Monday: History Flashcards
Liberal presidents like Ismael Montes controlled this country during its switch to a tin-exporting economy, while its current president once demonstrated the difference between cocaine and its signature crop of coca by holding up a coca leaf at the U.N.
Bolivia
This war was sparked by Macon’s Bill No. 2, and Tecumseh died during its Battle of the Thames
War of 1812
The Soviet Union’s post-war boundaries were formally acknowledged at a 1975 set of accords named for this nation’s capital.
Finland
This man worked with Jules Favre to negotiate the Treaty of Frankfurt, and he sent Marshal MacMahon to restore order in the capital, resulting in the Bloody Week.
Thiers
It won the Battle of Mohacs against Hungary, but was defeated by King Jan Sobieski of Poland when it tried to capture Vienna.
Ottoman Empire
He wrote a work displayed prominently at Nuremberg rallies which advocates killing Jews.
Martin Luther
The members of this dynasty were all descended from Robert the Strong
Capetian Dynasty
Clifford Cummings headed a project investigating this body.
Moon
She interpreted a tornado as divine approval for her actions, begun after receiving a message to “Go to Kiowa,” and referred to herself as “a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus.”
Carrie Nation
This ruler consolidated power by merging the conservative Carlist party with the Falange (fa-LON-hay) party founded by Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera.
Francisco Franco
Name this South American country that, in 1973, switched from the socialist rule of Salvador Allende (EYE-end-ay) to the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (PEE-noh-chayt).
Chile
Its bloodiest battle took place at Lundy’s Lane.
War of 1812
A curse on this country is blamed for the death of a Nazi governor during World War II.
Kingdom of Bohemia
He served as governor of two different states, and authored the declaration of rights and grievances for the Stamp Act Congress
John Dickenson
This country fought in the Continuation War after giving up control of the Hanko Peninsula.
Finland
This man was the first to use the word Megalonyx to describe a certain genus of ground sloth.
Thomas Jefferson
Name this man during whose presidency the Lewis and Clark Expedition took place.
Thomas Jefferson
The VENTRILOQUIST network was informed of this event when its planners broadcast two lines of Verlaine’s “Autumn Song” over the radio.
D-Day
Name this country that has recently been led by prime minister Romano Prodi from Rome.
Italy
In one year, this leader signed a Concordat with the Vatican and a pact with the U.S., and two years later his country entered the UN.
Francisco Franco
According to legend, anybody who illegitimately put on the crown of this kingdom would die within a year.
Kingdom of Bohemia
Under King (+) Ottokar the Great, this kingdom briefly had a coastline on the Adriatic sea, but lost it at the Battle of Marchfeld, where it was defeated by its two neighbors, Austria and Hungary.
Bohemia
The defenders in this operation had prepared for an assault on Pas-de-Calais and were commanded by General Rommel.
D-Day
Name this country that shares its name with a U.S. state
Georgia
During the Korean War, he had wanted to cross the Yalu River to attack the Chinese, and was eventually removed from command after trying to drum up support for this offensive in Congress.
Douglas MacArthur
Name this Crusade which attempted to peacefully take Jerusalem in 1212, which failed entirely after recruiting youthful members.
The Children’s Crusade
He convened the synod of Pavia in an attempt to get Victor IV elected pope over Alexander III, and after Victor’s death, he successfully placed Paschal III as antipope.
Frederick Barbarossa
This ruler promoted commerce by abolishing toll barriers and establishing a policy of free markets and open guilds in Kano.
Oda Nobunaga
He imposed crop productivity-based taxation rates in the dahsala system inspired by his former Pashtun adversary, Sher Shah Suri.
Akbar
This kingdom was first ruled by the Premyslid dynasty.
Bohemia
This republic was created when, in 1946, Victor Emmanuel III abdicated the throne.
Italy
In the 1990s, the Clementine mission studied this body.
Moon
Supported by the Ghibellines, this man named his son Henry VI as his successor before departing on the Third Crusade.
Frederick Barbarossa
With Francois Mignet he founded the anti-Bourbon daily Le National, and this leading Orleanist was the chief rival of Francois Guizot in the July Monarchy.
