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History of the Czech Lands

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  1. Who became the first president of Czechoslovakia in 1918?
  2. In which year did the Velvet Revolution bring the end of communist rule in Czechoslovakia?
  3. On which date did Czechoslovakia split peacefully into the Czech Republic and Slovakia?
  4. Which Czech church reformer was burned at the stake in Constance in 1415?
  5. Which emperor founded Charles University in Prague in 1348?
  6. On what date did the Czech Republic join the European Union?
  7. Which dynasty ruled Bohemia from the early Middle Ages until 1306?
  8. Which document of 1212 made the Bohemian royal title hereditary for the Přemyslids?
  9. Which Hussite military leader won battles with war wagons in the fifteenth century?
  10. Who was Jiří z Poděbrad (George of Poděbrady)?
  11. In which year did the Habsburgs begin to rule the Kingdom of Bohemia, after Ferdinand I was elected king?
  12. What happened in Prague in 1618?
  13. What was the main result of the battle of White Mountain in 1620?
  14. Where were 27 leaders of the Czech revolt executed in 1621?
  15. What did Joseph II's Patent of Toleration of 1781 allow?
  16. Which battle of 1805, fought near Brno, was won by Napoleon over Russian and Austrian armies?
  17. When was the independent state of Czechoslovakia proclaimed?
  18. What was the Munich Agreement of 1938?
  19. What happened on 15 March 1939?
  20. Which Czech village was destroyed by the Nazis in 1942 in revenge for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich?
  21. What was the Prague Uprising of May 1945?
  22. In which month and year did the communists take power in Czechoslovakia?
  23. Who was the leader of the reform movement known as the Prague Spring in 1968?
  24. What happened on the night of 20 to 21 August 1968?
  25. What was Charter 77?
  26. Who was Jan Palach?
  27. In which year did the Czech Republic become a member of NATO?
  28. Which emperor made Prague the centre of his court at the end of the sixteenth century and supported astronomers such as Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler?
  29. How many years passed between the burning of Jan Hus (1415) and the battle of White Mountain (1620)?
  30. Which order of these events is correct from earliest to latest?
  31. Which country refused to take part in the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968?
  32. Which statement distinguishes the Golden Bull of Sicily (1212) from the Golden Bull of Charles IV (1356)?
  33. How many years passed between the founding of Czechoslovakia (1918) and its division (1993)?
  34. Which was a long-term consequence of the defeat at White Mountain in 1620?
  35. Which statement about the Munich Agreement of 1938 is correct?

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