📚 Introduction:
Preparing for the CSS European History paper? One of the most effective revision techniques is to solve multiple-choice questions (MCQs) that test your factual knowledge and analytical understanding of historical events.
In this post, you’ll find 100 carefully selected MCQs covering key themes from European History, aligned with CSS past papers, examiner trends, and FPSC patterns. This collection is suitable for both objective preparation and revision.
A downloadable PDF is provided at the end of the post.
🧠 CSS European History MCQs (Part 1: MCQs 1–25)
🔹 French Revolution & Napoleonic Era
1. What was the main cause of the French Revolution of 1789?
A) Napoleon’s dictatorship
B) Collapse of British monarchy
👉 C) Economic crisis and inequality ✅
D) Industrial Revolution
2. Which estate in pre-revolutionary France paid the most taxes?
A) First Estate
B) Second Estate
👉 C) Third Estate ✅
D) Royalty
3. Who authored “The Social Contract”?
A) Montesquieu
B) Voltaire
👉 C) Rousseau ✅
D) Hobbes
4. Napoleon crowned himself Emperor in which year?
A) 1799
👉 B) 1804 ✅
C) 1812
D) 1815
5. The Napoleonic Code is primarily related to:
A) Religious laws
👉 B) Civil law reforms ✅
C) Military strategy
D) Monarchical traditions
🔹 Industrial Revolution
6. The Industrial Revolution began in:
👉 A) Britain ✅
B) France
C) Germany
D) USA
7. What invention is attributed to James Watt?
A) Cotton gin
B) Power loom
👉 C) Steam engine ✅
D) Spinning jenny
8. Which industry was the first to be industrialized?
A) Steel
👉 B) Textile ✅
C) Automobiles
D) Agriculture
9. Which economic system emerged from the Industrial Revolution?
👉 A) Capitalism ✅
B) Communism
C) Feudalism
D) Mercantilism
10. The term “Laissez-faire” is associated with:
👉 A) Minimal government interference in the economy ✅
B) Religious freedom
C) Socialist policies
D) Expansionism
🔹 World War I
11. The immediate cause of WWI was:
👉 A) Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand ✅
B) German invasion of Belgium
C) Russian Revolution
D) Economic depression
12. Triple Entente included:
A) Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
👉 B) Britain, France, Russia ✅
C) USA, Germany, France
D) Russia, Germany, Italy
13. Treaty of Versailles was signed in:
A) 1917
👉 B) 1919 ✅
C) 1921
D) 1923
14. What was Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles?
A) Establishing League of Nations
👉 B) War Guilt Clause ✅
C) Arms reduction
D) Reparations deadline
15. League of Nations was formed in:
A) 1917
B) 1918
👉 C) 1920 ✅
D) 1923
🔹 Interwar Period & WWII
16. Who was the British PM during most of WWII?
A) Neville Chamberlain
👉 B) Winston Churchill ✅
C) Clement Attlee
D) Tony Blair
17. The policy of appeasement is most associated with:
👉 A) Neville Chamberlain ✅
B) Woodrow Wilson
C) FDR
D) Lenin
18. The Spanish Civil War lasted from:
A) 1920–22
👉 B) 1936–1939 ✅
C) 1939–1945
D) 1941–1944
19. D-Day invasion occurred in:
A) 1942
👉 B) 1944 ✅
C) 1945
D) 1941
20. The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in:
👉 A) August 1945 ✅
B) July 1945
C) September 1944
D) June 1946
🔹 Cold War & European Integration
21. Cold War began after:
A) WWI
👉 B) WWII ✅
C) Korean War
D) Cuban Missile Crisis
22. NATO was formed in:
👉 A) 1949 ✅
B) 1955
C) 1945
D) 1960
23. The Berlin Wall was built in:
A) 1949
👉 B) 1961 ✅
C) 1956
D) 1980
24. The European Economic Community (EEC) was established by:
A) Maastricht Treaty
👉 B) Treaty of Rome ✅
C) Treaty of Paris
D) Geneva Accord
25. Euro currency was officially introduced in:
A) 1990
B) 1995
👉 C) 1999 ✅
D) 2005