Thiers
This empire was known as the “sick man of Europe” before World War I.
Ottoman Empire
Along with Lucius III, he convened the synod of Verona, which condemned Waldensianism and Albigensianism
Frederick Barbarossa
Name this civil war that took place after Yakubu Gowon came to power, in which a primarily Igbo secessionist state was created in 1967 before it was reabsorbed into its larger African country in 1970.
Nigerian Civil War
Steve Biko was killed by police in this country, and a protest by people who wanted to be taught in English led to police violence in Soweto.
South Africa
He strengthened his position as a staunch abolitionist with his speech against the Compromise of 1850, in which he argued that there was “a higher law than the Constitution.”
William Sewell
During World War II, it was led by Carl Mannerheim and lost the Winter War to the Soviets.
Finland
Name this man who put down the Paris Commune and was elected as first president of the French Third Republic.
Thiers
This European country was home to the 1970s “historic compromise” between its communist party and its other political parties.
Italy
This country was the home of a member of the Oxygen Green, Marc Gonslaves, Kieth Stanwell and Thomas Howes, until Operation Jacque, was launched to rescue a person with French citizenship, Ingrid Betancourt, who supported Alvaro Uribe’s third term after years of captivity with FARC.
Colombia
Identify this nation, whose other current problems include the Medellin drug cartel.
Colombia
One of the greatest naval leaders of this empire was Hayreddin Barbarossa.
Ottoman Empire
Name this Frankish dynasty which included Charlemagne.
Carolingian Dynasty
Bayezid II paid a bribe to have his brother Cem imprisoned in this city by Pierre d’Aubusson, who had earlier defended it from a 1480 Ottoman Siege.
Rhodes
After being expelled from Jerusalem in the 14th century, the Knights of St. John made this their base, although were forced to find a new home after it was sacked in 1522 by Suleiman the Magnificent.
Rhodes
Robert Taylor wrote a work called Vessel of Wrath: The Life and Times of… this historical figure.
Carrie Nation
This country’s southwest is the autonomous province of Ajaria.
Georgia
The Maastricht Treaty required the adoption of this item for most signatories except for Denmark and England, the latter of which still uses the pound.
The Euro
This program led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act and a pair of Civil Rights Acts, as well as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Great Society
He designed the (*) Kansas-Nebraska Act before a split in his party caused John Breckinridge to receive more electoral votes than this man in the election of 1860
Stephen Douglas
Another group in this country is the Black Eagles, government combatted by using Search Bloc.
Colombia
Name this man who railed against indulgences in the 95 Theses.
Martin Luther
This country’s independence movement was helped by the Battle of Chacabuco.
Chile
Name this satellite visited by Apollo 11.
Moon
Name this Islamic empire in modern-day Turkey.
Ottoman Empire
Name this Portuguese explorer, who in 1498 became the first European to sail directly to India.
Vasco de Gama
The most recent area of contention in this country is a region in its central north centered on Tshkinvali, where forces from this country fought with Russian troops in the fall of 2008
Georgia
This thinker posits that Satan claims all unredeemed humans in On the Bondage of the Will.
Martin Luther
This man led a regiment in the Franco-Prussian War known as the Army of the Vosges
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Cavour and Victor Emmanuel II were supported by this man’s military actions.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
This country lost the copper-rich territory of Antofagasta after its defeat in a war sometimes called the Saltpeter War.
Bolivia
Give this name of the winner at the Battle of Milvian Bridge, the first Christian Roman emperor.
Constantine
This nation was defeated by Paraguay in a conflict over the supposedly oil-rich Gran Chaco, and it lost its coastline in the War of the Pacific
Bolivia
Name this kingdom whose capital was Prague, which shares its name with the major geographic region of the Czech Republic.
Bohemia
Its leaders include one nicknamed “the Magnificent,” and under Mehmet II, this empire captured Constantinople in 1453 and renamed it Instanbul.
Ottoman Empire
A group called the Activists assassinated Nikolay Bobrikov during this country’s struggle for independence.
