Question 25. In which year Lenin died?

  1. 1924
  2. 1925
  3. 1929
  4. 1930.

Answer: 1. 1924

Question 26. When did Russia become the USSR?

  1. 1921
  2. 1924
  3. 1926
  4. 1929

Answer: 2. 1924

Question 27. Who was the person who raised the slogan ‘all powers to the Soviets’?

  1. Trotsky
  2. Stalin
  3. Nicholas 2
  4. Lenin

Answer: 4. Lenin

Question 28. Who ruled Russia before the Communist Party of the Soviet Union came to power?

  1. The Decembrists
  2. The Czars
  3. The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
  4. The Russian Marxist Party

Answer: 3. The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

Question 29. When did the First World War start?

  1. 1914
  2. 1915
  3. 1916
  4. 1917

Answer: 1. 1914

Question 30. When did the USA join the Allied powers in the First World War?

  1. 1914
  2. 1915
  3. 1916
  4. 1917

Answer: 4. 1917

Question 31. Name the country that strengthened the power of the Allies in the First World War.

  1. Japan
  2. Belgium
  3. USA
  4. Russia

Answer: 1. Japan

Question 32. With whom did the Russians sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

  1. France
  2. England
  3. Belgium
  4. Germany

Answer: 4. Germany

Question 33. Who was the President of America during the First World War?

  1. Theodore Roosevelt
  2. Woodrow Wilson
  3. Grover Cleveland
  4. Andrew Johnson

Answer: 2. Woodrow Wilson

Question 34. When did Italy join the Allied Powers in the First World War?

  1. 1914
  2. 1915
  3. 1916
  4. 1917

Answer: 2. 1915

Question 35. Who defeated Russia in the Battle of Tannenberg?

  1. Serbia
  2. Turkey
  3. Canada
  4. Germany

Answer: 4. Germany

Question 36. In which year Woodrow Wilson announced his famous ‘Fourteen Points’?

  1. 1917
  2. 1918
  3. 1919
  4. 1921

Answer: 2. 1918

Question 37. When was the Treaty of Versailles signed?

  1. 21st June 1919
  2. 23rd June 1919
  3. 28th June 1919
  4. 30th June 1919

Answer: 3. 28th June 1919

Question 38. Who termed the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles as meaningless and impractical?

  1. Stalin
  2. Lenin
  3. Clemenceau
  4. Winston Churchill

Answer: 4. Winston Churchill

Question 39. When was the League Covenant officially adopted?

  1. 28th June 1919
  2. 28th April 1919
  3. 21st February 1919
  4. 10th January 1919

Answer: 2. 28th April 1919

Question 40. Which day is known as the infamous ‘ Black Thursday’?

  1. 24th October 1929
  2. 31st October 1929
  3. 24th October 1930
  4. 31st October 1930

Answer: 1. 24th October 1929

Question 41. Who was the President of the USA during the ‘Great Depression’?

  1. F.D Roosevelt
  2. Woodrow Wilson
  3. H.C Hoover
  4. Abraham Lincoln

Answer: 3. H.C Hoover

Question 42. Name the Democratic Party candidate who won the USA presidential election in 1932.

  1. Woodrow Wilson
  2. John Kennedy
  3. H.C Hoover
  4. F.D Roosevelt

Answer: 4. F.D Roosevelt

Question 43. When did Kaiser William II abdicate the throne of Germany?

  1. 1917
  2. 1918
  3. 1919
  4. 1920

Answer: 2. 1918

Question 44. In which year H. C. Hoover became the President of the USA?

  1. 1928
  2. 1929
  3. 1930
  4. 1931

Answer: 1. 1928

Question 45. When was the Hoover Moratorium declared?

  1. 1929
  2. 1930
  3. 1931
  4. 1932

Answer: 3. 1931

Question 46. When was the first session of the ‘League of Nations held?

  1. 10th January 1920
  2. 14th January 1920
  3. 23rd January 1920
  4. 26th January 1920.

Answer: 1. 10th January 1920

Question 47. Name the German city where the republican constitution and the republic were established after the First World War.

  1. Munich
  2. Berlin
  3. Weimar
  4. Bonn

Answer: 3. Weimar

Question 48. Which country formed the ‘ Reconstruction Finance Corporation’?

  1. USA
  2. UK
  3. USSR
  4. UAE

Answer: 1. USA

Question 49. Under whose leadership was the Weimar Republic established?

  1. Kaiser William 2
  2. Bismarck
  3. Hindenburg
  4. Friedrich Ebert.

Answer: 4. Friedrich Ebert.

Question 50. Which country was not a member of the ‘League of Nations’?

  1. England
  2. France
  3. USA
  4. Belgium

Answer: 3. USA

Question 51. Who captured power in Germany soon after the Great Depression?

