Modern history online quiz

Start from Columbus's historic voyage and travel through to the end of the civil war, all in 20 questions! Recommended for grades:

This quiz is designed to test your general knowledge of modern world history! The majority of the questions in this quiz focus on the past 100 years, although there are a few curveballs! .

History subjects are associated with memorising dates, but in Modern History, it’s more than dates; essay structures, source analysis, key terms- these are some of the things you’ll need to focus on skill-wise.
Content-wise, you need to be prepared to understand social, political and economic issues because some of the topics can get quite heavy.