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Hungarians killed by secret police

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2,000

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hungarians killed in the uprising

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4,000

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3
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amount of Soviet soldiers sent to destroy the Hungarian uprising

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200,000

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4
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amount of Soviet tanks sent to destroy the Hungarian uprising

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6,000

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5
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the peak amount of flights and date

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1,938 from 16-17th April

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6
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most amounts of supplies dropped of the Berlin blockade

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13,000 tonnes in 24 hours

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7
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Muslims executed at Acre

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2,700

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8
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how many killed in the My Lai massacre

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347

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9
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what Saxon punishment was replaced by Werguild

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Blood feud

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10
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the murdrum fine was introduced by the?

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Normans

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11
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poachers could be blinded under what law by the Normans

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Forest laws

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12
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who declared his ‘utter detestation’ of Catholics in 1604

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James 1st

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13
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where were there 250 cases of witchcraft between 1645-1647

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East Anglia

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14
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in 1723 what law made poaching a capital offence

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Black Act

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15
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how many smugglers were there in the 18th century

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20,000

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16
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how many people signed a petition for the Tolpuddle Martyrs to be released

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250,000

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how many people were transported from 1787-1850

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150,000

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18
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who established the metropolitan police in 1829

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Sir Robert Peel

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19
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how many flights were there during the Berlin Airlift between 1948-1949

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275,000

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20
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in what year did both the US USSR test their first hydrogen bombs

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1953

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21
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when was the Berlin wall constructed

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1961

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22
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the limited test ban treaty was signed in

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1963

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23
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in 1968 Dubcek met with the Yugoslavian leader Tito which alarmed who

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Brezhnev

24
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how many Soviet troops were sent into Afganistan to fight the Mujahideen

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85,000

25
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who won the first free elections in Eastern Europe in 1989

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A free trade union, solidarity

26
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how many people crossed from east to west a day after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989

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1 million a day

27
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how much was the church tax Tithing

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10%

28
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when were jews attacked in York and the records of debts destroyed

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1190

29
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which city fell to the crusaders siege

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Acre

30
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how much was the ransom for Richard 1st from Duke Leopold of Austria

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100,000 marks

31
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how much did Chateau Galliard cost Richard to build

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£12,000

32
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what year was Richard able to recapture all of Normandy

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1199

33
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in 1200 what treaty did John sign in which he agreed to pay Phillip 20,000 marks

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treaty of Le Goulet

34
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who did John fail to compensate for taking his fiancee Isabella of Angouleme

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Hugh de Luisgnan

35
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john doubled the tax in 1207 with the introduction of what tax

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the thirteenth

36
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when did Prince Louis of France land in England to join the Barons against John in the First Barons war

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May 1216

37
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what 1896 ruling did Brown V Topeka overrule saying that it was not ‘separate but equal’

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Plessy V Ferguson

38
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how many people took part in the bus boycott

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20,000

39
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what event did President Eisenhower intervene to overrule Arkansas state governor Orval Faubus

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Little rock nine in 1957

40
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who bombed the freedom rides in May 1961

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KKK

41
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president Kennedy had to send 320 Federal Marshals to escort who to go to the University of Mississippi in 1962

A

James Meredith

42
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when were four civil rights activists murdered during the freedom rides

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1964

43
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which president passed the Civil rights act of 1964

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Lyndon B Johnson

44
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who founded the Black Panthers

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Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

45
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what year were there race riots in 125 US cities

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1967

46
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what percentage of black children were in segregated schools at the start and end of Nixon’s terms

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start 1968 68%

end 1974 8%

47
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Eisenhower got involved in Vietnam following what in 1954

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Geneva agreement

48
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how did Diem’s sister in law respond to the Buddist monk burning themselves in protest in 1963

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she said she hoped for more ‘barbecues’

49
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what did Johnson use as an excuse for America to have ground troops in the Vietnam war in 1964

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that the US ship ‘the Maddox’ was attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin

50
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what percentage of US deaths in Vietnam were caused by booby traps

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11%

51
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what was the name of the bombing campaign that dropped twice as many bombs then the allied forces did in WW11

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Operation rolling thunder

52
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what year was the Tet offensive

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1968

53
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when was the Kent state shootings which killed 4 students

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1970

54
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what percentage of Americans supported and opposed the invasion of Cambodia in 1970

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50% supported the invasion whereas only 35% opposed the invasion

55
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how much did the cost of the Vietnam war increase for America from 1964-1968

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in 1964 only 0.5 billion dollars was spent whereas 26.5 billion dollars was spent in 1968

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