Austrian History and Politics

History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about Austrian Civil War with the correct year: On 15 July ______, the day after the verdict, the SDAPÖ's leadership was not able to control the demonstrations of an outraged cro…
  2. Complete the sentence about Austrian Civil War with the correct year: On 4 March ______, Engelbert Dollfuss, the Christian Social chancellor, suspended the Austrian Parliament.
  3. Complete the sentence about Engelbert Dollfuss with the correct year: Having served as Minister for Forests and Agriculture, he ascended to Federal Chancellor in ______ in the midst of a crisis for th…
  4. Complete the sentence about Engelbert Dollfuss with the correct year: Suppressing the Socialist movement in the Austrian Civil War and later banning the Austrian Nazi Party, he cemented his rule throu…
  5. Complete the sentence about Austrofascism with the correct year: According to the Fatherland Front this form of government and society implemented the social teaching of Pope Pius XI's ______ encyclic…
  6. Complete the sentence about Austrofascism with the correct year: Chancellor Dollfuss was assassinated by the Nazis in July ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Austrofascism with the correct year: On 10 May ______, the Christian Social politician Engelbert Dollfuss was designated Chancellor of Austria by President Wilhelm Miklas.
  8. Complete the sentence about Kurt Schuschnigg with the correct year: During World War I, he was taken prisoner at the Italian Front and held captive until September ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about Kurt Schuschnigg with the correct year: After graduating in ______, he practiced as a lawyer in Innsbruck.
  10. Complete the sentence about Kurt Schuschnigg with the correct year: Schuschnigg first joined the right-wing Christian Social Party and in ______ was elected to the Nationalrat, then the youngest parli…
  11. Complete the sentence about Kurt Schuschnigg with the correct year: Suspicious of the paramilitary Heimwehr organisation, he established the Catholic Ostmärkische Sturmscharen forces in ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Kurt Schuschnigg with the correct year: In March ______, he and Chancellor Dollfuss took the occasion to dissolve the National Council parliament.
  13. Complete the sentence about Kurt Schuschnigg with the correct year: After the socialist February Uprising of ______, he had eight insurgents immediately executed, earning him the reputation of an "ass…
  14. Complete the sentence about Kurt Schuschnigg with the correct year: On 1 May ______, Dollfuss had erected the authoritarian Federal State of Austria.
  15. Complete the sentence about Anschluss with the correct year: On 30 January ______, Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany.
  16. Complete the sentence about Anschluss with the correct year: During an attempted coup in July ______, Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated by Austrian Nazis.
  17. Complete the sentence about Adolf Hitler with the correct year: Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September ______ under his leadership marked the outbreak of the Second World War.
  18. Complete the sentence about Adolf Hitler with the correct year: Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary and moved to Germany in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Adolf Hitler with the correct year: In ______, he attempted to seize governmental power in a failed coup in Munich and was sentenced to five years in prison, serving just o…
  20. Complete the sentence about Adolf Hitler with the correct year: Shortly thereafter, on 23 March, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act of ______, which ultimately began the Weimar Republic's transform…
  21. Complete the sentence about Adolf Hitler with the correct year: Upon Hindenburg's death on 2 August ______, Hitler replaced him as head of state and thereafter, Germany became a totalitarian dictators…
  22. Complete the sentence about Austria in World War II with the correct year: Following the Axis loss in Stalingrad in ______, the plans cooled off and were never executed.
  23. Complete the sentence about Austria in World War II with the correct year: Benito Mussolini boasted in May ______ to a group of Albanian fascists that he had achieved the Greater Albania long wanted b…
  24. Complete the sentence about Austria in World War II with the correct year: In October ______, small Albanian Communist groups established an Albanian Communist Party in Tirana of 130 members under the…
  25. Complete the sentence about Moscow Declaration with the correct year: The Moscow Declarations were four declarations signed during the Moscow Conference on October 30, ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Moscow Declaration with the correct year: The declarations are distinct from the communique that was issued following the Moscow Conference of ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Allied-occupied Austria with the correct year: The occupation ended when the Austrian State Treaty came into force on 27 July ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Allied-occupied Austria with the correct year: After the Anschluss in ______, Austria had generally been recognized as part of Nazi Germany.
  29. Complete the sentence about Allied-occupied Austria with the correct year: Austria, unlike Allied-occupied Germany, had its own government from ______ onwards.
  30. Complete the sentence about Allied-occupied Austria with the correct year: After Austrian promises of perpetual neutrality, Austria was accorded full independence on 15 May ______ and the last occupat…
  31. Complete the sentence about Austrian State Treaty with the correct year: The basis for the treaty was the Moscow Declaration of 30 October ______.
  32. Complete the sentence about Austrian State Treaty with the correct year: The climate for negotiations improved with Joseph Stalin's death in ______ and the warming of relations known as the Khrushchev…
  33. Complete the sentence about Leopold Figl with the correct year: As foreign minister, he subsequently took part in the negotiations on the Austrian State Treaty, which he signed in ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Leopold Figl with the correct year: After the Anschluss, the Nazis deported Figl to Dachau concentration camp in ______ due to his prominent position in the Ständestaat.
