History Flashcards
When was the battle of Hastings?
1066
1980 Summer Olymics boycott
US initiated a boycott against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan for the 1980 Olymics in Moscow.
What event marked the beginning of the gay rights movement?
Stonewall riots
When did Britain make it illegal to own slaves?
1833
What was Nikita Khrushchev’s title when he took power of the soviet union
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
what happened in 1066 that marked the start of a new era in Britain?
Battle of Hastings
When did England and Wales legalise gay marriage?
13th March 2014
When was the Russo-Japanese war
1904-5 over Korea 
Treaty of Portsmouth
What was the Albigensian Crusade?
Pope Innocent III aimed to wipe out Catharism, a sect of Christianity. He succeeded and 200,000 Cathars were killed.
Who was prime minister during the Falklands War
Margaret Thatcher
When was the Night of the Long Knives?
30th June to 2nd July 1934
When was the Albigensian Crusade?
1209 - 1229
Since when has Vladimir Putin been President of Russia
1999-2008
2012- present
Why were they called the dark ages?
there was very little that was recorded and there was considered to be regression in developments e.g. the philosophical thinking of the Romans was replaced with religious superstition, and there was great economic decline
When did Apollo 11 land on the moon?
July 20th, 1969
When was the Hundred Years’ War?
1337–1453 (116 years)
When was the American civil War
1861-65
when was the cuban missile crisis?
1962
Who won the Russo-Japanese war
Japan won 
Treaty of Portsmouth
When did the Romans conquer Britain?
43 CE/AD
When were the ‘Middle Ages’
Between the fall of Rome in 476 CE (Common Era) and the Renaissance in the 14th century
What year did Edison give the first public demonstration of the light bulb?
1879
When and where were the Stonewall Riots?
28 Jun 1969 – 3 Jul 1969
New York
When and what was the Prohibition?
the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
Spanish inquisition
1478, Monarchs wanted Spain to unite under one religion - Catholicism. Muslims and Jews were forced to covert. Thousands were punished and killed.
Why do monarchy house names change? E.g. Normandy to Angevins
either because queens didn’t pass on their family name, their sons would take their father’s name
or through murder/usurpation
Who was the Hundred Years’ War between?
France and England
when was the feudal system (feudalism) used?
Medieval Europe 9th-15th centuries
