History Quiz Page - Modern History
History questions about the events and people of the last 200 hundred years.
25 Questions - Modern History
- Which incident in 1962 nearly led to a nuclear confrontation between the U.S. and Russia?
- Who became became President of the United States upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
- What name was given to a series of 20th-century confrontations between the United Kingdom and Iceland?
- In which month of 1945 did Hitler marry Eva Braun?
- Which officer led the Charge of the Light Brigade against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava?
- Which explorer is buried in South Georgia, who died there in 1921 on route to his third Antarctic expedition?
- Following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, who became the new leader of the Soviet Union?
- From which country did Vietnam claim independence in 1945?
- The Titanic was built at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard in which city?
- The World Health Organization declared which disease eradicated in 1980?
- What term was used to describe the social and economic campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party from 1958 to 1962?
- What was the name of the first ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel? It was the longest steamship in the world.
- In which year did the American Civil War effectively end when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the Battle of Appomattox Court House?
- Which Italian general, nicknamed the George Washington of Italy, contributed to Italian unification and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy?
- Who became British Prime Minister in 1937?
- Who developed what is now known as Marxism together with Karl Marx?
- On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs detonated near the finish line of a marathon in which American city?
- Which Vietnamese politician and revolutionary served as Prime Minister of Vietnam from 1945 to 1955?
- Which hilltop in South Africa was the site of a battle in the Boer War from 23 to 24 January 1900?
- Which city was named after the wife of King William IV?
- Which battle took place on 2 September 1898, at Kerreri, in the Sudan?
- Which ship was abandoned in the Arctic waterway Tariyunnuaq in 1854 while searching for Sir John Franklin and his lost expedition?
- What name was given to the scandal in British history that helped topple the Conservative government in the early 1960s?
- On which island did Napolean spend the last days of his life?
- Which drinks brand, which sold the world's first soft drink in 1783, was the official sponsor of the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London in 1851?
Answers - Modern History
- Cuban Missile Crises
- Andrew Johnson
- The Cod Wars
- April
- Lord Cardigan
- Ernest Shackleton
- Joseph Stalin
- France
- Belfast
- Smallpox
- The Great Leap Forward
- The SS Great Western
- 1865
- Garibaldi (Giuseppe Garibaldi)
- Neville Chamberlain
- Friedrich Engels
- Boston
- Ho Chi Minh
- Spion Kop
- Adelaide, Australia
- Battle of Omdurman
- HMS Resolute (its oak timbers were used to make The Resolute desk, used by several presidents in the White House as the Oval Office desk, including the most recent presidents)
- Profumo affair
- St. Helena
- Schweppes