Specific Facts 2 Flashcards
Who introduced the church courts?
Norman’s
When was trial by ordeal abolished?
1215
After what year did all unnatural deaths have to be reported to the coroner?
1190
What was benefit of the clergy?
People avoiding harsher royal court punishments by reading a passage of the bible
What happened to the gunpowder plotters and Guy Fawkes in 1605?
Hung drawn and quartered
In the 1560-1600 the number of vagabonds increases from what to what due to the bad harvests of the 1590s
69 to 555
What made it difficult for Assize judges to travel around England and enforce law
The civil war
The bloody code saw how many crimes punishable by death and when
50 in 1688 to 225 in 1815
In 1777 what report did John Howard criticise conditions in prisons
The state of prisons
When was fingerprinting first introduced?
1901
In what conference was Germany divided in 1945
Potsdam
When was Germany formally made two separate countries
1949
How much money did the Marshall plan put into West Europe in 1953
$17 billion
When was NATO formed?
1949
When was the Warsaw Pact formed?
1955
Who was executed after the Hungarian uprising
Nagy
When was the failed invasion of Cuba (bay of pigs)
1961
Who was supported by the CIA and were part of the bay of pigs invasion
La Brigada 2506
What event caused the hotline between Washington and Moscow to be set up
Cuban missile crisis
What was instigated after the Prague spring in 1968
Brezhnev doctrine
SALT || was agreed in 1979 but wasn’t ratified because of what?
The soviet unions invasion of Afghanistan
What was the defence program announced by Reagan in 1983
Star Wars
What was gorbachevs new thinking?
Perestroika(re-structuring allowing private ownership) Glasnost (openness more freedom)
Barons could pay scutage instead of supply knights for the king but what is it?
Paying a tax
Who did Richard the 1st defeat at the battle of Arsuf
Saladin
What was agreed in the treaty of Jaffa?
Saladin would keep control of Jerusalem but Christians could go there on pilgrimage
How was Richards ransom paid for in England?
Aid tax of 25% of moveables
Who were the three counts who Richard persuaded to switch from Phillips side to Richards?
Boulogne, Flanders and Toulouse
Who did John reward with Bishop of Winchester?
Peter des Roche’s
Who did John starve to death when he had them as hostages
Matilda de Briouze and her son
What is the battle in which John loses control of Normandy in 1214 after retreating and causing his ally Otto to be defeated
Battle of Bouvines
John did not keep the agreements in the Magna Carta so how did he counter this?
Got the pope to annul it
Who defeated Prince Louis troops at the battle of Lincoln in 1216
William Marshall
When was Martin Luther kings house firebombed by the KKK?
1956
The Montgomery improvement association used what ruling to say that bus segregation was in-constitutional?
Brown V Topeka
Why were the white citizens councils set up?
To fight Brown V Topeka and to campaign against the NAACP
What was signed by the southern politicians to oppose federal interference in segregation?
Southern Manifesto
How were the SNCC set up
With a grant from the SCLC
Why did Bull Connor give the Birmingham police Mother’s Day off?
So the police didn’t protect the freedom riders From the KKK
How many attended the march on Washington in 1963
250,000 people and 80,000 whites
Who did JFK appoint as the NAACP federal judge?
Thurgood Marshall
Which two athletes made a black power salute in the 1968 Mexico olympics?
Tommy Smith and John Carlos
How much damage did the Watts Riots do?
$40 million
What was the program
Called which moved Vietnamese from their ancestral burial grounds into fortified villages?
Strategic hamlet project
How many military advisors did JFK send to Vietnam?
16,000
What percent of south Vietnam had been taken by the Vietcong in 1963?
35%
How many US soldiers were sent to Vietnam in 1965?
200,000
How did the Vietcong help villagers?
Helped collect the harvest
How many Vietnamese were killed for collaborating with the south?
27,000
How long did it take to clear Saigon of Vietcong after the Tet offensive?
2 days
What were the aims of the attacks on Cambodia and Laos by Nixon in 1970-71
Cut of the Ho Chi Minh Trail
What was the heroin addiction rate of US soldiers
30%
How many construction workers took part in the hard hats demonstration in New York?
200
When did congress cut funding for the war?
1973