  1. Hitler
  2. Mussolini
  3. Clemenceau
  4. Franco

Answer: 1. Hitler

Question 52. Who was in power in Italy during the Great Depression?

  1. Hitler
  2. Mussolini
  3. Clemenceau
  4. Franco

Answer: 2. Mussolini

Question 53. In which year was Benito Mussolini born?

  1. 1881
  2. 1882
  3. 1883
  4. 1884

Answer: 3. 1883

Question 54. Name the political party formed by Benito Mussolini.

  1. The Communist Party
  2. The Nazi Party
  3. The Socialist Party
  4. The Fascist Party.

Answer: 4. The Fascist Party.

Question 55. The paramilitary force of Benito Mussolini was known as

  1. Black Shirts
  2. Red Shirts
  3. Brown Shirts
  4. White Shirts

Answer: 1. Black Shirts

Question 56. Who was Victor Emmanuel?

  1. French King
  2. Italian King
  3. German King
  4. Austrian King

Answer: 2. Italian King

Question 57. In which year the Fascists became the most powerful party in Italy?

  1. 1921
  2. 1923
  3. 1926
  4. 1929

Answer: 3. 1926

Question 58. Who assumed the title ‘II Duce’ or ‘one leader’?

  1. Kaiser William 2
  2. Victor Emmanuel 3
  3. Frederick Ebert
  4. Benito Mussolini

Answer: 4. Benito Mussolini

Question 59. Friedrich Ebert belonged to which of the following parties?

  1. Nazi Party
  2. Socialist Democratic Party
  3. Communist Party
  4. Fascist Party

Answer: 2. Socialist Democratic Party

Question 60. When did Adolf Hitler join the ‘German Workers’ Party’?

  1. 1917
  2. 1918
  3. 1919
  4. 1921

Answer: 3. 1919

Question 61. Name the autobiography of Hitler.

  1. Mein Kampf
  2. War and Peace
  3. Fathers and Sons
  4. Resurrection

Answer: 1. Mein Kampf

Question 62. In which year was Mein Kampf published?

  1. 1924
  2. 1925
  3. 1926
  4. 1927

Answer: 2. 1925

Question 63. Who took the title of Fuehrer in Germany?

  1. Kaiser William II
  2. Fridrich Ebert
  3. Adolf Hitler
  4. Goebbels.

Answer: 3. Adolf Hitler

Question 64. Who called Adolf Hitler a ‘great orator’?

  1. Alan Bullock
  2. Eric Hobsbawm
  3. A.J. P. Taylor
  4. E. H. Carr

Answer: 1. Alan Bullock

Question 65. By what name was the paramilitary force of the Nazi Party known as?

  1. Red Shirts
  2. Black Shirts
  3. Brown Shirts
  4. White Shirts

Answer: 3. Brown Shirts

Question 66. By what name was the Nazi ‘Secret Police’ known as?

  1. Storm- Troopers
  2. Gestapo
  3. Abwehr
  4. Hitler-Jugend

Answer: 2. Gestapo

Question 67. Who headed the Gestapo?

  1. Heinrich Himmler
  2. Joseph Goebbels
  3. Hermann Goering
  4. Martin Bormann

Answer: 1. Heinrich Himmler

Question 68. When did the Spanish Civil War take place?

  1. 1936
  2. 1937
  3. 1938
  4. 1939

Answer: 1. 1936

Question 69. Where was General Franco exiled?

  1. Morocco
  2. Canary Islands
  3. St. Helena
  4. British Isles

Answer: 2. Canary Islands

Question 70. Who termed the Spanish Civil War a ‘ miniature World War’?

  1. David Thomson
  2. Eric Hobsbawm
  3. Langsam
  4. E.H. Carr

Answer: 3. Langsam

Question 71. When was the ‘Popular Front ’ formed in Spain?

  1. 1934
  2. 1936
  3. 1937
  4. 1938

Answer: 2. 1936

Question 72. Who was the organizing secretary of an ‘ Indian Committee’ of the India League?

  1. Jawaharlal Nehru
  2. M. K. Gandhi
  3. Feroze Gandhi
  4. Krishna Menon

Answer: 3. Feroze Gandhi

Question 73. Who established a military dictatorship in Spain?

  1. Alfonso III
  2. Primo de Rivera
  3. President Jamora
  4. General Franco

Answer: 2. Primo de Rivera

Question 74. To which dynasty did Alfonso III belong?

  1. Savoy
  2. Habsburg
  3. Bourbon
  4. Orange

Answer: 3. Bourbon

Question 75. Which country supported the Republican Government of Spain after her Civil War in 1936?

  1. France
  2. Belgium
  3. Canada
  4. Russia

Answer: 4. Russia

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