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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Romania with the correct year: The modern Romanian state was established in ______ through a personal union of the Danubian Principalities.
  2. Complete the sentence about Trajan's Column with the correct year: On December 4, ______, the top was crowned by Pope Sixtus V with a bronze figure of Saint Peter, which remains.
  3. Complete the sentence about Migration Period with the correct year: Germanic peoples moved out of southern Scandinavia and northern Germany to the adjacent lands between the Elbe and Oder after ______…
  4. Complete the sentence about Vlachs with the correct year: Vlachs were present in large numbers, on the Chalcidice peninsula around ______, according to monastic documents from Mount Athos.
  5. Complete the sentence about Voivodeship of Transylvania with the correct year: The voivodes were heads of Fehér County from ______, which may indicate that their position had its origin in the office…
  6. Complete the sentence about Basarab I of Wallachia with the correct year: A royal charter issued on 26 July ______ is the first document to reference Basarab.
  7. Complete the sentence about Basarab I of Wallachia with the correct year: Basarab became "disloyal to the Holy Crown of Hungary" in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Basarab I of Wallachia with the correct year: Basarab supported Michael Shishman of Bulgaria's attack against the Kingdom of Serbia, but their united armies were defeated i…
  9. Complete the sentence about Basarab I of Wallachia with the correct year: Basarab was the son of Thocomerius, according to a charter written by Charles I of Hungary in ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Basarab I of Wallachia with the correct year: Charles I of Hungary referred to him as "Basarab, our disloyal Vlach" in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Mircea the Elder with the correct year: Mircea the Elder is the first in the region to deal with slaves giving 300 gypsy dwellings to a monastery in ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Mircea the Elder with the correct year: Through the intermediary of Petru Mușat, the prince of Moldavia, he concluded a treaty of alliance with Władysław II Jagiełło, king…
  13. Complete the sentence about Mircea the Elder with the correct year: In ______, Mircea participated in an anti-Ottoman crusade started by Hungary's monarch.
  14. Complete the sentence about Vlad the Impaler with the correct year: Vlad and his younger brother, Radu, were held as hostages in the Ottoman Empire in ______ to secure their father's loyalty.
  15. Complete the sentence about Vlad the Impaler with the correct year: Vlad's eldest brother Mircea and their father were murdered after John Hunyadi, regent-governor of Hungary, invaded Wallachia in ___…
  16. Complete the sentence about Vlad the Impaler with the correct year: Hunyadi launched a military campaign against the Ottomans in the autumn of ______, and Vladislav accompanied him.
  17. Complete the sentence about Vlad the Impaler with the correct year: Relations between Hungary and Vladislav later deteriorated, and in ______ Vlad invaded Wallachia with Hungarian support.
  18. Complete the sentence about Vlad the Impaler with the correct year: In January ______, he attacked Ottoman territory, massacring tens of thousands of Turks and Muslim Bulgarians.
  19. Complete the sentence about Stephen the Great with the correct year: In ______, Stephen with his father, Bogdan II, repulsed the Polish invasion of Moldavia.
  20. Complete the sentence about Stephen the Great with the correct year: Following a period of internal strife, Stephen took the Moldavian throne in ______, after his victory at the Battle of Orbic, with…
  21. Complete the sentence about Stephen the Great with the correct year: Stephen attacked Polish territory and prevented Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland, from supporting Peter, but eventually acknowl…
  22. Complete the sentence about Stephen the Great with the correct year: Peter Aaron attacked Moldavia with Hungarian support in December ______, but he was defeated by Stephen and executed, alongside the…
  23. Complete the sentence about Stephen the Great with the correct year: Stephen eventually defeated a large Ottoman army at the Battle of Vaslui during their invasion in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Michael the Brave with the correct year: The war continued until a peace finally emerged in January ______, but this lasted for only a year and a half.
  25. Complete the sentence about Michael the Brave with the correct year: Peace was again reached in late ______, when Michael was unable to continue the war due to lack of support from his allies.
  26. Complete the sentence about Michael the Brave with the correct year: Still, in May ______ conflict did break out between Alexandru and Michael, who was forced to flee to Transylvania.
  27. Complete the sentence about Vasile Lupu with the correct year: Lupu had secured the Moldavian throne in ______ after a series of complicated intrigues and managed to hold it for twenty years.
