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  1. Complete the sentence about Duchy of Bohemia with the correct year: The Duchy of Bohemia was raised to a hereditary Kingdom of Bohemia, when Duke Ottokar I ensured his elevation by the German king Phi…
  2. Complete the sentence about Duchy of Bohemia with the correct year: The Přemyslids remained in power throughout the High Middle Ages, until the extinction of the male line with the death of King Wence…
  3. Complete the sentence about Přemyslid dynasty with the correct year: Vratislaus' son Soběslav I destroyed the Imperial army of King Lothar III in the Battle of Chlumec in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Přemyslid dynasty with the correct year: Ottokar I became the third King of Bohemia in the year ______ but was the first King of Bohemia to acquire a hereditary royal title…
  5. Complete the sentence about Ottokar II of Bohemia with the correct year: When his brother Vladislaus died in ______, Ottokar suddenly became the heir to the Bohemian throne.
  6. Complete the sentence about Ottokar II of Bohemia with the correct year: In ______, some discontented nobles who supported Emperor Frederick II enticed Ottokar into leading a rebellion against his fat…
  7. Complete the sentence about Ottokar II of Bohemia with the correct year: Přemysl Ottokar II held the title of King of Bohemia until November ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Ottokar II of Bohemia with the correct year: The last Babenberg duke, Frederick II, had been killed in ______ at the Battle of the Leitha River, sparking the War of the Bab…
  9. Complete the sentence with the correct year: After his opponent died, he was re-elected in ______ and crowned King of the Romans.
  10. Complete the sentence about Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: In ______, he was crowned King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor.
  11. Complete the sentence about Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: With his coronation as King of Burgundy at Arles in ______, he became the crowned ruler of all the kingdoms of the Hol…
  12. Complete the sentence about Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: The Golden Bull of ______ marked a structural change in the politics of the Holy Roman Empire.
  13. Complete the sentence about Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: In ______, Charles gained some experience of warfare with his father in Italy.
  14. Complete the sentence with the correct year: At the beginning of ______, he went to Lucca, Tuscany, to consolidate his rule there.
  15. Complete the sentence about Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: From ______, he administered the lands of the Bohemian Crown due to his father's frequent absence and deteriorating ey…
  16. Complete the sentence about Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia with the correct year: The city league soon attracted other members and until ______ acted as an autonomous state within the Holy Roman Empire.
  17. Complete the sentence about Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia with the correct year: Hence the young king was left without the resources his father had enjoyed, although he inherited the Duchy of Luxembourg fr…
  18. Complete the sentence about Jan Hus with the correct year: On 6 July ______, he was burned at the stake for heresy against the teachings of the Catholic Church.
  19. Complete the sentence about Hussite Wars with the correct year: At a late stage of the conflict, the Utraquists changed sides in ______ to fight alongside Roman Catholics and opposed the Taborites and…
  20. Complete the sentence about Hussite Wars with the correct year: The unrest began after proto-Protestant Christian reformer Jan Hus was executed by the Catholic Church in ______ for heresy.
  21. Complete the sentence about Hussite Wars with the correct year: The wars eventually ended in ______ when the moderate Utraquist faction of the Hussites defeated the radical Taborite faction.
  22. Complete the sentence about Hussite Wars with the correct year: In ______, in the course of the Western Schism, "Antipope" John XXIII proclaimed a "crusade" against King Ladislaus of Naples, the prote…
  23. Complete the sentence about Hussite Wars with the correct year: In ______, Sigismund of Hungary convened the Council of Constance to end the Schism and resolve other religious controversies.
  24. Complete the sentence about Hussite Wars with the correct year: Hus went to the Council, under a safe-conduct from Sigismund, but was imprisoned, tried, and executed on 6 July ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Jan Žižka with the correct year: A monument was erected on the Vítkov Hill in Prague to honor Jan Žižka and his victory on this hill in ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Jan Žižka with the correct year: In ______, Žižka is attested in Prague, in connection with the settlement of the inheritance on the Trocnov estate.
  27. Complete the sentence about Council of Constance with the correct year: Sigismund arrived on Christmas Eve ______ and exercised a profound and continuous influence on the course of the council in his…
  28. Complete the sentence about Council of Constance with the correct year: Partly in response to a fierce anonymous attack on his character from an Italian source, on 2 March ______ he promised to resign…
  29. Complete the sentence about Council of Constance with the correct year: The creation of a book on how to die was ordered by the council, and thus written in ______ under the title Ars moriendi.
  30. Complete the sentence about George of Poděbrady with the correct year: In ______, he marched this army, about 9000 strong, from Kutná Hora to Prague, and obtained possession of the capital almost with…
  31. Complete the sentence about George of Poděbrady with the correct year: In ______ the Emperor Frederick III, as guardian of the young king Ladislaus, entrusted Poděbrad with the administration of Bohem…
  32. Complete the sentence about George of Poděbrady with the correct year: In ______ King Ladislaus died suddenly and some voices accused George of having poisoned him.
