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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Ukraine with the correct year: According to Jacek Staszewski, the treaty was not confirmed by a resolution of the Sejm until its ______ session.
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Ukraine with the correct year: During the Great Northern War, Hetman Ivan Mazepa allied with Charles XII of Sweden in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Kievan Rus' with the correct year: Donald Logan, "in 839, the Rus were Swedes; in ______ the Rus were Slavs".
  4. Complete the sentence about Yaroslav the Wise with the correct year: Yaroslav ruled the northern lands around Rostov before being transferred to Novgorod in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Yaroslav the Wise with the correct year: French historian Jean-Pierre Arrignon argues that he was indeed Anna's son, as this would explain his interference in Byzantine aff…
  6. Complete the sentence about Vladimir II Monomakh with the correct year: In ______ Monomakh defeated Boniak, a Cuman khan who led an invasion on Kievan Rus'.
  7. Complete the sentence about Vladimir II Monomakh with the correct year: In ______, Monomakh, alongside Sviatopolk, led an army at the Battle of the Salnitsa river, where they defeated a Cuman army.
  8. Complete the sentence about Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' with the correct year: The siege of Kiev in ______ by the Mongols is generally held to mark the end of the state of Kievan Rus', which had al…
  9. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Mongols captured Kiev in ______ and moved west into Hungary and Poland.
  10. Complete the sentence about Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' with the correct year: The Mongols had plans to conquer Eastern Europe long before Batu's campaign in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' with the correct year: The kurultai of ______, after which the invasion of Europe took place, repeated these goals.
  12. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia with the correct year: In ______ Daniel was crowned King of Ruthenia by the Pope in an attempt to create an anti-Mongol alliance.
  13. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia with the correct year: Polish conquest of the kingdom in ______ led to it being fully absorbed by Catholic Poland.
  14. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia with the correct year: Volhynia, which came under control of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania following a series of wars with Poland, formally becam…
  15. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia with the correct year: Roman Mstislavich, the great-great-grandson of Monomakh, inherited the throne of Volhynia in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Daniel of Galicia with the correct year: Daniel's father, Roman the Great, united the principalities of Galicia and Volhynia in ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Daniel of Galicia with the correct year: After his death in ______, the boyars of Galicia forced the four-year-old Daniel into exile with his mother Anna-Euphrosyne and you…
  18. Complete the sentence about Daniel of Galicia with the correct year: In ______, at the insistence of Leszek the White, Alexander of Belz was forced to return Volodymyr to Daniel.
  19. Complete the sentence about Daniel of Galicia with the correct year: In ______, Daniel renounced his claims to Galicia in favor of Mstislav the Bold, marrying his elder daughter Anna.
  20. Complete the sentence about Daniel of Galicia with the correct year: In ______ Daniel was invited to take the throne of Halych for the second time and defeated Hungarian troops which besieged the city…
  21. 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…
  22. 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 ______.
  23. 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…
  24. 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 ______.
  25. 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.
  26. 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…
  27. 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.
  28. 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 ______.
  29. Complete the sentence about Union of Brest with the correct year: Rome-oriented Christians and their Byzantium-oriented counterparts formally severed connections from ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Union of Brest with the correct year: In ______, both Hedeon Balaban and Mykhailo Kopystenskyi withdrew their signatures from the agreement.
  31. Complete the sentence about Union of Brest with the correct year: Canon Eustachy Wołłowicz, of Vilnius, read in Ruthenian and in Latin the letter of the Ruthenian episcopate to the Pope, dated 12 June…
  32. Complete the sentence about Union of Brest with the correct year: Another bull, Decet Romanum pontificem, dated 23 February ______, defined the rights of the Ruthenian episcopate and their relations i…
  33. Complete the sentence about Union of Brest with the correct year: In ______, the Metropolis of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia was erected under the care of the Patriarchate of Constantinople for disse…
  34. Complete the sentence about Cossack Hetmanate with the correct year: The founder of the Hetmanate, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, declared himself the ruler of the Ruthenian state to the Polish representative Ad…
  35. Complete the sentence about Bohdan Khmelnytsky with the correct year: Upon completion of his studies in ______, Khmelnytsky entered into service with the Cossacks.
  36. Complete the sentence about Khmelnytsky Uprising with the correct year: The uprising led to the eventual incorporation of eastern Ukraine into the Tsardom of Russia, initiated by the ______ Pereiaslav…
  37. Complete the sentence about Khmelnytsky Uprising with the correct year: All through the autumn of ______, Khmelnytsky travelled from one regiment to another and had numerous consultations with differe…
  38. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Pereyaslav with the correct year: In January ______, a major anti-Polish uprising led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky began in the Zaporizhia lands.
  39. Complete the sentence about Ivan Mazepa with the correct year: After the Swedes were defeated at the Battle of Poltava in ______, Mazepa went into exile in Moldavia and died there later that year.
  40. Complete the sentence about Ivan Mazepa with the correct year: In ______, Mazepa's coat of arms was confirmed by Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, who awarded the hetman with the title of Prince of the Ho…
  41. Complete the sentence about Ivan Mazepa with the correct year: In ______, Stepan Mazepa became involved with Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky, who pursued a pro-Polish policy.
  42. Complete the sentence about Ivan Mazepa with the correct year: In ______, he travelled to Warsaw to attend the sejm and placed his son Ivan in service at the royal court of John II Casimir Vasa.
  43. Complete the sentence about Ivan Mazepa with the correct year: From ______ the Polish king was sending him on numerous diplomatic missions to Ukraine.
  44. Complete the sentence about Ivan Mazepa with the correct year: Further on in his memoirs, Pasek recounts the story of under what circumstances Mazepa left Poland in ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Battle of Poltava with the correct year: The Battle of Poltava fought on 8 July ______, was the decisive and largest battle of the Great Northern War.
  46. Complete the sentence about Battle of Poltava with the correct year: Charles therefore chose to invade Russia in the autumn of ______ and march towards Moscow with a large Swedish army.
  47. Complete the sentence about Battle of Poltava with the correct year: The rest of the army was forced to surrender to the Russians at the village of Perevolochna on 11 July ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Pylyp Orlyk with the correct year: With Yavorsky's help, in ______ he was appointed secretary of the consistory of Kiev metropolis.
  49. Complete the sentence about Hetman with the correct year: From ______, the start of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's uprising, a hetman was the head of the whole Ukrainian State — Hetmanshchyna and heads of the C…
  50. Complete the sentence about Catherine the Great with the correct year: Peter became Emperor of Russia in ______, reigning for seven months before his deposition and possible assassination at the hands…
  51. Complete the sentence about Catherine the Great with the correct year: In ______, when Sophie was 10, she met her second cousin who would later become her husband and Peter III of Russia.
  52. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca with the correct year: In ______, faced with increased Russian hostility, Abdul Hamid I declared war on Russia again.
  53. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca with the correct year: Restrictions imposed by the ______ Treaty of Niš over Russian access to the Sea of Azov and fortifying the area were removed…
  54. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca with the correct year: After the Treaty of Karlowitz in ______, the Ottoman Empire ceased to be an aggressive power; it had terrified Christendom f…
  55. Complete the sentence about Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Empire with the correct year: The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, signed in ______, granted the Crimean Khanate nominal independence from the…
  56. Complete the sentence about Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Empire with the correct year: The Crimean Khanate was established in ______ when Tatar Khan Hacı Giray broke away from the Horde.
  57. Complete the sentence about Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Empire with the correct year: In July ______, the Russian army marched into Kaffa, and the Ottoman governor of Kaffa Eyalet was forced t…
  58. Complete the sentence about Crimean War with the correct year: After the Sublime Porte's refusal, Russian troops occupied the Danubian Principalities in July ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Crimean War with the correct year: In September ______, after extended preparations, allied forces landed in Crimea in an attempt to capture Russia's main naval base in the…
  60. Complete the sentence about Crimean War with the correct year: The Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont entered on the allies' side in ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Crimean War with the correct year: Sevastopol ultimately fell after a renewed French assault on the Malakoff redoubt in September ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Crimean War with the correct year: Diplomatically isolated and facing the prospect of invasion from the west if the war continued, Russia sued for peace in March ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Taras Shevchenko with the correct year: From ______, Shevchenko was sent to a school, where he was taught to read and write.
  64. Complete the sentence about Holodomor with the correct year: A joint statement to the United Nations signed by 25 countries in November ______ declared that 7 to 10 million people died.
  65. Complete the sentence about Holodomor with the correct year: Since ______, the Holodomor has been recognized as a genocide by Ukraine and 33 other UN member states, the European Parliament, and 35 of…
  66. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian People's Republic with the correct year: The republic formally declared its independence from Russia on 22 January ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian People's Republic with the correct year: After the collapse of the Ukrainian State, the Ukrainian People's Republic declared its unification with the West Ukraini…
  68. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian People's Republic with the correct year: The February Revolution in the Russian Empire, which took place on 8-12 March ______, ended in victory of the democratic…
  69. Complete the sentence about West Ukrainian People's Republic with the correct year: Until November 13, ______, the state was officially known as the Ukrainian State.
  70. Complete the sentence about West Ukrainian People's Republic with the correct year: According to the Austro-Hungarian census of ______, the territory claimed by the West Ukrainian People's Republic ha…
  71. Complete the sentence about West Ukrainian People's Republic with the correct year: The West Ukrainian People's Republic was proclaimed on 1 November ______.
  72. Complete the sentence about Mykhailo Hrushevsky with the correct year: Mykhailo Hrushevsky was born on 29 September ______ to a Ukrainian noble family in Chełm, in Congress Poland, an autonomous polit…
  73. Complete the sentence about Mykhailo Hrushevsky with the correct year: In ______ at the age of 14, Mykhailo was sent by his parents to Tiflis, where he attended a local school.
  74. Complete the sentence about Mykhailo Hrushevsky with the correct year: While still studying at the classical gymnasium in Tiflis, Hrushevsky started writing belles-lettres, and in ______ one of his st…
  75. Complete the sentence about Pavlo Skoropadskyi with the correct year: After his service in the Russo-Japanese War, he was promoted to the rank of colonel, later in command of the 20th Finnish Dragoon…
  76. Complete the sentence about Pavlo Skoropadskyi with the correct year: Skoropadsky would be promoted to major general and aide-de-camp of Nicholas II in ______.
  77. Complete the sentence about Pavlo Skoropadskyi with the correct year: After Petro's death in ______, Pavlo and Mykhailo were sent to study in Starodub, while the rest of the family moved to Moscow.
  78. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic with the correct year: Upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union in ______, Ukraine declared independence and became the present-day inde…
  79. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic with the correct year: After the Russian Revolution of ______, several factions sought to create an independent Ukrainian state, alterna…
  80. Complete the sentence about Soviet famine of 1932–1933 with the correct year: By ______, the Soviet Union had established a base of heavy industry, at the cost of millions of lives.
  81. Complete the sentence about Great Purge with the correct year: In ______, the NKVD under Genrikh Yagoda began the removal of the central party leadership, Old Bolsheviks, government officials, and reg…
  82. Complete the sentence about Great Purge with the correct year: Stalin reversed his stance on the purges in ______, criticizing the NKVD for carrying out mass executions and overseeing the execution of…
  83. Complete the sentence about Great Purge with the correct year: Trotsky survived the purge, but was assassinated in ______ by the NKVD in Mexico on orders from Stalin.
  84. Complete the sentence about Great Purge with the correct year: Joseph Stalin, the party's general secretary, triumphed over his opponents by ______ and gained control of the party.
  85. Complete the sentence about Great Purge with the correct year: The ______ Party Congress elected Kirov to the central committee with only three opposing votes against, the fewest of any candidate; Sta…
  86. Complete the sentence about Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with the correct year: Subsequently, rapprochement between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany began in early ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with the correct year: A week after signing the pact, on 1 September ______, Germany invaded Poland.
  88. 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.
  89. 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…
  90. Complete the sentence about Invasion of Poland with the correct year: On 30 January ______, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, under its leader Adolf Hitler, came to power in Germany.
  91. Complete the sentence about Yulia Tymoshenko with the correct year: Re-elected to Ukraine's parliament in ______, she led her party in opposition.
  92. Complete the sentence about Yulia Tymoshenko with the correct year: Tymoshenko was born Yulia Hrihyan on 27 November ______, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
  93. Complete the sentence about Yulia Tymoshenko with the correct year: In ______, Tymoshenko graduated from high school No. 75 in Dnipropetrovsk.
  94. Complete the sentence about Yulia Tymoshenko with the correct year: In ______, Tymoshenko was enrolled in the Automatization and Telemechanics Department of the Dnipropetrovsk Mining Institute.
  95. Complete the sentence about Euromaidan with the correct year: The demonstrations began on the night of 21 November ______, when protests erupted in the capital Kyiv.
  96. Complete the sentence about Revolution of Dignity with the correct year: Parliament then voted to remove President Viktor Yanukovych, return to the ______ Constitution of Ukraine, and call new electio…
  97. Complete the sentence about Revolution of Dignity with the correct year: Euromaidan soon developed into the largest democratic mass movement in Europe since ______.
  98. Complete the sentence about Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation with the correct year: Russia incorporated Crimea on 18 March ______ as the Republic of Crimea and federal city of Sevastopol…
  99. Complete the sentence about War in Donbas with the correct year: The war began in April ______, when Russian-backed paramilitaries began an uprising against the Ukrainian government, seized territory…
  100. Complete the sentence about War in Donbas with the correct year: In March ______, following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied Crimea.

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