History Flashcards
Henry the Eight Wives
catherine of Aragon - divorced
Anne Boleyn - beheaded
jean Seymour - died
anne of cleaves - divorced
Catherine Howard - beheaded
Catherine Parr - survived
in what year did the Berlin Wall fall
1989
Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed Pompeii in what year
79 AD
who was the first president of the USA
George Washington
how old was Diana when she died
36
how long did world war one go on for
4 years
(1914-1918)
whose assassination in June 1914 sparked the First World War
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
in what year was the Chernobyl disaster
1986
in what year was the Euro introduced
1999
in what year did the Titanic Sink
1912
what is the year and location of the JFK assasssination
1963, Dallas Texas
who was Taoiseach on VE day in 1945
Eamonn De Velera
what year did the battle of clontarf take place
1014
how many years did Nelson Mandela spend in prison
27 years
What year was Michael Collins killed
1922
which country was the first to give women the right to vote
new zealand
what was the name of the treaty signed between the Western Allies and Germany at the end of WW1
Treaty of Versailles
What was Mussolini’s first name
Benito
2, For how many months was queen Victoria on the throne
763 months
what presidents are in mount Rushmore
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt
When was the Great Depression
1929 - 1941
who assassinated JFK
Lee Harvey Oswald
who assassinated Abraham Lincoln and where
John Wilkes Booth
in Ford’s theatre in Washington DC
who shot the man who shot JFK
jack ruby