  28. Complete the sentence about Vasile Lupu with the correct year: Lupu founded the Princely High School of Trei lerarhi Church in ______, which taught in Greek and Latin.
  29. Complete the sentence about Dimitrie Cantemir with the correct year: In ______, Constantin was named voivode of Moldavia by its Turkish overlords.
  30. Complete the sentence about Dimitrie Cantemir with the correct year: In ______, he was named a member of the Royal Academy of Berlin.
  31. Complete the sentence about Phanariotes with the correct year: Phanar was repopulated with Greeks from Mouchlion in the Peloponnese and, after ______, with citizens of the Empire of Trebizond.
  32. Complete the sentence about Phanariotes with the correct year: All formerly-independent Orthodox patriarchates, including the Serbian Patriarchate renewed in ______, came under the authority of the Gr…
  33. Complete the sentence about Phanariotes with the correct year: The wealth of the extensive Greek merchant class provided the material basis for the intellectual revival featured in Greek life for more…
  34. Complete the sentence about Wallachian uprising of 1821 with the correct year: The uprising of ______ was a social and political rebellion in Wallachia, which was at the time a tributary state of the…
  35. Complete the sentence about Wallachian uprising of 1821 with the correct year: The ascent of nationalist boyars was enhanced during the Russian occupation of ______, and cemented by a new constitution…
  36. Complete the sentence about Wallachian uprising of 1821 with the correct year: Although not at their highest historical level, Ottoman pressures had been steadily increasing since ca. ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Wallachian uprising of 1821 with the correct year: According to a report by the Ispravnic of Gorj County, in ______ migrant farmhands could barely cover their tax debt.
  38. Complete the sentence about Carol I of Romania with the correct year: In May ______, Romania was proclaimed an independent and sovereign nation.
  39. Complete the sentence about Carol I of Romania with the correct year: In ______ the king entered a top-secret military alliance with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, despite popular demands against Hungar…
  40. Complete the sentence about Romanian War of Independence with the correct year: Much like the states of the Holy Roman Empire after ______, Romania de facto acted as an independent principality.
  41. Complete the sentence about Romanian War of Independence with the correct year: Notably, when Romania adopted its first permanent constitution in ______ under Cuza's successor, Carol I, it did not eve…
  42. Complete the sentence about Romanian War of Independence with the correct year: After the declaration of war by Russia in ______, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich announced his intention of entering Rom…
  43. Complete the sentence about Romanian War of Independence with the correct year: On 19 January ______, the Ottoman Empire requested an armistice, which was accepted by Russia and Romania.
  44. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand I of Romania with the correct year: Ferdinand became King of Romania on 10 October ______, under the name Ferdinand I, following the death of his uncle, King Caro…
  45. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand I of Romania with the correct year: The name was later shortened simply to Hohenzollern after the extinction of the Hohenzollern-Hechingen branch in ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand I of Romania with the correct year: The princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen had ruled the principality until ______, when it was annexed to Prussia.
  47. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand I of Romania with the correct year: In ______, the Romanian parliament recognized Ferdinand as a prince of Romania.
  48. Complete the sentence about Carol II of Romania with the correct year: Due to his notorious extramarital affair with Elena Lupescu, Carol was forced to renounce his succession rights in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Carol II of Romania with the correct year: Michael, aged 5, inherited the throne on the death of King Ferdinand in ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Michael I of Romania with the correct year: In July ______, following the death of his grandfather Ferdinand I, Michael ascended the throne at age five, the youngest crowne…
  51. Complete the sentence about Michael I of Romania with the correct year: The council proved to be ineffective and, in ______, Carol returned to Romania and replaced his son as monarch, reigning as Caro…
  52. Complete the sentence about Michael I of Romania with the correct year: Carol II was forced to abdicate in ______, and Michael once again became king.
  53. Complete the sentence about Michael I of Romania with the correct year: In ______, Michael participated in a coup against Antonescu, appointed Constantin Sănătescu as his replacement, and subsequently…
  54. Complete the sentence about Michael I of Romania with the correct year: In March ______, political pressures forced Michael to appoint a pro-Soviet government headed by Petru Groza.
  55. Complete the sentence about Michael I of Romania with the correct year: In November ______, Michael attended the wedding of his cousins, the future Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince…
  56. Complete the sentence about Michael I of Romania with the correct year: Shortly thereafter, on the morning of 30 December ______, Groza met with Michael and compelled him to abdicate, while the monarc…
  57. Complete the sentence about Union of Transylvania with Romania with the correct year: Bessarabia and Bukovina had joined with the Kingdom of Romania earlier in ______.
