Hungarian History and Politics

History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about Siege of Budapest with the correct year: On 29 December ______, Soviet envoys delivered an ultimatum demanding the surrender of Axis forces defending Budapest.
  2. Complete the sentence about Mátyás Rákosi with the correct year: Rákosi had been involved in left-wing politics since his youth, and in ______ was a leading commissar in the short-lived Hungarian Sovi…
  3. Complete the sentence about Mátyás Rákosi with the correct year: After Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's famous "Secret Speech" in early ______ denouncing the crimes of Stalin, Rákosi found his positi…
  4. Complete the sentence about Mátyás Rákosi with the correct year: Rákosi was finally forced to resign in July ______ and leave for the Soviet Union, replaced by his second-in-command Ernő Gerő.
  5. Complete the sentence about Hungarian Revolution of 1956 with the correct year: Moreover, by ______, the relatively free politics of Hungary allowed intellectuals and journalists to freely criticize t…
  6. Complete the sentence about János Kádár with the correct year: On 25 October ______, during the Hungarian Revolution, Kádár replaced Ernő Gerő as General Secretary of the Party, taking part in Nagy's…
  7. Complete the sentence about Pan-European Picnic with the correct year: The Pan-European Picnic itself developed further from a meeting between Otto von Habsburg and Ferenc Mészáros in June ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Pan-European Picnic with the correct year: The Iron Curtain was strictly guarded and fully intact until August ______, even if individual technical systems were dismantled.
  9. Complete the sentence about Pan-European Picnic with the correct year: Beginning in ______, the Hungarian government claimed that it opened refugee camps for Romanian citizens that supposedly crossed…
  10. Complete the sentence about Pan-European Picnic with the correct year: The government further claimed that in the early summer of ______, thirty to forty thousand people sought asylum in Hungary.
  11. Complete the sentence about Hungarian Round Table Talks with the correct year: The talks originated in March ______ as a meeting among opposition groups.
  12. Complete the sentence about Hungarian Round Table Talks with the correct year: The Communists themselves used the initiative to force a vote on direct election of the president on 29 July ______, but…
  13. Complete the sentence about József Antall with the correct year: József Tihamér Antall de Dörgicse et Kisjene was born to an ancient Hungarian family from the lower nobility in Budapest on 8 April ___…
  14. Complete the sentence about József Antall with the correct year: On 30 September ______, Antall was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Central Connecticut State University.
  15. Complete the sentence about Hungarian forint with the correct year: The forint's name comes from the Italian city of Florence, where gold coins called fiorino d'oro were minted from ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about National Bank of Hungary with the correct year: For a short period during the Hungarian Revolution of ______, the revolutionary government used the recently established Hun…
  17. Complete the sentence about National Bank of Hungary with the correct year: The new Budapest head office building of the Austro-Hungarian Bank was inaugurated in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about National Bank of Hungary with the correct year: In ______, the National Bank introduced the Hungarian pengő to replace the korona.
  19. Complete the sentence about National Bank of Hungary with the correct year: In ______, the Hungarian National Bank was a founding shareholder of the Bank for International Settlements.
  20. Complete the sentence about National Bank of Hungary with the correct year: The MNB introduced a new currency, the Hungarian forint, on 1 August ______.
  21. Complete the sentence about National Assembly with the correct year: Since ______, the assembly has met in the Hungarian Parliament Building in Budapest.
  22. Complete the sentence about National Assembly with the correct year: As a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, it was reconstituted in ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about National Assembly with the correct year: Under the Constitution of ______, initially drafted by the communists, it was vested with great lawmaking and oversight powers.
  24. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Hungary with the correct year: Ferdinand V appointed Count Lajos Batthyány for the position of prime minister of Hungary on 17 March ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Hungarian Defence Forces with the correct year: In a significant move for modernization, Hungary decided in ______ to buy 14 JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft for about €800 m…
  26. Complete the sentence about Hungarian Defence Forces with the correct year: Hungarian National Cyber Security Center was re-organized in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Fidesz with the correct year: After winning a parliamentary supermajority in the ______ election, Fidesz pursued national-conservative, Christian-nationalist, and Euroscept…
  28. Complete the sentence about Fidesz with the correct year: Using its supermajority, it promulgated a new constitution, the Fundamental Law, in ______, which further consolidated its power.
  29. Complete the sentence about Fidesz with the correct year: In the ______ elections, the party entered the National Assembly after winning about 6% of the vote.
  30. Complete the sentence about Hungarian Socialist Party with the correct year: At a party congress on 7 October ______, the MSZMP dissolved and refounded itself as the MSZP, with Nyers as its first pres…
  31. Complete the sentence about Hungarian Socialist Party with the correct year: The MSZP faced the voters for the first time at the ______ elections, the first free elections held in Hungary in 44 years.
  32. Complete the sentence about Jobbik with the correct year: The new party elected Dávid Kovács as president, serving until ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Jobbik with the correct year: A key figure was Gergely Pongrátz who, in a speech to the founding conference, invoked the Hungarian Revolution of ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Visegrád Group with the correct year: The alliance traces its origins to the summit meetings of leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland, held in the Hungarian castle…
  35. Complete the sentence about Visegrád Group with the correct year: In ______, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of communism in central and eastern Europe enabled Poland, Hungary and Czechoslova…
  36. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Karlowitz with the correct year: Therefore, the areas that were lost 27 years earlier in the Treaty of Buchach in ______ were regained.
