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World History from 1648 to the Present

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  1. Which settlement of 1648 is often seen as the start of the modern system of sovereign states in Europe?
  2. Which congress of 1814 and 1815 reorganised Europe after the defeat of Napoleon?
  3. In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin in the 18th century?
  4. Which year saw a wave of revolutions across Europe known as the Springtime of Peoples?
  5. Which conference of 1884 and 1885 set rules for European colonisation in Africa?
  6. In which year did the Bolsheviks take power in Russia in the October Revolution?
  7. Which treaty of 1919 formally ended the First World War between Germany and the Allies?
  8. Which event of October 1929 marked the start of the Great Depression?
  9. Which agreement of September 1938 allowed Germany to annex the Sudetenland?
  10. Which leaders met at Yalta in February 1945 to plan the end of the Second World War?
  11. What was the Marshall Plan announced in 1947?
  12. Which military alliance did the Soviet Union and its allies form in 1955?
  13. Which crisis of October 1962 brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war?
  14. Which event of 1956 followed the nationalisation of the Suez Canal by Egypt?
  15. Which agreements of March 1962 ended the Algerian War?
  16. Which conference of 1955 brought together Asian and African states and promoted non-alignment?
  17. In which year did India become independent from British rule?
  18. In which year was the Soviet Union dissolved?
  19. In which year did the genocide against the Tutsi take place in Rwanda?
  20. Which event of 11 September 2001 led to the start of the so-called war on terror?
  21. Which charter of 1215 limited the powers of the English king?
  22. In which year did the thirteen American colonies declare their independence from Britain?
  23. Which Enlightenment thinker set out the separation of powers in The Spirit of the Laws in 1748?
  24. In which year was slavery definitively abolished in the French colonies, after a decree promoted by Victor Schœlcher?
  25. Which city fell to the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II in 1453, ending the Byzantine Empire?
  26. Which peaceful change of regime took place in Czechoslovakia in November 1989?
  27. Who proclaimed the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949?

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