Finland
It also included the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act and the creation of Upward Bound, which were both part of its War on Poverty.
Great Society
One ruler of this empire was Suleiman the Magnificent.
Ottoman Empire
The planners of this military action marked out beaches called “Juno,” “Gold,” “Sword,” and “Omaha
D-Day
ne group in this country is Joint Task Force OMEGA, that was part of Operation JM
Colombia
He allied with Tokugawa Ieyasu to win the Battle of Nagashino, but was killed by Akechi Mitsuhide in 1582
Oda Nobunaga
In his most famous post, he successfully resolved the Trent Affair and secured that the Confederacy would not gain foreign recognition
William Sewell
Name this Jamaican-born black nationalist who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and was a leader of the “Back to Africa” movement.
Marcus Garvey
Victories for this man came during an expedition against the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Name this set of social reforms enacted by Lyndon Johnson.
Great Society
Succeeding the Carolingian dynasty, it held power for over three hundred years before being replaced by the Valois dynasty.
Capetian Dynasty
A group commanded by this man fought in and won the Battles of Milazzo and Volturno.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
The northwestern extension of this country is another ethnic enclave called Abkhazia.
Georgia
A king of this dynasty who defeated the forces of emperor Otto IV at Bouvines was named Phillip Augustus
Capetian Dynasty
Name this victor of the Spanish Civil War who served as a fascist dictator of Spain from 1939 until 1975.
Francisco Franco
This ruler triumphed over Hemu with the aid of Bairam Khan at the Second Battle of Panipat after the death of his father, Humayun.
Akbar
This politician caused a split in his party by rejecting the demands of William Yancey.
Stephen Douglas
On the 500th anniversary of his most famous feat, Europe’s longest bridge was named for him
Vasco de Gama
Aruler of this name defeated his rival at the Battle of Chrysopolis, while another defeated Artabasdus early in his reign and was reportedly responsible for the death of Stephen the Younger. T
Constantine
One war simultaneous to this one saw its namesakes’ Red Sticks faction attack the southeastern US, the Creek War.
War of 1812
This man married Jodhaa Bai, a (*) Rajput princess, and developed the syncretic Din-e-Ilahi personality cult as part of domestic reforms highlighted by his repeal of the jizya tax on non-Muslims
Akbar
During this war, the poet Christopher Okigbo was killed.
Nigerian Civil War
Name this October 1813 battle that resulted in Napoleon’s abdication and exile on Elba.
Battle of Leipzig
The second wave involved in this event was led by Stephen of Cloyes, but its members were sent home by Philip II after reaching Saint-Denis
The Children’s Crusade
The treaty of Vereeniging ended the independence of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal in this modern day country, which had been settled by Boers who spoke Afrikaans.
South Africa
This ruler adopted a banner depicting eiraku coins and used an official seal labeled “rule the empire by force.”
Oda Nobunaga
Prior to this event, preparations were made against Scandinavia in Operation Fortitude, which employed inflatable artillery.
D-Day
A company this man founded bought a vastly overpriced World War I coal boat, the S.S. Yarmouth, which this man planned to rename after Frederick Douglass
Marcus Garvey
This empire’s “Tulip Era” saw major reforms, and its army was modernized during the “Auspicious Incident.”
Ottoman Empire
Name this “penman of the American Revolution” who wrote Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer.
John Dickenson
The aircraft carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and USS Yorktown were sunk during what naval battle between Isoroku Yamamoto and Chester Nimitz, fought exactly six months after Pearl Harbor in 1942?
Battle of Midway
This man once ordered the ship Miri to be set on fire with all its passengers inside.
Vasco de Gama
This American proposed using units of length based on pendulums in his Plan for establishing uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
One side in this war sacked Washington D.C., burning down the White House.
War of 1812
This leader increased Russian territory during the Finnish War and became King of Poland according to the Congress of Vienna
Alexander I
This ruler constructed the fortress of Azuchi Castle, ordered the massacre of the warrior monks at Mount Hiei, and defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto at the Battle of Okehazuma
Oda Nobunaga
One conflict in this battle saw forces under Stephen van Rensselaer unsuccessfully attack Queenston Heights, leading to the death of defender Isaac Brock
War of 1812
Name this Greek island city which was home to an ancient “colossus.”
