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WORLD HISTORY: This Navy commander flew from a base at Little America to the South Pole & back Nov. 28-29, 1929 | Admiral Richard Byrd | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Accused of accepting bribes, Francis Bacon was imprisoned in this forbidding complex in 1621 | Tower of London | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: More than 250,000 died in fighting before France granted this African nation independence July 3, 1962 | Algeria | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea | Catherine the Great | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: This Portuguese Admiral of the Indian Seas discovered & named the Amirante Islands | Vasco da Gama | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: This dominion was created by the British North America Act on July 1, 1867 | Canada | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: On May 9, 1946 this countrys King Victor Emmanuel abdicated in favor of his son Umberto | Italy | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1763, as a result of this numerical war, Florida became a British possession | Seven Years War | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1864 Austria & Prussia went to war with Denmark, winning Schleswig & this duchy | Holstein | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1832 Otto, a Bavarian prince, was named the first king of this Balkan country | Greece | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: City that was the seat of government of the viceroyalty of New Spain | Mexico City | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In the first Punic War, Rome conquered Corsica, Sardinia & this largest island of the Mediterranean | Sicily | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: At a 1943 meeting in this N. African city, FDR & Churchill agreed to an invasion of the soft underbelly of the Axis | Casablanca | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: On August 1, 1798 Admiral Nelson delivered a fatal blow to the French fleet near the Rosetta mouth of this river | the Nile | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1961 this Asian country invaded the small colonies of Daman, Diu & Goa, & defeated the Portuguese | India | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1530 a statement of faith, or confession, was issued from this German city named for a Roman Emperor | Augsburg | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: This countrys King Louis IV was nicknamed Louis From Overseas because he was raised in England | France | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: William Laud, an archbishop of this who opposed the Puritans, was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1645 | Canterbury | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: The first of this Mongol conquerors many wives was Borte, to whom he was betrothed as a child | Genghis Khan | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Born in 12 A.D., this cruel & unbalanced Roman emperor was a great-grandson of Mark Antony | Caligula | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: The Portuguese captured Muscat, now the capital of this sultanate, c. 1508 but were driven out in 1650 | Oman | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: One of historys largest refugee migrations, about 15 million people, took place 1947-1951 between these 2 countries | Pakistan & India | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: This ancient city grew powerful in part because the Tiber provides a convenient route to the sea 15 miles away | Rome | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1871 the Treaty of Frankfurt ended the war between France & this German state, led by Bismarck | Prussia | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: This Cairo square was the heart of the 18 days of protest that toppled Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak in 2011 | Tarir Square | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Zinoviev & Pyatakov were 2 victims of the 1930s proceedings called these trials due to their being public | show trials | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles of this company established a post at Singapore Harbor for Britain | the British East India Company | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: During the Tang dynasty, 618 to 907, Changan in this country was the most populous city in the world | China | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: The Grimaldi family first gained control of this country in 1297 | Monaco | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1944 this island country severed all its formal ties with Denmark & became a republic | Iceland | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In December 1812 this Venezuelan wrote the Cartagena Manifesto, a famous essay on independence | Simon Bolivar | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1199 this crusader king of England was mortally wounded while besieging the castle of Chalus | Richard the Lionhearted | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 447 he & his band of Huns devastated the area between the Mediterranean & Black Seas | Attila | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1971 this countrys constitution set up 3 cultural regions: Flanders, Wallonia, & Brussels | Belgium | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1910 this British scholar & army officer explored Syria on foot | Lawrence | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: From 1849 to 1861, he ruled the kingdom of Sardinia | Victor Emmanuel | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Mungo Park disappeared in 1806 while exploring this west African river | Niger | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Martin Behaim made the worlds first known globe in this year when some say the world was proved round | 1492 | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: An 1888 treaty said this canal was neutral & would remain open even during a war | Suez Canal | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: The day America declared its independence, this person was on the throne of Russia | Catherine the Great | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Sostratus of Cnidus built this citys famous lighthouse in the early 3rd century B.C. | Alexandria | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: This monk who died in 735 got the info for his history of England through correspondence | Venerable Bede | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Have you heard the latest buzz? The Mayans domesticated this native insect | the bee | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Thessaly, the land from which this Argonaut leader set out, also had a 4th century B.C. ruler of that name | Jason | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1950, 2 years into his long dictatorship, he invaded South Korea | Kim Il-sung | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 601 the Lombards destroyed this Italian city, home to a shrewish Kate, but it made a quick comeback | Padua | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Both Lord Protectors of Great Britain, Oliver & Richard had this last name | Cromwell | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: The Montreux Convention of 1936 recognized this countrys right to fortify the Dardanelles | Turkey | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: This liner was sunk by the submarine U-20 on May 7, 1915 | Lusitania | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Former slave Jean-Jacque Dessalines ruled this country as