Europe (1900s) Flashcards
In August 1989, protestors joined hands so that the capitals of these three nations were part of a 675-kilometer human chain. This demonstration was in opposition to Soviet occupation.
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Transvaal Republic president Paul Kruger, the German spa town of Ems, President of the Reichstag Hermann Göring, and German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann are all, historically speaking, associated by name with what specific type of dispatch?
Telegram
What Irish nationalist and revolutionary gained infamy for leading the IRA’s assassinations on the “Cairo Gang” of British intelligence agents during the Irish War of Independence? After negotiating the Anglo-Irish Treaty with David Lloyd George, he was ambushed and killed by anti-treaty republicans in 1922.
Michael Collins
Once the center of an empire, it didn’t exist as an independent nation from 1938 to 1955.
Austria
Name the military officer who, in 1933, founded the Nasjonal Samling (National Unity) party, becoming the nominal head of his country’s government in 1942.
Vidkun Quisling
A pivotal 1916 insurrection in Dublin, where well over 1,000 Irish nationalists took up arms against British rule, and which led to the proclamation of an Irish Republic (and eventually, an independent Irish state), began on what holiday—after which the event is commonly named?
Easter
Enosis (Greek for “union”) was the name given in the 1950s to a campaign for the union of Greece with what other country?
Cyprus
The Ulster Volunteer Force was accused of colluding with British intelligence services at several points during the Troubles, including coordinating an attack on what popular Irish music group, named for a U.S. city, in 1975?
Miami Showband
If you heard a phrase for the first time today, you may encounter it repeatedly afterwards. This cognitive bias is popularly named for what West German leftist militant group, active in the 1970s?
Baader-Meinhof Group (Red Army Faction)
Thought to be 5,300 years old, a mummified neolithic “iceman” given this first name was found in the Alps in 1991.
Otzi
Name the revolutionary socialist writer and orator who took part in the 1905 Russian Revolution and advocated for a mass strike as the instrument of proletarian insurgency, before founding the Spartacist movement and the German Communist Party in Berlin (which led to her murder in 1919). While she was born in Poland and became a German citizen, her last name is a homophone of a different European country.
Rosa Luxemburg
Following the outbreak of the “Troubles” in the late 1960s, the Irish Republican Army split into two wings: the “Official” IRA, and what other, which staged numerous assassinations and bombings in Britain and Northern Ireland over the subsequent three decades?
Provisional
