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
what was surprising about Khrushchev’s rule?
he denounced Stalin’s crimes and set out policies to de-Stalinise Russia.
Who were the Anglo-Saxons?
People from German-speaking regions in Europe who settled in the South of England in the 5th century towards the end of Roman Britain.
why was hadrian’s wall built
to separate conquered england with the northern area that was unconquered, Caledonia (most of Scotland) 
What was the Night of the Long Knives?
Hitler defeated the opposition within his own party (the SA) be executing key leaders and became ruler of Germany.
when were the Tudors
1485 - 1603
Who was the battle of Hastings between?
Anglo-Saxon England and Normans
why did Julius Caesar not conquer Britain?
He failed due to guerilla warfare and bad weather
who won the battle of hastings?
Duke William of Normandy (William the Conqueror)
the mayflower
a ship that transported 140 English people ‘the Pilgrims’ to America in the 1620s.
when was the medieval period?
1066-1485
Who ruled after Julius Caesar?
Caesar Augustus (aka Octavian)
who built hadrian’s wall
Roman emperor Hadrian
when were the ‘Dark Ages’
early medieval period, CE 140 - 1066
which Roman emperor conquered Britain?
Claudius, the 4th Roman Emperor, ruling from AD 41 to 54
what caused the Falklands war?
Argentina invaded the Falkland islands and South Georgia so the British navy fought to reclaim it and won the territories back
Where were the Nuremberg Trials held?
A series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany
who were the rulers of the SU and the USA during the cuban missile crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy
Hundred Years’ War actually lasted how many year?
116, and technically it was a series of wars over this period
What began the Tudor era
War of the Roses
First US State to legalise gay marriage and when
Massachusetts in 2004
Who lost the batlle of hastings
King Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England 
When did Britain abolish the slave trade?
1807
When were the Nuremberg Trials?
1945-6
What Nationality was William the Conqueror?
French, he was the Duke of Normandy
Benjamin Lay
Quaker abolitionist born in England but later moved to America.
He protested against slave owners, lived in a cave to avoid anything to do with slave owners, was vegetarian, and made his own clothes to avoid clothes made by slaves.
He was also a dwarf.
What religion was Elizabeth I?
Protestant
Last Emperor of Russia
Nicholas II
What nationality was Joan of Arc?
French
Shaka Zulu founded the Zulu Kingdom in what year
Chief and Founder of the Zulu Kingdom in Southern Africa in 1816
He was a warrior who formed an army and devasted the region, turning psychotic after his mother’s death and killing thousands¬†
What religion was Mary I
Catholic
Gloria Steinem became the media spokeswoman for the __ in the 19__s.
The women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s.
How did Joan of Arc die?
She was burned at the stake
What did Joan of Arc do?
She led the French to battle to reclaim three main territories of France from the British, creating a path for Charles to get to Reims to be crowned King of France
Who carried out the Albigensian Crusade?
Pope Innocent III (France)
Grigori Rasputin befriended which Russian Emperor
Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia
Bonnie and Clyde
American criminal couple from the early 1900s who committed bank robberies and robbed stores and funeral homes.
They were shot by police in 1934.
Archimedes was a
Greek mathmatician
What year did Diana die?
1997
Why was Joan of Arc killed?
She was tried at court for breaking religious rules (e.g. dressing like a man) and she had then signed an agreement she would never dress as a man again.
While in prison she was found wearing boys clothes - allegedly because the prison guards stripped her naked and forced her to wear the boys clothing
Who conquers England in 1066?
William the Conqueror
Roughly what year was Joan of Arc born?
1412 - in the Medieval era
What two things did Fritz Haber invent and what were they used for?
A process to create ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.
Ammonia fertilises soil, aiding most of the world’s food production.
Chemical weapons, used in WWI during his lifetime, but also by the Nazis in concentration camps