  33. Complete the sentence about George of Poděbrady with the correct year: On 2 March ______ the estates of Bohemia unanimously chose George as king.
  34. Complete the sentence about Defenestration of Prague with the correct year: The first defenestration of Prague involved the killing of several members of the city council by a crowd of Czech Hussites…
  35. Complete the sentence about Defenestration of Prague with the correct year: On 6 October ______, three Prague municipalities signed a treaty on unity and common action, which brought the dominion of U…
  36. Complete the sentence about Defenestration of Prague with the correct year: The development then led to religious reconciliation and the declaration of equality of both churches at the Kutná Hora Asse…
  37. Complete the sentence about Defenestration of Prague with the correct year: The Kingdom of Bohemia since ______ had been governed by Habsburg kings, who did not force their Catholic religion on their…
  38. Complete the sentence about Battle of White Mountain with the correct year: The Battle of White Mountain was fought on 8 November ______ outside Prague in the early stages of the Thirty Years' War.
  39. Complete the sentence about Battle of White Mountain with the correct year: Particularly galling to Protestants were perceived violations of Emperor Rudolf II's ______ Letter of Majesty, which had ens…
  40. Complete the sentence about Battle of White Mountain with the correct year: In November ______, Elector Palatine Frederick V, who like many of the rebels was a Calvinist, was chosen as King of Bohemia…
  41. Complete the sentence about Battle of White Mountain with the correct year: In ______, now fully established as emperor, Ferdinand II set out to conquer Bohemia and make an example of the rebels.
  42. Complete the sentence about Thirty Years' War with the correct year: The war began in ______, when the Catholic Emperor Ferdinand II was replaced as king of Bohemia by the Protestant Frederick V of th…
  43. Complete the sentence about Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: Rudolf succeeded his father, Maximilian II, on 12 October ______.
  44. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The war lasted until ______ and is known as the "Long Turkish War".
  45. Complete the sentence about Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: In ______, Rudolf was forced by his other family members to cede control of Hungarian affairs to his younger brother, A…
  46. Complete the sentence about Habsburg Monarchy with the correct year: In ______, Maximilian I acquired the Netherlands through marriage.
  47. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: Maria Theresa started her 40-year reign when her father, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, died on 20 October ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: Charles VI paved the way for her accession with the Pragmatic Sanction of ______ and spent his entire reign securing it through interna…
  49. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: Little more than a year after her birth, Maria Theresa was joined by a sister, Maria Anna, and another one, named Maria Amalia, was bor…
  50. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: Leopold Clement of Lorraine was first considered to be the appropriate suitor, and he was supposed to visit Vienna and meet the Archduc…
  51. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: In ______, he betrothed her to Charles of Spain and her sister, Maria Anna, to Philip of Spain.
  52. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: The couple were married on 12 February ______ at the Augustinian Church in Vienna.
  53. Complete the sentence about Czech National Revival with the correct year: Following the Battle of White Mountain in ______, the Czech lands were subjected to systematic Germanisation policies spearhea…
  54. Complete the sentence about Czech National Revival with the correct year: In ______, Václav Hanka claimed to have discovered medieval Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora, which were decades la…
  55. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ it took over the publication of the journal of the Bohemian Museum.
  56. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Conflict over organized religion was pervasive in pre-______ Europe.
  57. Complete the sentence about Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas with the correct year: In ______, potato blight arrived in Belgium from North America, thus starting the Hungry Forties.
  58. Complete the sentence about Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas with the correct year: In ______ there had been an uprising of Polish nobility in Austrian Galicia, which was only countered when…
  59. Complete the sentence about Austria-Hungary with the correct year: Following the ______ reforms, the Austrian and Hungarian states were co-equal in power.
  60. Complete the sentence about Austria-Hungary with the correct year: Austria-Hungary was one of the Central Powers in World War I, which began with an Austro-Hungarian war declaration on the Kingdom of…
  61. Complete the sentence about Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk with the correct year: A cook at the estate, she met Masárik and they married on 15 August ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Edvard Beneš with the correct year: The second came about with the ______ Communist coup, which created a Communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
  63. Complete the sentence about Edvard Beneš with the correct year: Beneš then taught for three years at a business college, and after his ______ habilitation in philosophy, Beneš became a lecturer of soc…
  64. Complete the sentence about Milan Rastislav Štefánik with the correct year: In ______, he began studying construction engineering in Prague.
  65. Complete the sentence about Milan Rastislav Štefánik with the correct year: In ______, he transferred his studies to Charles University, where he attended lectures in astronomy, physics, optics, mathe…
  66. Complete the sentence about Milan Rastislav Štefánik with the correct year: In ______, he went to Paris to find a job in astronomy with a recommendation from a Czech professor who was known in Paris.
  67. Complete the sentence about Czechoslovak Legion with the correct year: On 5 August ______, the Russian Stavka authorized the formation of a battalion recruited from Czechs and Slovaks in Russia.
  68. Complete the sentence about Czechoslovak Legion with the correct year: In early ______, the Družina was reorganized as the 1st Czecho-Slovak Rifle Regiment.