  35. Complete the sentence about Leopold Figl with the correct year: In October ______, he was rearrested and taken to Mauthausen concentration camp.
  36. Complete the sentence about Leopold Figl with the correct year: On 21 January ______, he was brought back to Vienna together with the later executed resistance fighter Heinrich Maier.
  37. Complete the sentence about Leopold Figl with the correct year: Figl was released on 6 April ______, when the Soviet Army took Vienna.
  38. Complete the sentence about Julius Raab with the correct year: Raab steered Allied-occupied Austria to independence, when he negotiated and signed the Austrian State Treaty in ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Julius Raab with the correct year: The death of his father and the beginning of his political career in the First Austrian Republic compelled Raab to drop out of the univer…
  40. Complete the sentence about Julius Raab with the correct year: In ______ he joined the Catholic Ostmärkische Sturmscharen forces led by his party fellows Kurt Schuschnigg and Leopold Figl.
  41. Complete the sentence about Julius Raab with the correct year: In ______ Raab joined the Fatherland's Front, the newly established right-wing coalition led by Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss.
  42. Complete the sentence about Bruno Kreisky with the correct year: Kreisky was born in the Margareten district of Vienna in ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Bruno Kreisky with the correct year: In ______, he joined the Young Socialist Workers against the wishes of his parents.
  44. Complete the sentence about Bruno Kreisky with the correct year: In ______, he began studying law at the University of Vienna at the advice of Otto Bauer, who urged him to study law rather than medici…
  45. Complete the sentence about Bruno Kreisky with the correct year: In ______, he left the Jewish religious community, becoming agnostic.
  46. Complete the sentence about Bruno Kreisky with the correct year: In ______, when the Socialist Party was banned by the Dollfuss dictatorship, he became active in underground political work.
  47. Complete the sentence about Bruno Kreisky with the correct year: In ______, he returned to Vienna, where Federal President Theodor Körner appointed him Assistant Chief of Staff and political adviser.
  48. Complete the sentence about Bruno Kreisky with the correct year: Kreisky was elected to the Austrian parliament, the Nationalrat, as a Socialist during the ______ election.
  49. Complete the sentence about Kurt Waldheim with the correct year: In March ______, the Schuschnigg government passed a law mandating a period of military service for prospective civil servants.
  50. Complete the sentence about Kurt Waldheim with the correct year: In the autumn of ______, now an army reservist, Waldheim entered the prestigious Consular Academy in Vienna on a scholarship, where he…
  51. Complete the sentence about Kurt Waldheim with the correct year: In March/April ______, Waldheim received his doctorate in law from the University of Vienna.
  52. Complete the sentence about Kurt Waldheim with the correct year: On 19 August ______, he married Elisabeth Ritschel in Vienna; their first daughter, Lieselotte, was born the following year.
  53. Complete the sentence about Kurt Waldheim with the correct year: In December, he was wounded but returned to service in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Franz Vranitzky with the correct year: In ______, Vranitzky married Christine Christen, with whom he fathered two children.
  55. Complete the sentence about Franz Vranitzky with the correct year: In ______, he received a doctorate in International business studies.
  56. Complete the sentence about Wolfgang Schüssel with the correct year: Born in Vienna, Schüssel attended that city's Schottengymnasium, a well known Roman Catholic gymnasium for boys, where he took his…
  57. Complete the sentence about Wolfgang Schüssel with the correct year: On 22 April ______, at the 30th Party Congress of the ÖVP, Schüssel staged a leadership coup and ousted Erhard Busek as chairman of…
  58. Complete the sentence about Wolfgang Schüssel with the correct year: Schüssel was sworn in on 4 February ______, with Haider's successor as FPÖ leader, Susanne Riess-Passer, as vice chancellor.
  59. Complete the sentence about Sebastian Kurz with the correct year: Kurz and his second cabinet were inaugurated in January ______.
  60. Complete the sentence about Alexander Van der Bellen with the correct year: On 4 December ______, he won the ensuing election, taking approximately 54% of the vote.
  61. Complete the sentence about Alexander Van der Bellen with the correct year: In ______, Van der Bellen's father Alexander married his Estonian mother, Alma Sieboldt in Kihelkonna, Saaremaa, Estonia.
  62. Complete the sentence about Alexander Van der Bellen with the correct year: In ______, Estonia was invaded, occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union.
  63. Complete the sentence about Karl Renner with the correct year: On 2 April ______, Renner appealed to Austrians to vote yes in the 10 April plebiscite that sought to legitimize the Anschluss.
  64. Complete the sentence about Heinz Fischer with the correct year: Fischer was born in Graz, Styria, which had recently become part of Nazi Germany, following Germany's annexation of Austria in March __…
  65. Complete the sentence about Thomas Klestil with the correct year: In ______, he established the Austrian consulate-general in Los Angeles, where he befriended Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  66. Complete the sentence about Thomas Klestil with the correct year: After being nominated by the conservative Austrian People's Party to run for president, he succeeded Kurt Waldheim on 8 July ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Thomas Klestil with the correct year: The couple separated in ______, when Klestil made public that he had a love affair with diplomat Margot Löffler, twelve years his juni…
  68. Complete the sentence about Thomas Klestil with the correct year: The couple divorced in September ______, and Klestil married Löffler three months later.
  69. Complete the sentence about Social Democratic Party of Austria with the correct year: The party was banned in ______ following the Austrian Civil War, and was suppressed throughout Austrofascism and t…
  70. Complete the sentence about Freedom Party of Austria with the correct year: Jörg Haider became leader of the party in ______, after which it began an ideological turn towards right-wing populism.
  71. Complete the sentence about Freedom Party of Austria with the correct year: Heinz-Christian Strache then became leader, and the party gradually regained its popularity, peaking at 26.0% in the ______…
  72. Complete the sentence about Austrian Greens with the correct year: Another major event in the Austrian environmental movement were the sit-in protests in ______ which prevented the Danube power plant…
  73. Complete the sentence about Austrian Greens with the correct year: The VGÖ and ALÖ contested the ______ Austrian legislative election, scoring 1.9 and 1.4 percent of the vote each but failing to win a…
  74. Complete the sentence about Austrian Greens with the correct year: The joint lists enjoyed success in Voralberg, achieving 13 percent and four seats in ______, and Styria, where they won 3.7 percent o…
  75. Complete the sentence about Austrian Greens with the correct year: In the ______ parliamentary elections the Green Party started off with 4.82% of all votes cast and entered parliament with eight Nati…
  76. Complete the sentence about Austrian Greens with the correct year: In the early elections to National Council in ______, the Green Party nationwide received 9.47% of votes, and won 17 mandates to the…
  77. Complete the sentence about Jörg Haider with the correct year: Haider died in a car accident shortly after leading the BZÖ in the ______ Austrian parliamentary elections.
  78. Complete the sentence about Jörg Haider with the correct year: Robert Haider joined the DNSAP in ______ as a fifteen-year-old boy, four years before Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.
  79. Complete the sentence about Jörg Haider with the correct year: In ______, Robert Haider moved to Bavaria but returned to Austria the following year after the failed Nazi attempt to overthrow the Austr…
  80. Complete the sentence about Jörg Haider with the correct year: From ______ on, he fought as a junior officer on the Western and Eastern Fronts in Europe during the Second World War.
  81. Complete the sentence about Jörg Haider with the correct year: Haider was born in the Upper Austrian town of Bad Goisern in ______, a time when his parents' finances were rather moderate, and his elde…
  82. Complete the sentence about Jörg Haider with the correct year: After his discharge in ______, he moved to Vienna and began studying Law and Political Science at the University of Vienna.
  83. Complete the sentence about Heinz-Christian Strache with the correct year: Strache, who is by profession a dental technician, has been active in the politics of Vienna since ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Federal Council with the correct year: Since its inauguration on 10 November ______, the deputies of Bundesrat have never achieved the status of a counterbalance in relatio…
  85. Complete the sentence about Federal Council with the correct year: In February ______, the Federal Council prevented a bill from being passed for the first time in its history.
  86. Complete the sentence about President of Austria with the correct year: When Nazi Germany annexed Austria in ______, the presidency was completely abolished.
  87. Complete the sentence about President of Austria with the correct year: Following the liberation of Austria by the allied forces in ______, the republican Constitution was restored and so was the offi…
  88. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Austria with the correct year: The constitution was drafted by a constitutional committee, which was established by the Austrian Parliament in ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Austria with the correct year: The committee's draft was debated and amended by the Parliament, and the final text was adopted on October 1, ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Austria with the correct year: The Austrofascist constitution was in force until Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in ______, ceasing to exist as a sovere…
  91. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Austria with the correct year: The ______ Austrian State Treaty ended the four-power occupation and recognized Austria as an independent and sovereign…
  92. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Austria with the correct year: Discussion of possible Austrian NATO membership intensified during ______. ÖVP and Team Stronach aim at moving closer to…
  93. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Austria with the correct year: Sanctions were lifted in September ______ after a three-member panel assessed human rights and political life in Austria…
  94. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Austria with the correct year: In November ______, the United States and Austria normalized their relations.
  95. Complete the sentence about Austrian neutrality with the correct year: Since ______, neutrality has become a deeply ingrained element of Austrian identity.
  96. Complete the sentence about Austrian neutrality with the correct year: In ______, prior to joining the European Union, Austria held a referendum on whether to approve constitutional amendments, allowi…
  97. Complete the sentence about Austrian Armed Forces with the correct year: In ______, Austria issued its Declaration of Neutrality, meaning that it would never join a military alliance.
  98. Complete the sentence about Austrian Armed Forces with the correct year: In ______ the Austrian Armed Forces enacted its new concept of Raumverteidigung.
  99. Complete the sentence about Politics of Austria with the correct year: Following the defeat of the German Reich in ______ Austria resumed its republican government, after it fully regained its indepen…
  100. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The ______ Congress of Vienna saw most of these areas lose their autonomy.

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