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