Rhodes
A ruler of this dynasty won all his battles except for the Battle of Cologne, including the Battle of (*) Tours.
Carolingian Dynasty
Preceded by the breaking of the code JN-25 and Operation Al, an invasion of Kiska and Attu, this battle resulted in Tamon Yamaguchi going down with his ship
Battle of Midway
The first group involved in this crusade was led by a shepherd from Germany, and its dismal failure may have included the sale of some of its members into slavery.
The Children’s Crusade
Rulers of this dynasty include Louis the Pious, Pepin the Short, and Charles Martel
Carolingian Dynasty
This battle saw an early skirmish in which surprise fighting broke on in the streets of Wachau, but its beginning occurred as Austrian forces advanced on a Polish-held mill in Dölitz.
Battle of Leipzig
Paul Krugman called this item “doomed” in an article which compared Ireland’s financial policy to Iceland, which does not use this and was free to devaluate.
The Euro
It was the subject of Project Ranger and it was the target of the first generation of Pioneer missions
Moon
In addition authoring to On the Jews and their Lies and On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, he said “Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me,” while being tried at the Diet of Worms, and translated the Bible into German.
Martin Luther
Its second most important official worked in a building called the “Sublime Porte” and had the title “Grand Vizier.”
Ottoman Empire
During this event, attacking forces suffered high casualties trying to capture Pointe-du-Hoc.
D-Day
In this country, the Dutch native Henrik Verwoerd was assassinated by Dimitri Tsafendas, and members of the “Spear of the Nation” were charged with conspiracy in the Rivonia Trials.
South Africa
One ruler of this dynasty was nearly killed when a gallery he was passing through collapsed, leading him to issue a decree known as the Ordinatio Imperii, which gave his son Bernard the title of King of Italy.
Carolingian Dynasty
In 1998, wreckage from this engagement was found by Robert Ballard.
Battle of Midway
This man was responsible for placing a padrão on the banks of the River of Good Omens, which is today better known as the Quelimane River.
Vasco de Gama
Recently the LRO was launched by NASA to study it.
Moon
Today the third most populous English-speaking country in North America, this is what island in the Greater Antilles with capital at Kingston?
Jamacia
Another of his works denies that Extreme Unction and Matrimony are sacraments
Matin Luther
While Minister of Public Works, this man constructed the last wall built around Paris, and he popularized the maxim “the king reigns but does not govern.”
Thiers
Usually considered the successful execution of the Trachenburg Plan, this battle saw the French expulsed from a school house by Poniatowski and the Polish forces in the town of Markkleeberg.
Battle of Leipzig
his leader was succeeded by Juan Carlos I after coming to power in a civil war that included the bombing of Guernica.
Francisco Franco
During the “Years of Lead,” the Red Brigades kidnapped and murdered this country’s prime minister, Aldo Moro
Italy
This country, which claims control over the breakaway region of South Ossetia, is a Caucasian state that borders Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, Russia, and the Black Sea
Georgia
This country employed motti tactics to win the Battle of Raate Road, and it cooperated with Germany in Operation Silver Fox against Murmansk.
Finland
name this French dynasty founded by Hugh in 987
Capetian Dynasty
e came into conflict with a certain Zamorin he believed to be a Christian, but soon returned home against a (*) monsoon on the São Gabriel.
Vasco de Gama
This man was convicted of mail fraud regarding the sale of stock for his Black Star Line.
Marcus Garvey
A king of this dynasty who was succeeded by his uncle Phillip V and lived for five days was known as John the Posthumous
Capetian Dynasty
This territory fought the Long War against the Hapsburgs after winning the Battle of Mohacs (MO-“hatch”).
Ottoman Empire
Name this war in which Andrew Jackson defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans after its official end at the Treaty of Ghent.
