Volume 4: The Modern Age b

Question 1

The Second Afghan War

Answer 1

1878-1880

Question 2

Thomas Edison invents the electric light

Answer 2

1879

Question 3

The War of the Pacific begins in South America

Answer 3

1879

Question 4

Police arrest Ned Kelly

Answer 4

1880

Question 5

The First Boer War

Answer 5

1880-1881

Question 6

Assassins kill Czar Alexander II

Answer 6

1881

Question 7

The Triple Alliance forms

Answer 7

1882

Question 8

The U. S. adopts time zones

Answer 8

1883

Question 9

The Berlin Conference

Answer 9

1884

Question 10

Parliament votes against the Home Rule Bill

Answer 10

1886

Question 11

Brazil is declared a republic; Pedro II leaves Brazil

Answer 11

1889

Question 12

Menelik takes control of Ethiopia

Answer 12

1889

Question 13

Abbas II named khedive of Egypt

Answer 13

1892

Question 14

The Armenians rebel against the Ottoman Turks

Answer 14

1894

Question 15

Nicholas II becomes czar of Russia

Answer 15

1894

Question 16

The Sino-Japanese War

Answer 16

1894-1895

Question 17

The creation of Rhodesia

Answer 17

1895

Question 18

Italy recognizes Ethiopian independence

Answer 18

1896

Question 19

The Spanish-American war begins

Answer 19

1898

Question 20

The Second Boer War

Answer 20

1899-1902

Question 21

The “Young Turks” try to reform the Ottoman Empire

Answer 21

1895

Question 22

The Boxer Rebellion in China

Answer 22

1900

Question 23

The Commonwealth of Australia is established

Answer 23

1901

Question 24

Alfonso XIII is crowned king of Spain

Answer 24

1902

Question 25

Macedonians declare themselves independent from Turkish rule

Answer 25

1903

Question 26

Wright brothers make the first powered and controlled flight

Answer 26

1903

Question 26

The Russian-Japanese War

Answer 26

1904-1905

Question 27

Irish Catholics form Sinn Fein

Answer 27

1905

Question 28

The first Majles beings after Liberal rebellion

Answer 28

1906

Question 29

Phan Boi Chau leaves Japan

Answer 29

1908

Question 30

Mexican Revolution begins

Answer 30

1910

Question 30

Delhi becomes capital of India

Answer 30

1911

Question 31

Sun Yixian flees to Canton

Answer 31

1912

Question 32

The Titanic sinks

Answer 32

1912

Question 32

Arizona becomes a state

Answer 32

1912

Question 33

The First Balkan War

Answer 33

1912

Question 34

The Second Balkan War

Answer 34

1913

Question 35

World War I begins

Answer 35

1914

Question 36

Russia enters WWI

Answer 36

1914

Question 37

Egypt becomes a British protectorate

Answer 37

1914

Question 37

Italy joins the Allied Forces

Answer 37

1915

Question 38

A German submarine sinks the Lusitania

Answer 38

1915

Question 39

Rasputin is killed

Answer 39

1916

Question 40

Easter Uprising in Ireland

Answer 40

1916

Question 41

The U. S. joins WWI

Answer 41

1917