  37. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Karlowitz with the correct year: Commissions were set-up to demarcate the new borders between the Austrians and the Ottomans, with some parts disputed until _____…
  38. Complete the sentence about Hungarian nobility with the correct year: The Golden Bull of ______ established their liberties, especially tax exemption and the limitation of military obligations.
  39. Complete the sentence about Hussars with the correct year: After the king's death, in ______, hussars became the standard form of cavalry in Hungary in addition to the heavy cavalry.
  40. Complete the sentence about Hussars with the correct year: Initially the first units of Polish Hussars in the Kingdom of Poland were formed around ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Hungarian language with the correct year: Linguistic connections between Hungarian and other Uralic languages were noticed in the 1670s, and the family's existence was esta…
  42. Complete the sentence about Hungarian Academy of Sciences with the correct year: The origins of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences date back to ______, when Count István Széchenyi offered one year's in…
  43. Complete the sentence about Hungarian Academy of Sciences with the correct year: The academy's central building, designed in the Renaissance Revival architecture by architect Friedrich August Stüler…
  44. Which place completes the sentence? The year of his birth is uncertain, but many details of his life suggest that he was born in, or after, 975, in ______.
  45. Which place completes the sentence? In 1844 he walked from ______ to Pest to find a publisher for his poems and succeeded.
  46. Which place completes this sentence about Pan-European Picnic? Beginning in 1989, the Hungarian government claimed that it opened refugee camps for Romanian citizens that supposedly crossed the Hungar…
  47. Which place completes this sentence about Visegrád Group? The alliance traces its origins to the summit meetings of leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland, held in the Hungarian castle town of…
  48. Which place completes this sentence about Visegrád Group? All four members of the ______ Group joined the European Union on 1 May 2004, achieving its main goal.
  49. Complete the sentence about Jobbik with the correct year: On 25 February ______ the party's congress announced that the party legally changed its name to Jobbik – Conservatives.
  50. Complete the sentence about Hungarian Kingdom with the correct year: From ______, territories connected to the Hungarian crown were incorporated into Austria-Hungary under the name of Lands of the Cro…
  51. Complete the sentence about Hungarian Kingdom with the correct year: The monarchy ended with the deposition of the last king Charles IV in ______, after which Hungary became a republic.
  52. Complete the sentence about Hungarian Revolution of 1956 with the correct year: Moreover, by ______, the relatively free politics of Hungary allowed intellectuals and journalists to freely criticize t…
  53. Complete the sentence about János Áder with the correct year: Áder was elected as an MEP during the ______ European Parliament election.
  54. Complete the sentence about János Áder with the correct year: Beginning in ______, he studied law for five years at the faculty of Law and Political Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
  55. Complete the sentence about János Áder with the correct year: With Fidesz in opposition after the ______ election, Áder led the Fidesz caucus opposition.
  56. Complete the sentence about Katalin Novák with the correct year: Novák began working at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in ______, specializing in European Union and European matters.
  57. Complete the sentence about Katalin Novák with the correct year: On 10 March ______, she won gaining 137 out of 188 votes in the National Assembly.
  58. Complete the sentence about Péter Medgyessy with the correct year: Medgyessy was born into an old Transylvanian noble family in Budapest on 19 October ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Gyula Horn with the correct year: During his premiership, he launched the Bokros package, the biggest fiscal austerity programme in post-communist Hungary, in ______.
  60. Complete the sentence about Gyula Horn with the correct year: Horn was born in Budapest in ______ as the third child of transport worker Géza Horn who was of Jewish background and factory worker Anna…
  61. Complete the sentence about Gyula Horn with the correct year: After the German occupation of Hungary, his father was kidnapped by the Gestapo due to communist activities in ______ and never returned.
  62. Complete the sentence about Gyula Horn with the correct year: In ______ Horn became an official in the foreign affairs department of the MSZMP Central Committee.
  63. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 24 February ______, he was elected as the leader of the MSZP, winning 89% of the vote.
  64. Complete the sentence about Ferenc Gyurcsány with the correct year: On 21 March ______, Gyurcsány announced his intention to resign as prime minister.
  65. Complete the sentence about Ferenc Gyurcsány with the correct year: On 28 March ______ Gyurcsány resigned from his position as party chairman.
  66. Complete the sentence about Ferenc Gyurcsány with the correct year: A minister under Gyurcsány, Gordon Bajnai, became the nominee of MSZP for the post of prime minister in March ______ and he became p…
  67. Which place completes this sentence about Árpád? According to historian ______ Kristó, Árpád was born around 845.
  68. Which place completes this sentence about Grand Prince Géza? Even so, ______ Kristó wrote that Géza was born around 940 and the emperor ignored him because of his youth.
  69. Which place completes this sentence about Battle of Mohi? Ugrin Csák, Archbishop of ______, also tried to attack a Mongol contingent, but he was lured to a swamp and his armoured cavalry became irretr…

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