War of 1812
During this man’s presidency, Zebulon Pike explored part of a new addition to the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
Name this grandson of Babur, the greatest Mughal emperor.
Akbar
Along with Thomas McKean, he was one of the two members of the Continental Congress to enter the military, and he opposed John Adams in the Continental Congress by voting against the Declaration of Independence.
John Dickenson
A military coup in this country installed a ruler who became one of the leading figures in Operation Condor.
Chile
The name of this program was coined by speechwriter Richard N. Goodwin, and it was notably laid out in a speech at the University of Michigan
Great Society
Name this daimyo whose goal of unifying all of Japan was achieved by his successor Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Oda Nobunaga
Name this founder of the Medicine Lodge branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, known for smashing up saloons with a hatchet.
Carrie Nation
Despite being part of the Holy Roman Empire, most of the people in this kingdom spoke a Slavic language, and several of its kings were named Wenceslaus.
Bohemia
Name this Holy Roman Emperor who drowned on that Crusade and notably had a red beard.
Frederick Barbarossa
Derided by Karl Marx as a “Richelieu” and a “Demosthenes” for his party, this man gained national recognition with his defense of Henry Wyatt and William Freeman.
William Sewell
Historians argue about whether or not he knew about the assassination plot that brought him to power against his father Paul the First.
Alexander I
Some participants in this event sought to capture the Merville Gun Battery as part of Operation Tonga.
D-Day
This man prepared the first draft of the Articles of Confederation, and composed the Olive Branch Petition.
John Dickenson
Gondar became the capital of this country after its unification by King Fasilides. Its later rulers included Theodore II, who committed suicide after a British invasion, and Lij Yasu, who was deposed after converting to Islam.
Ethiopia
Representatives of the successor state to this empire signed the Treaty of Lausanne.
Ottoman Empire
One year before this war, an attempted coup was organized by the “five (+) majors.”
Nigerian Civil War
Frederick Charles of Hesse was very briefly proclaimed king of this country in 1918, and a war named for this country was concluded with the Treaty of Fredrikshamn
Finland
On his first voyage, he gave a province he passed on Christmas Day the name Natal, and he’d go on to places like Mombasa and Malindi on that voyage.
Vasco de Gama
This figure was imprisoned on the Isle of Pines before going into exile in Mexico, returning home on the yacht Granma
Fidel Castro
Name this empire that was replaced after World War I by Turkey.
Ottoman Empire
This man was accused of being the “Messenger Boy of the White Klu Klux Kleagle” after this man met with KKK leader Edward Young Clarke.
Marcus Garvey
An emperor of this name was the subject of a prophecy when Germanus witnessed him defecate in his baptismal font, and thus gained the nickname Copronymous
Constantine
In the aftermath of this conflict, the National Commission for Rehabilitation coordinated “The Three Rs” of Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Rehabilitation.
Nigerian Civil War
The current head of state of this country is a member of the Movimiento al Socialismo Party
Bolivia
In a letter about bridge building, this man was the first to use the English word catenary.
Thomas Jefferson
Although he was attacked by Lewis Powell, unlike Lincoln, he survived the assassination attempt.
William Sewell
This American military officer controversially kept Emperor Hirohito from facing war crimes trials, and helped write the constitution of Japan.
Douglas MacArthur
Her second husband’s involvement in the Jaybird-Woodpecker War forced their move to the area she is most associated with.
Carrie Nation
One side in this conflict had its capital at Enugu and was led by the former colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu.
Nigerian Civil War
Other cities on this island included a base for English pirates, Port Royal, and a city primarily known today as a stop for cruise ships, Montego Bay.
Jamacia
He was elected the “Provisional President of Africa” at a 1920 convention in Liberty Hall.
Marcus Garvey
It abrogated the Treaty of Ucciali and defeated a force led by Oreste Baratieri in its Tigray Region at the Battle of Adawa.
Ethiopia
It was on this island that Sir Anthony Shirley burned the town of St. Jago, sixty years before the capture of Tower Isle expelled the Spanish completely.
Jamacia
Its commander at Adawa, Emperor Menelik II, was a cousin of Ras Tafari, who became emperor under the name Haile Selassie.
