- 1. Which country emerged as a superpower after World War II?
A) Germany
B) Italy
C) United States
D) Japan
- 2. In which year did World War II officially end?
A) 1939
B) 1947
C) 1945
D) 1950
- 3. Which international organization was established in 1945 to promote peace and cooperation?
A) NATO
B) United Nations
C) Warsaw Pact
D) European Union
- 4. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union in 1945?
A) Nikita Khrushchev
B) Vladimir Putin
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Joseph Stalin
- 5. Which city was the site of the historic United Nations Conference in 1945?
A) Berlin
B) New York
C) London
D) San Francisco
- 6. What agreement was signed in 1945 that led to the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community?
A) Yalta Agreement
B) NATO Charter
C) Versailles Treaty
D) Treaty of Paris
- 7. Who became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1945, leading the Labour Party to a landslide victory?
A) Clement Attlee
B) Winston Churchill
C) David Lloyd George
D) Neville Chamberlain
- 8. In what city were the trials of major Nazi war criminals held in 1945-1946?
A) Dresden
B) Munich
C) Berlin
D) Nuremberg
- 9. Which African American singer-songwriter became a major influence on rock and roll in 1945 with his hit song 'Caldonia'?
A) Louis Jordan
B) Nat King Cole
C) Sam Cooke
D) Chuck Berry
- 10. What company introduced the first electronic computer in 1945?
A) Apple
B) Microsoft
C) ENIAC
D) IBM
- 11. What organization was founded in 1945 to support and further the arts and humanities in the United States?
A) National Gallery of Art
B) National Endowment for the Arts
C) Smithsonian Institution
D) UNESCO
- 12. Which country gained independence from the Netherlands in 1945?
A) Indonesia
B) Suriname
C) Malaysia
D) Vietnam
- 13. What historical event occurred on May 8, 1945, marking the end of World War II in Europe?
A) Pearl Harbor attack
B) Japan surrender
C) D-Day
D) Victory in Europe (VE) Day
- 14. Who was the British Prime Minister at the end of World War II in 1945?
A) Winston Churchill
B) Clement Attlee
C) Neville Chamberlain
D) Anthony Eden
- 15. In 1945, who became the first Secretary-General of the United Nations?
A) Ban Ki-moon
B) Dag Hammarskjöld
C) Kofi Annan
D) Trygve Lie
- 16. What famous painting, depicting the horrors of war, was created by Pablo Picasso in 1945?
A) Mona Lisa
B) The Starry Night
C) The Persistence of Memory
D) Guernica
- 17. Who published the influential work 'Animal Farm' in 1945, a satirical novel critiquing Stalinism?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Aldous Huxley
D) George Orwell
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