emperor Jacque I from 1804-1806 | Haiti | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Englands Henry V won this battle in France on St. Christans Day in 1415 | Agincourt | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1963 this former British P.M. became an honorary citizen of the U.S. by an act of Congress | Winston Churchill | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: He was the first president of Gran Colombia; after all , he helped liberate it | Simón Bolívar | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: This French king was condemned in mid-January 1793 & was executed January 21 | Louis XVI | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: On June 16, 1963 she blasted into orbit, joining Valery Bykovsky who had been launched 2 days earlier | Tereshkova | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by Germany as a result of this 1870-71 war | the Franco-Prussian War | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Briefly, in 1945, Karl Doenitz succeeded this man as Fuhrer of Germany | Hitler | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Until a 1969 coup by Muammar al-Qaddafi, King Idris had ruled this country for 18 years | Libya | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1756 British soldiers were imprisoned by Indian troops in this 15 x 18 room | the Black Hole of Calcutta | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In the Korean War, U.N. forces captured this North Korean capital Ocrober 19, 1950 | Pyongyang | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1066 he became the last Saxon king to rule England | Harold II | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: When Abel Tasman discovered this island in 1642, he called it Van Diemens Land | Tasmania | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: The Chinese plan called the Great Leap Forward was initiated by this leader in 1958 | Mao Tse-tung | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1986 this dictator fled Haiti, ending 28 years of rule by his family | Baby Doc Duvalier | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 405 B.C. Spartan commander Lysander won the final victory over the Athenians in this war | the Peloponnesian War | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1358 Lubeck, on the Baltic coast, became the headquarters of this league | the Hanseatic League | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Ferdinand & Isabella promised to make him Admiral of the Ocean Sea if he was successful in his 1492 voyage | Christopher Columbus | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1455 Johann Fust won a judgment against this printer & took the type used to print his famous Bible | Johannes Gutenberg | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1795 Austria, Prussia & Russia partitioned this country, eliminating its existence | Poland | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: At the death of Cardinal Mazarin in 1661, this French king declared that he would serve as his own prime minister | Louis XIV | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: This ancient north African city-state was protected by a high wall about 23 miles in length | Carthage | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1271 he left Venice for the Far East with his father & uncle; 24 years later, he finally made it back home | Marco Polo | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: On Feb. 18, 2008 the U.S. recognized this new Balkan state | Kosovo | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In a 1587 edict, Boris Godunov bound these to the land they worked on by forbidding their trade | serfs | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Cities like Copan thrived in this Mesoamerican civilizations Classic Period, until about 900 | the Maya | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: J.J. Dessalines, who bore scars from his masters whip, wanted to kill all whites on his island, now called this | Hispaniola | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: After his death on January 21, 1924, Stalin & Trotsky struggled for power in the USSR | Lenin | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: As a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1835, Sweden received Norway from this country | Denmark | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Signed in 1912, the Treaty of Fez established this African country as a French protectorate | Morocco | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Portuguese sailors off course in a 1543 storm became the 1st Europeans to land in this Asian island country | Japan | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: This Prussian rulers invasion of Silesia in 1740 led to the War of the Austrian Succession | Frederick the Great | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1804 this Caribbean country became 1st black nation to gain freedom from European colonial rule | Haiti | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Beginning in 1932 all this countrys kings have been the countrys founder or his sons | Saudi Arabia | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1472 this island group known for its pony & sheepdog was annexed to Scotland | Shetland Islands | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: The Visigoth Empire went out of business in 711 when it was defeated by this north African group in Spain | Moors | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: Term for the period in England from 1760 to 1840 during which steam power & big factories came into vogue | Industrial Revolution | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: This doctor lit up China as its provisional president in 1911 | Sun Yat-sen | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: 4,000 years ago, this island was starting its middle Minoan period | Crete | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: An armistice to end this war was signed at Panmunjom in July 1953 | The Korean War | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1429, while leading an attack on Paris, she was wounded by an arrow | Joan of Arc | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: A Greek military coup in 1974 briefly deposed Archbishop Makarios, president of this island nation | Cyprus | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: A phase of the Napoleonic Wars, The Peninsular War, 1808-1814, was fought on this peninsula | Iberian Peninsula | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1250 the Mamelukes, originally slaves, seized control of this African country & ruled until 1517 | Egypt | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: This Irish castle famous for its stone was built by Cormac MacCarthy about 1446 | the Blarney | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1863 Napoleon III persuaded this Archduke to become Emperor of Mexico | Maximilian | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1453 at Castillon, the French artillery won the last battle of this long war | the Hundred Years War | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: In 1853 Turkey declared war on Russia, beginning this conflict | the Crimean War | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: King Victor Emmanuel III appionted him prime minister of Italy in 1922 | Benito Mussolini | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: This Parisian school was founded as a college of theology in 1253 | The Sorbonne | world_history |
WORLD HISTORY: This N. European country was a grand duchy ruled by Russia before gaining its independence in 1917 | Finland | world_history |
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