History remembers how the Great War shattered the old order and how its millions of graves fertilized the soil for new hatred to take root. The Second World War had followed like some inevitable plague, its battlefields stretching from frozen Russian steppes to Pacific coral atolls, its horrors birthing both the United Nations and the Cold War’s frozen stalemate.
For fifty years, the world’s history had balanced on the knife’s edge, its people living beneath the sword of Damocles while proxy wars burned in jungles and deserts. The Berlin Wall had stood as a grim monument to division, then fallen as suddenly as autumn leaves, its concrete dust mixing with the tears of those who remembered when it was built.
Yet amid the ruins, hope had stubbornly bloomed. The same century that perfected industrialized slaughter had given birth to universal declarations of human dignity. The ashes of concentration camps had fertilized movements for civil rights across continents. Where tanks had rolled, protesters later marched with flowers in gun barrels.
History Quiz
Today’s quiz stems from these fields: American, World, Modern Wars, and Mixed History. Let’s begin:
