Lithuanian History and Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Lithuania with the correct year: In ______, the Grand Duchy formed a dynastic union with Poland through the Union of Krewo.
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Lithuania with the correct year: During the Second Northern War, the Grand Duchy sought protection under the Swedish Empire through the Union of Kėdainiai in ___…
  3. Complete the sentence about History of Lithuania with the correct year: On 16 February ______, Lithuania was re-established as a democratic state.
  4. Complete the sentence about Balts with the correct year: In Germanic languages there was some form of the toponym East Sea until after about the year ______, when maps in English began to label it as…
  5. Complete the sentence about Balts with the correct year: By ______, German nobles of the Governorate of Livonia adopted the term "Balts" to distinguish themselves from Germans of Germany.
  6. Complete the sentence about Balts with the correct year: In ______, Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann proposed a distinct language group for Latvian, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian, which he termed Ba…
  7. Complete the sentence about Balts with the correct year: The term became prevalent after Latvia and Lithuania gained independence in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Mindaugas with the correct year: By ______, Mindaugas was already being referred to as "the highest king" in certain documents.
  9. Complete the sentence about Mindaugas with the correct year: The disorder was not resolved until Traidenis gained the title of grand duke c. ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the correct year: By ______ the grand duchy had become the largest European state, controlling an area from the Baltic Sea in the north to the…
  11. Complete the sentence about Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the correct year: Mindaugas, the first ruler of the grand duchy, was crowned as the Catholic King of Lithuania in ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the correct year: After the Kościuszko Uprising, the territory was completely partitioned among the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia and…
  13. Complete the sentence about Gediminas with the correct year: Gediminas became the Grand Duke in ______ at the age of 40 and ruled for 25 years.
  14. Complete the sentence about Gediminas with the correct year: Gediminas allied himself with the Tatars against the Teutonic Order in ______.
  15. Complete the sentence about Gediminas with the correct year: Following these events, peace between the Duchy and the Livonian Order was eventually conducted on 2 October ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Algirdas with the correct year: Before his death in ______, Gediminas divided his domain, leaving his youngest son Jaunutis in possession of the capital, Vilnius.
  17. Complete the sentence about Algirdas with the correct year: With the aid of his brother Kęstutis, Algirdas drove out the incompetent Jaunutis and declared himself Grand Duke in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Algirdas with the correct year: Hermann von Wartberge and Jan Długosz described Algirdas as a pagan until his death in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Kęstutis with the correct year: The intermediary in the negotiations, Polish King Casimir III, made an unexpected assault on Volhynia and Brest in October ______, which rui…
  20. Complete the sentence about Kęstutis with the correct year: In March ______, Kęstutis, along with his son Patrikas and his brother Algirdas, destroyed and took over the Teutonic Eckersberg and Johanni…
  21. Complete the sentence about Kęstutis with the correct year: Algirdas died in ______ and left the throne to Jogaila, one of the sons he had from the second marriage to Uliana of Tver.
  22. Complete the sentence about Kęstutis with the correct year: On September 29, ______, a ten-year truce was signed in Trakai.
  23. Complete the sentence about Kęstutis with the correct year: In February ______, Jogaila, without Kęstutis, made a five-month truce with the Livonian Order to protect his Lithuanian domains and Polotsk…
  24. Complete the sentence about Jogaila with the correct year: The dynasty ruled both states until ______, and became one of the most influential dynasties in late medieval and early modern Europe.
  25. Complete the sentence about Vytautas the Great with the correct year: Vytautas' uncle Algirdas had been Grand Duke of Lithuania until his death in ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Vytautas the Great with the correct year: In ______, Jogaila signed the secret Treaty of Dovydiškės with the Teutonic Order against Kęstutis.
  27. Complete the sentence about Vytautas the Great with the correct year: When Kęstutis discovered this in ______, he seized Vilnius, imprisoned Jogaila, and made himself Grand Duke.
  28. Complete the sentence about Vytautas the Great with the correct year: In ______, Vytautas escaped from Kreva and he sought help from the Teutonic Order, who were negotiating with Jogaila at the time.
  29. Complete the sentence about Battle of the Blue Waters with the correct year: A short description of the battle survives only from late and not very reliable work of Maciej Stryjkowski, published in __…
  30. Complete the sentence about Battle of the Blue Waters with the correct year: Polish historian Stefan Maria Kuczyński produced a dedicated study Sine Wody in ______; Lithuanian Romas Batūra published L…
  31. Complete the sentence about Battle of the Blue Waters with the correct year: Nuo Batu antplūdžio iki mūšio prie Mėlynųjų Vandenų in ______; and Ukrainian Felix Shabuldo published numerous articles.
  32. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Grand Duke Algirdas died in ______ and left the throne to his son Jogaila.
  33. Complete the sentence about Union of Krewo with the correct year: The Treaty of Dubysa of ______ with the Knights included provisions of Jogaila's conversion within four years.
  34. Complete the sentence about Union of Lublin with the correct year: On 28 June ______, the last objections were overcome, and on 4 July, an act was accordingly signed by the king at Lublin Castle.
  35. Complete the sentence about Union of Lublin with the correct year: The constitution was not fully implemented, however, and the Commonwealth was ended with the Partitions of Poland in ______.
  36. Complete the sentence about Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth with the correct year: The Union of Lublin established the Commonwealth as a single entity on 1 July ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth with the correct year: As he remained childless, his death in ______ marked the end of the Jagiellonian dynasty.
  38. Complete the sentence about Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth with the correct year: By concluding the ______ Union of Lublin the Grand Duchy of Lithuania remained a separate state from the Crown of the…
  39. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian Statute with the correct year: The second statute came into effect in ______ by the order of the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, Sigismund II Augustu…
  40. Complete the sentence about Partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth with the correct year: The First Partition was decided on 5 August ______, after the Bar Confederation lost the war with Ru…
  41. Complete the sentence about Partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth with the correct year: The Third Partition took place on 24 October ______, in reaction to the unsuccessful Polish Kościusz…
  42. Complete the sentence about Partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth with the correct year: In February ______, the agreement of partition was signed in Vienna.
  43. Complete the sentence about Sigismund II Augustus with the correct year: Sigismund II Augustus married three times; his first wife, Elizabeth of Austria, died in ______ at just 18.
  44. Complete the sentence about Sigismund II Augustus with the correct year: Following the death of his sister Anna in ______, the Jagiellonian dynasty came to an end.
  45. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian National Revival with the correct year: Political claims were voiced in the Great Seimas of Vilnius, and political and cultural activity continued to grow after…
  46. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian National Revival with the correct year: The first important study on the Lithuanian national revival was written by Michał Pius Römer in ______ - Lietuva.
  47. Complete the sentence about Jonas Basanavičius with the correct year: In ______, he founded the Lithuanian Scientific Society, a learned society dedicated to Lithuanian history, ethnography, linguisti…
  48. Complete the sentence about Jonas Basanavičius with the correct year: In ______, he was elected by the Vilnius Conference to the Council of Lithuania.
  49. Complete the sentence about Jonas Basanavičius with the correct year: After Żeligowski's Mutiny in October ______, Vilnius became part of Poland and Lithuanian activities were censored and limited.
  50. Complete the sentence about Vincas Kudirka with the correct year: During his studies, he was a member of the revolutionary organization Great Proletariat, for which he was arrested and expelled from t…
  51. Complete the sentence about Vincas Kudirka with the correct year: On 5 July ______, a statue of Vincas Kudirka was unveiled beside the Gediminas Avenue, the main street of the capital Vilnius.
  52. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The situation changed only when Germany lost World War I in the fall of ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Act of Independence of Lithuania with the correct year: In November ______ the first Cabinet of Lithuania was formed, and the Council of Lithuania gained control over the t…
  54. Complete the sentence about Act of Independence of Lithuania with the correct year: The laconic Act is the legal basis for the existence of modern Lithuania, both during the interwar period and since…
  55. Complete the sentence about Act of Independence of Lithuania with the correct year: The Act itself was a key element in the foundation of Lithuania's re-establishment of independence in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Antanas Smetona with the correct year: During the interwar period, Smetona emerged as a prominent political figure, serving as the first President and later taking power in…
  57. Complete the sentence about Antanas Smetona with the correct year: Researcher Kazimieras Gasparavičius has traced Smetona's patrilineal ancestry to Laurentijus, who was born around ______ and lived ne…
  58. Complete the sentence about Antanas Smetona with the correct year: After graduation in ______, Smetona wanted to continue his education, but gymnasiums admitted pupils only up to the age of 12 and he…
  59. Complete the sentence about Klaipėda Revolt with the correct year: The League of Nations accepted the fait accompli and the Klaipėda Region was transferred as an autonomous territory to the Republic o…
  60. Complete the sentence about Klaipėda Revolt with the correct year: After prolonged negotiations, a formal international agreement, the Klaipėda Convention, was signed in May ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Klaipėda Revolt with the correct year: The region remained part of Lithuania until March ______ when it was transferred to Nazi Germany after a German ultimatum.
  62. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian–Soviet War with the correct year: By the end of December ______, Soviet forces reached Lithuanian borders.
  63. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian–Soviet War with the correct year: Largely unopposed, they occupied one town after another and by the end of January ______, they controlled about two thirds of t…
  64. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian–Soviet War with the correct year: By mid-June, the Lithuanians reached the Latvian border and cornered the Soviets among lakes and hills near Zarasai, where the…
  65. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian–Soviet War with the correct year: The Soviets and Lithuanians, separated by the Daugava River, maintained their fronts until the Battle of Daugavpils in January…
  66. Complete the sentence about Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with the correct year: Subsequently, rapprochement between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany began in early ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with the correct year: A week after signing the pact, on 1 September ______, Germany invaded Poland.
  68. Complete the sentence about Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with the correct year: In March ______, the Soviet Union annexed parts of Karelia, Salla and Kuusamo following the Winter War against Finland.
  69. Complete the sentence about Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with the correct year: Stalin's invasion of Bukovina in ______ violated the pact, since it went beyond the Soviet sphere of influence that had been…
  70. Complete the sentence about Soviet occupation of the Baltic states with the correct year: For a period of several years during World War II, Nazi Germany occupied the Baltic states after it invaded th…
  71. Complete the sentence about Soviet occupation of the Baltic states with the correct year: The three independent Baltic countries were annexed as constituent Republics of the Soviet Union in August ___…
  72. Complete the sentence about Soviet occupation of the Baltic states with the correct year: In July ______, the occupation of the Baltic states by Nazi Germany took place, just weeks after its invasion…
  73. Complete the sentence about Soviet occupation of the Baltic states with the correct year: The Baltic states regained de facto independence in ______ during the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
  74. Complete the sentence about Soviet occupation of the Baltic states with the correct year: Russia started to withdraw its troops from the Baltics starting with Lithuania in August ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Soviet occupation of the Baltic states with the correct year: The full withdrawal of troops deployed by Moscow ended in August ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Holocaust in Lithuania with the correct year: The occupying Nazi German administration fanned antisemitism by blaming the Soviet regime's annexation of Lithuania in June __…
  77. Complete the sentence about Forest Brothers with the correct year: The term Forest Brothers first came into use in the Baltic region in the ______ Russian Revolution.
  78. Complete the sentence about Forest Brothers with the correct year: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania gained their independence in ______ after the collapse of the Russian Empire.
  79. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Soviets invaded and occupied Lithuania by the end of ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian partisans with the correct year: Lithuania regained its independence in ______ after the collapse of the Russian Empire.
  81. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian partisans with the correct year: Subsequently, Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union in June ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about Sąjūdis with the correct year: On 21 June ______, the first massive gathering organised by Sąjūdis took place at Soviet Square near Soviet Palace.
  83. Complete the sentence about Vytautas Landsbergis with the correct year: In ______, he placed third in the Lithuanian chess championship, after Ratmir Kholmov and Vladas Mikėnas.
  84. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he became a professor at the Lithuanian Conservatory.
  85. Complete the sentence about Vytautas Landsbergis with the correct year: Landsbergis entered politics, in ______, as one of the founders of Sąjūdis, the Lithuanian pro-independence political movement.
  86. Complete the sentence about Vytautas Landsbergis with the correct year: In the ______ elections to the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union, Landsbergis was elected as one of the People's…
  87. Complete the sentence about Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania with the correct year: The act emphasized restoration and legal continuity of the interwar-period Lithuania, which was…
  88. Complete the sentence about Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania with the correct year: After the death of Joseph Stalin in ______, the Soviet Union adopted de-Stalinization policies…
  89. Complete the sentence about January Events with the correct year: The events took place between 11 and 13 January ______, after the restoration of independence by Lithuania.
  90. Complete the sentence about January Events with the correct year: The Baltic states, including Lithuania, were forcibly annexed by the Soviet Union in ______.
  91. Which place completes this sentence about History of Lithuania? During the Second Northern War, the Grand Duchy sought protection under the Swedish Empire through the Union of ______ in 1655.
  92. Which place completes this sentence about Klaipėda Revolt? The League of Nations accepted the fait accompli and the ______ Region was transferred as an autonomous territory to the Republic of Lithuani…
  93. Which place completes this sentence about Klaipėda Revolt? After prolonged negotiations, a formal international agreement, the ______ Convention, was signed in May 1924.
  94. Which place completes this sentence about Gitanas Nausėda? Nausėda was born on 19 May 1964 in the port city ______ on the Baltic coast.
  95. Complete the sentence about Perkūnas with the correct year: The Lithuanian folk music group Kūlgrinda released a ______ album titled Perkūno Giesmės, meaning "Hymns of Perkūnas".
  96. Complete the sentence about Battle of Saule with the correct year: The Sword-Brothers were established in ______ in Riga to conquer and convert pagan Baltic tribes to Christianity.
  97. Complete the sentence about Battle of Saule with the correct year: In the fall of ______, a party of crusaders from Holstein arrived in Riga and demanded to be led into a battle.
  98. Complete the sentence about Livonian Order with the correct year: The Livonian Order was an autonomous branch of the Teutonic Order, formed in ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Livonian Order with the correct year: In ______, the Teutonic Knights of Livonia signed the Treaty of Stensby with the Kingdom of Denmark.
  100. Complete the sentence about Livonian Order with the correct year: In ______, the Livonian Order tried to take the city of Novgorod.

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