  69. Complete the sentence about First Czechoslovak Republic with the correct year: After ______, Czechoslovakia remained the only functioning democracy in Central Europe, organized as a parliamentary repu…
  70. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The independence of Czechoslovakia was proclaimed on 28 October ______ in Prague.
  71. Complete the sentence about First Czechoslovak Republic with the correct year: The full boundaries of the country and the organization of its government was finally established in the Czechoslovak Con…
  72. Complete the sentence about First Czechoslovak Republic with the correct year: Tomáš Masaryk had been recognized by World War I Allies as the leader of the Provisional Czechoslovak Government, and in…
  73. Complete the sentence about Czechoslovakia with the correct year: Following the Munich Agreement in ______, the Sudetenland was annexed by Nazi Germany while the Second Czechoslovak Republic was forme…
  74. Complete the sentence about Czechoslovakia with the correct year: In ______, the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was proclaimed while the Slovak Republic was administered separately and Car…
  75. Complete the sentence about Czechoslovakia with the correct year: The Communist Party seized power in a coup in ______ and afterward, Czechoslovakia was part of the Eastern Bloc with a planned economy…
  76. Complete the sentence about Czechoslovakia with the correct year: A period of political liberalization in ______, the Prague Spring, ended when the Soviet Union, assisted by other Warsaw Pact countrie…
  77. Complete the sentence about Czechoslovakia with the correct year: On 31 December ______, Czechoslovakia split peacefully into the two sovereign states of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
  78. Complete the sentence about Munich Agreement with the correct year: The Munich Agreement was reached in Munich on 30 September ______, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy.
  79. Complete the sentence about Munich Agreement with the correct year: Germany had started a low-intensity undeclared war on Czechoslovakia on 17 September ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Munich Agreement with the correct year: In March ______, the First Slovak Republic, a German puppet state, proclaimed its independence.
  81. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The state's existence came to an end with the surrender of Germany to the Allies in May ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about Reinhard Heydrich with the correct year: Heydrich was mortally wounded in Prague on 27 May ______ as a result of Operation Anthropoid.
  83. Complete the sentence about Reinhard Heydrich with the correct year: Heydrich died from sepsis caused by his injuries on 4 June ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Operation Anthropoid with the correct year: The assassination attempt, code-named Operation Anthropoid, was carried out by resistance operatives Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš…
  85. Complete the sentence about Operation Anthropoid with the correct year: The German invasion of the Soviet Union in June ______ had inspired acts of anti-German sabotage by Czech communists, resulting…
  86. Complete the sentence about Lidice massacre with the correct year: From 27 September ______, SS-Obergruppenführer and General of Police Reinhard Heydrich had been acting as Reichsprotektor of the Nazi…
  87. Complete the sentence about Lidice massacre with the correct year: On the morning of 27 May ______, Heydrich was being driven from his country villa at Panenské Břežany to his office at Prague Castle.
  88. Complete the sentence about Lidice massacre with the correct year: Part of a team trained in Great Britain, the duo had parachuted into Bohemia in December ______ as part of Operation Anthropoid.
  89. Complete the sentence about Prague uprising with the correct year: In ______, the Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler, announced his intention to annex the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia with…
  90. Complete the sentence about Prague uprising with the correct year: In March ______, German forces invaded and occupied the remaining Czech territories, establishing the Protectorate of Bohemia and Mor…
  91. Complete the sentence about Prague uprising with the correct year: Despite losing much of their leadership to a March ______ purge by the Gestapo, Communist groups in Prague distributed propaganda lea…
  92. Complete the sentence about Prague Spring with the correct year: Novotný's attempt at restructuring the economy, the ______ New Economic Model, spurred increased demand for political reform as well.
  93. Complete the sentence about Alexander Dubček with the correct year: During the Velvet Revolution in ______, Dubček served as the Chairman of the federal Czechoslovak parliament and contended for the p…
  94. Complete the sentence about Alexander Dubček with the correct year: At the time of his death in an automobile crash in ______, Dubček remained an important political figure.
  95. Complete the sentence about Alexander Dubček with the correct year: In ______ the family moved to the Central Russian city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod.
  96. Complete the sentence about Alexander Dubček with the correct year: In ______, due to general orders by Stalin, the Dubčeks would have had to renounce their Czechoslovak citizenship in order to stay i…
  97. Complete the sentence about Charter 77 with the correct year: After the ______ Velvet Revolution, many of the members of the initiative played important roles in Czech and Slovak politics.
  98. Complete the sentence about Charter 77 with the correct year: Motivated in part by the arrest of members of the rock band the Plastic People of the Universe, the text of Charter 77 was prepared in ___…
  99. Complete the sentence about Charter 77 with the correct year: The first preparatory meeting took place on 10 December ______ in Jaroslav Kořán's apartment, and initial signatures were collected.
  100. Complete the sentence about Charter 77 with the correct year: The charter was published on 6 January ______, along with the names of the first 242 signatories, which represented various occupations, p…

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