Ethiopia
Name this country that ended apartheid soon before Nelson Mandela became its first black president.
South Africa
According to legend, he was convinced to become a mystic by Baroness Barbara Juliana von Kriüdener, so he moved to Siberia and changed his identity to Fyodor Kuzmich after faking his death
Alexander I
Name this Scandinavian country with capital at Helsinki.
Finland
A Burgundian force under Geoffroy de Thoisy helped fend off a 1444 Mamluk siege of this city.
Rhodes
As Minister of Foreign Affairs, he almost caused a war with Britain in the Oriental Crisis of 1840, when he supported the Syrian campaign of Muhammad Ali.
Thiers
The Spanish had earlier been defeated in Ocho Rios and had abandoned its capital at Spanish Town on this island
Jamacia
This creator of the Freeport Doctrine was instrumental to the passage of the Compromise of 1850.
Stephen Douglas
A ruler of this dynasty was crowned by Pope Stephen II.
Carolingnian Dynasty
Name this event codenamed “Operation Overlord” in which the Allies invaded Normandy.
D-Day
The most famous one of this name issued the Edict of Milan and was written about by Eusebius
Constantine
This empire employed slave soldiers called Janisarries.
Ottoman Empire
Though Napoleon’s side was bolstered by men from the Confederation of the Rhine, the Prince of Schwarzenherg’s coalition of six nations emerged victorious
Battle of Leipzig
This Russian leader employed Ioannis Kapodistrias, who became the first leader of the First Hellenic Republic, which became the modern nation of Greece.
Alexander I
Name this landlocked Latin American country currently ruled by Evo Morales.
Bolivia
In ancient times, its harbor was home to a wonder of the ancient world which was destroyed in a 226 BCE earthquake.
Rhodes
This country’s center-right coalition is known as the “Pole of Freedoms.”
Italy
This leader blamed his downfall on Alphonse de Rothschild, though that man had provided loans for this leader to pay a five billion franc indemnity ahead of schedule.
Thiers
This country’s first supreme director fought in that battle and was named (*) Bernardo O’Higgins.
Chile
He created a namesake wheel cipher and many of his scientific ideas can be found in his Notes on the State of Virginia .
Thomas Jefferson
The most recent country to adopt this item, on January 1, 2011, was Estonia.
The Euro
A king of this dynasty was captured by Edward the Black Prince and was ransomed after the battle of Poitiers
Capetian Dynasty
Jim Lovell commanded a failed mission to reach it.
Moon
One ruler by this name overcame the rebellion of Perbundus and was victorious at the naval Battle of Syllaeum.
Constantine
One important turning point in this battle was Murat’s disastrous use of cavalry arranged in columns at Liebertwolkwitz, followed shortly by Blücher’s routing of Marmont’s French forces at Möckern.
Battle of Leipzig
This man defended the adoption of the Constitution under the name “Fabius.”
John Dickenson
One of this man’s policies was attacked in his rival’s Peoria Speech.
Stephen Douglas
Name this Tsar during the Napoleonic Wars.
Alexander I
The first budgets for this program were created by Kermit Gordon.
Great Society
Prior to it, one commander faced an attack of psoriasis before being replaced by Raymond Spruance
Battle of Midway
Name this Secretary of State perhaps best known for his “folly,” the purchase of Alaska.
William Sewell
The translation of the Latin word “pueri” has led to some confusion as to the identity of the participants in this event.
The Children’s Crusade
Identify this landlocked East African country with capital at Addis Ababa.
Ethiopia
This man forced the thirty-three mansabdari to supply his army, and he employed the biographer Abul Fazl along with the musician Tansen and sage jester Birbal as one of his Nine Jewels
Akbar
After failing to seize Moncada barracks, his “History will absolve me” speech helped organize the 26th of July movement to depose Fulcengio Batista, after which he resisted the Bay of Pigs invasion along with his brother Raúl.
Fidel Castro
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, under the employ of Tsar Nicholas II, developed an alternative method to enhancing this invention
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