Question: British imperialism was being reconsidered in light of which territories' independence movements?
Answer: India and Ireland

Question: When did Ireland establish their own assembly?
Answer: 1919

Question: What political party established Ireland's assembly?
Answer: Sinn Féin

Question: When did the Anglo-Irish War end?
Answer: 1921

Question: What treaty was signed after the Anglo-Irish War?
Answer: Anglo-Irish Treaty

Question: How many counties of Ireland are in Northern Ireland?
Answer: six

Question: When was the Government of India Act passed?
Answer: 1919

Question: What event stoked fears of communist plots in India?
Answer: the Ghadar Conspiracy

Question: In what region was the Amritsar Massacre?
Answer: Punjab

Question: The Chauri Chaura incident led to the end of what movement?
Answer: Non-Co-Operation

Question: When did Egypt regain formal independence from Britain?
Answer: 1922

Question: When did Egypt stop being a British client state?
Answer: 1954

Question: What treaty was signed in 1936?
Answer: Anglo-Egyptian Treaty

Question: When did Iraq gain independence from Britain?
Answer: 1932

Question: Britain became more pro-Arab in the 1930s at the expense of which race?
Answer: Jewish

Question: When was the right of Dominions to determine their own foreign policy recognized?
Answer: 1923

Question: Which treaty did Canada ignore?
Answer: Treaty of Lausanne

Question: When was the Balfour Declaration issued?
Answer: 1926

Question: When was the status of Dominions as equal autonomous communities given legal force?
Answer: 1931

Question: When did Ireland issue a new constitution?
Answer: 1937

Question: When was France occupied by Germany?
Answer: 1940

Question: When was the Atlantic Charter signed?
Answer: August 1941

Question: Which British Prime Minister signed the Atlantic Charter?
Answer: Churchill

Question: Which US President signed the Atlantic Charter?
Answer: Roosevelt

Question: Which country first entered World War 2 after France's defeat?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: Which country attacked British Malaya in 1941?
Answer: Japan

Question: Which country attacked Hong Kong in 1941?
Answer: Japan

Question: When was the ANZUS Pact formed?
Answer: 1951

Question: Which countries were in the ANZUS Pact?
Answer: Australia, New Zealand and the United States

Question: Which territory had been compared to Gibraltar?
Answer: Singapore

Question: How much money did the US loan to Britain after WW2?
Answer: $US 4.33 billion

Question: When did Britain finish paying back the US loan?
Answer: 2006

Question: When did the US make a large loan to Britain?
Answer: 1946

Question: Though the US and the Soviet Union were both against colonialism, what was the US more afraid of?
Answer: communism

Question: How many people outside the UK were under British rule in 1945?
Answer: 700 million

Question: Who led the British government elected in 1945?
Answer: Clement Attlee

Question: What were India's two largest political parties in the 1940s?
Answer: the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League

Question: What was India's majority religion in the 1940s?
Answer: Hindu

Question: When India was split into Hindu and Muslim areas, what country did the Muslim area become?
Answer: Pakistan

Question: When did Burma get its independence?
Answer: 1948

Question: What race was the majority in Palestine in the 1940s?
Answer: Arab

Question: When did Britain announce plans to withdraw from Palestine?
Answer: 1947

Question: Which entity decided to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states?
Answer: The UN General Assembly

Question: Where did many Jewish refugees want to move because of the Holocaust?
Answer: Palestine

Question: When did the Malayan Emergency begin?
Answer: 1948

Question: When did Britain give the Federation of Malaya its independence?
Answer: 1957

Question: When did Singapore leave the Federation of Malaya?
Answer: 1965

Question: What race was the majority of Singapore's population?
Answer: Chinese

Question: When did Brunei get its independence?
Answer: 1984

Question: What party regained power in Britain in 1951?
Answer: Conservative Party

Question: Which party was Winston Churchill in?
Answer: Conservative Party

Question: Who ruled Egypt in 1952?
Answer: Gamal Abdul Nasser

Question: When did Sudan receive independence?
Answer: 1 January 1956

Question: Britain wanted to retain control of the Suez Canal to help its importance in what region?
Answer: Middle East

Question: When was the Suez Canal nationalized?
Answer: July 1956

Question: Who became British Prime Minister after Winston Churchill?
Answer: Anthony Eden

Question: Which country did Eden conspire with to cause an attack on Egypt?
Answer: France

Question: Who decided to sell US reserves of the British pound to cause the pound to collapse?
Answer: Eisenhower

Question: What country did Britain convince to attack Egypt?
Answer: Israeli

Question: Where did 'Britain's Waterloo' occur?
Answer: Suez

Question: Who referred to 'Suez Syndrome'?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Question: When did Britain retake the Falkland Islands?
Answer: 1982

Question: From whom did Britain retake the Falkland Islands?
Answer: Argentina

Question: A British minister thought which country was becoming an 'American satellite'?
Answer: Britain

Question: When did Britain withdraw from Aden?
Answer: 1967

Question: When did Britain withdraw from Bahrain?
Answer: 1971

Question: When did Britain withdraw from the Maldives?
Answer: 1976

Question: Who was Harold Wilson's Defense Secretary?
Answer: Denis Healey

Question: Where did Britain's army attack in 1961?
Answer: Kuwait

Question: What was the last British colony remaining in Africa?
Answer: Southern Rhodesia

Question: When was the second-to-last British colony in Africa granted independence?
Answer: 1968

Question: When was the Unilateral Declaration of Independence of Rhodesia?
Answer: 1965

Question: What new country did the Lancaster House Agreement recognize?
Answer: Mau Mau Uprising

Question: Where was the Mau Mau Uprising?
Answer: Kenyan

Question: Which British territory received independence in 1961?
Answer: Jamaica

Question: Which British territory received independence in 1962?
Answer: Trinidad

Question: When did Barbados get independence?
Answer: 1966

Question: Which islands decided to return to British rule after receiving independence?
Answer: Anguilla and the Turks and Caicos

Question: What was Britain's last American mainland colony?
Answer: British Honduras

Question: When was Canada given full control of its constitution?
Answer: 1982

Question: When did Rhodesia become Zimbabwe?
Answer: 1980

Question: What were the remaining British territories called in 1981?
Answer: British Dependent Territories

Question: What were the remaining British territories called in 2002?
Answer: British Overseas Territories

Question: Which 1980s war victory helped Britain seem more like a world power again?
Answer: Falklands War

Question: Who was the British Prime Minister in 1982?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Question: Which treaty had given Hong Kong to Britain?
Answer: Treaty of Nanking

Question: When did Britain hand over Hong Kong to China?
Answer: 1997

Question: When was the Sino-British Joint Declaration?
Answer: 1984

Question: Which territory did Margaret Thatcher compare Hong Kong to?
Answer: Falkland Islands

Question: How many overseas territories does Britain still have?
Answer: 14

Question: When did Britain decide to call its territories the British Overseas Territories?
Answer: 2002

Question: Which country besides Britain claims Gibraltar?
Answer: Spain

Question: Which country besides Britain claims the Falkland Islands?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Which country besides Britain claims the South Sandwich Islands?
Answer: Argentina

Question: How many Commonwealth nations are there?
Answer: 53

Question: What is the population of the Commonwealth?
Answer: 2.2 billion