Asian Modern History

1. Who old was Puyi when he was crowned the last Emperor of China?

2. Who is the founding father of the Republic of Turkey and its first president from 1923 to 1938?

3. Which Asian country was know as Siam until 1932, when it became a constitutional monarchy?

4. Who fought in the First Indochinese War?

5. Burma got its independence from which country in 1948?

6. Which Asian country in the west and from the beginning of British colonial rule was known as Ceylon?

7. Mahatma Gandhi fought for the independence of India from what empire?

8. What was relation between Mahatma Gandhi and Indira Gandhi?

9. How did Mahatma Gandhi die?

10. Since 1975, what was the colonial name of East Timor?

11. In which year the founding father of the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong was deceased?

12. Which prime minister of India was assassinated in 1984?

13. Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that started in 1988 is an ethnic and territorial conflict between which two countries?

14. Which Asian country was known as Burma since 1989?

15. Which Asian country was known as Kampuchea since 1989?

16. Gulf war was fought between Iraq and the coalition forces after the Iraqi invasion of which country?

17. East Timor got independence from which country in 1999?

18. Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm were code names for which war?

19. What was the name of the U.S. military operation in Afghanistan that started in 2001?

20. What war started in October of 2001 in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States?

21. Benazir Bhutto was the first female Prime Minister in a Muslim-majority country. Where was she assassinated in 2007?

22. Where was the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden found and killed in 2011?

23. The plane of which airline disappeared on March 8, 2014 during a flight to Beijing?

24. In which city in 2020 a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the port exploded?