In August 1942, US forces in the Pacific was commanded by ________

(a)

MacArthur

(b)

Eisenhower

(c)

General de Gaulle

(d)

George Marshall

The US navy defeated the Japanese navy in the Battle of ________

(a)

Britain

(b)

Guadalcanal

(c)

El Alamein

(d)

Midway

German forces suffered their first reverses at _________

(a)

Potsdam

(b)

El Alamein

(c)

Stalingrad

(d)

Midway

Which one of the following was not a declaration of the Potsdam conference?

(a)

East Prussia to be divided into two parts: northern part going to the Soviet Union, and the southern art to Poland.

(b)

Poland to receive the former free city of Danzig.

(c)

Germany to be divided into four occupation zones to be governed by the USSR, Great Britain, the United States and France

(d)

Trieste was to be divided into Zone A and Zone B. Zone A went to Italy, while zone B was awarded to Yugoslavia.

Which one of the following was not the result of the Second World War?

(a)

Second World War was fatal to many European monarchies.

(b)

The Labour Party government in Britain established a welfare state.

(c)

The struggle against Fascism ended in the triumph of Imperialism

(d)

The United States and Soviet Russia emerged as two super powers in the world.

Which of the following pairs is correct?

1)	General de Gaulle	-	France
2)	Haile Selassie	-	Ethiopia
3)	General Badoglio	-	Japan
4)	Admiral Yamamoto	-	Italy

(a)

1 and 2

(b)

2 and 3

(c)

3 and 4

(d)

All are correct

France joined the Second Opium War

(a)

to help Britain in the war

(b)

to carve out a separate sphere of influence to France

(c)

to obtain permission for religious activities

(d)

to establish the French rights to engage in opium trade.

The end of Manchu dynasty came in the year ________

(a)

1908

(b)

1911

(c)

1912

(d)

1916

The dispute that led to the Spanish-American War in 1898 was on _________

(a)

Cuba

(b)

the Philippines

(c)

Puerto Rico

(d)

Batavia

Assertion: On 4 July 1946 the Philippines became independent.
Reason: Philippines joined the US-dominated South East Asian Treaty Organisation.

(a)

Both A and R are correct. R explains A

(b)

Both A and R are correct. R does not explain A

(c)

A is correct but R is wrong

(d)

A is wrong but R is correct