World History Trivia Quiz

Answer: Japan and Germany

Japan, Italy and Germany were the key Axis powers, whose purpose was boundless expansion. Fascism as an ideology is associated particularly closely with Mussolini, Hitler and their autocratic regimes. Other Axis powers included Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Slovakia ... and Romania in 1944.
Brazil fought from 1943-45 alongside the Allies.

Answer: War of 1812

The War of 1812 was declared by James Madison against the British Empire.
The British were stopping and seizing American ships and arming the American Indians to fight Americans. As a result, the nations trade was disrupted and the U.S. Capitol was burned. This was the first time after the Revolutionary War that America had to fight to protect its independence. The other wars were fought on foreign grounds.

Answer: Poland

The CIS consists of the former republics of the Soviet Union. Poland, though part of the Soviet Bloc from 1945-1989, was never part of the USSR.

The CIS Republics were divided into regions known as Russia, Central Asian Republics and European Republics Members. Poland, led by Labor Movement Leader Lech Walesa, began the transition to a market economy in 1989 and became a member of NATO in 1999 and a member of the EU in 2004.

Answer: Apartheid

South Africa was transformed when white South African President F. W. de Klerk worked with Nelson Mandela, a South African lawyer who had spent 27 years in jail, to dismantle apartheid.

Apartheid had been set up as a nationwide system of so-called 'separate development' by the Afrikaner National Party following its election victory in 1948. However, racial segregation in South Africa, on a less systematic and local basis, predated this by several decades.

Answer: Britain

On May 14, 1948, the independent state of Israel was proclaimed as British rule in Palestine came to an end. The British held a League of Nations (alter United Nations) mandate for Palestine until May 1948 and opposed the creation of a Jewish state. Britain wanted to preserve good relations with the Arabs to protect its political and economic interests in the Middle East.

Answer: NATO

NATO, a military alliance of several western European countries was formed after World War II to stand against the USSR expansion and to protect each other if attacked.

Answer: Turkey

Italy and Germany were both ardent supporters of Fascism, authoritarian government and extreme nationalism. Fascism was originally created by Mussolini to expand dictatorship and to suppress opposition by force. Turkey was one of the few neutral countries until it declared war on Germany very late in World War II - in January 1945 in fact.

Answer: Japan became a major regional power in Asia and the Pacific

Japan was the only Far East country to emphasize imperialism by means of military force and brutal territorial acquisition. Japan's colonial expansion into Manchuria, Korea, the Philippines, and Indonesia became parts of its expansion.

Answer: Silver

All of the other choices - tea, silk and porcelain were - imported by Europe, except for silver. The traffic in silver (and gold) was generally in the other direction: from Europe to China. As there was relatively little that the Chinese wanted from Europe, the luxuries imported by Europeans had to be paid for in cash.

Answer: Shared values

Values are those things that are inherently important to, or valued by someone or a society.