  58. Complete the sentence about Union of Transylvania with Romania with the correct year: The lands named in the resolution of the Alba-Iulia National Assembly of the 18th of November ______ are and remai…
  59. Complete the sentence about Union of Transylvania with Romania with the correct year: The treaty is now commemorated in Romania since ______ as the Trianon Treaty Day.
  60. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Trianon with the correct year: As part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hungary had been involved in World War I since August ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Trianon with the correct year: In December ______, Budapest allowed Czechoslovak troops to occupy the country's north.
  62. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Trianon with the correct year: In April ______, Romania and Czechoslovakia moved their armies further into Hungary, provoking a renewal of hostilities.
  63. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Trianon with the correct year: In ______, one plebiscite was permitted settling a small territorial dispute between the First Austrian Republic and Kingdom of Hun…
  64. Complete the sentence about Romania in World War I with the correct year: As the Central Power war efforts collapsed, Romania re-entered the war on 10 November ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about Romania in World War I with the correct year: At the outbreak of hostilities, the Austro-Hungarian Empire invoked a casus foederis on Romania and Italy linked to the secret…
  66. Complete the sentence about Romania in World War I with the correct year: In August ______, Romania received an ultimatum to decide whether to join the Entente "now or never".
  67. Complete the sentence about Romania in World War I with the correct year: The Kingdom of Romania was ruled by kings of the House of Hohenzollern from ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Romania in World War II with the correct year: In the summer of ______, the USSR occupied Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, severely weakening Romania and diminishing its i…
  69. Complete the sentence about Romania in World War II with the correct year: Romania officially joined the Axis powers on 23 November ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Romania in World War II with the correct year: King Michael of Romania engineered the ______ Romanian coup d'état that deposed the Antonescu regime and put Romania on the s…
  71. Complete the sentence about Romania in World War II with the correct year: To contain Hungarian irredentism, Romania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia established the Little Entente in ______.
  72. Complete the sentence about Ion Antonescu with the correct year: After entering Romania into an alliance with Nazi Germany, he eliminated the Guard following their Legionary Rebellion of ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Iron Guard with the correct year: When Marshal Ion Antonescu came to power in September ______, he brought the Iron Guard into the government, creating the National Legiona…
  74. Complete the sentence about Iron Guard with the correct year: From June ______ onwards, the organization used the name "Totul pentru Țară", literally meaning "Everything for the Country", in electoral…
  75. Complete the sentence about Corneliu Zelea Codreanu with the correct year: In ______, under the National Legionary State proclaimed by the Iron Guard, his killing served as the basis for violent retri…
  76. Complete the sentence about Corneliu Zelea Codreanu with the correct year: Too young for conscription in ______, when Romania entered World War I on the Entente side, Codreanu nonetheless attempted to…
  77. Complete the sentence about Corneliu Zelea Codreanu with the correct year: In this context, the easternmost region of Bessarabia, which united with Romania in ______, was believed by Codreanu and othe…
  78. Complete the sentence about Second Vienna Award with the correct year: The next day, King Carol II of Romania suggested to Hitler that Germany dispatch a military mission to Romania and renew the alli…
  79. Complete the sentence about Soviet occupation of Romania with the correct year: The rest of the territory was occupied after Romania changed sides in World War II, as a result of the royal coup launch…
  80. Complete the sentence about Soviet occupation of Romania with the correct year: Romanian troops entered World War II in June ______ as part of Operation Barbarossa, under the German High Command.
  81. Complete the sentence about Soviet occupation of Romania with the correct year: Following the recapturing of the territory annexed by the Soviet Union in June ______, Romanian troops occupied Southern…
  82. Complete the sentence about Romanian People's Republic with the correct year: In December ______, King Michael I was forced to abdicate and the People's Republic of Romania was declared.
  83. Complete the sentence about Romanian People's Republic with the correct year: Ceaușescu's denunciation of the ______ Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and a brief relaxation in internal repression led…
  84. Complete the sentence about Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej with the correct year: Upon the outbreak of World War II in Europe, he was imprisoned by Ion Antonescu's regime in the Târgu Jiu internment camp, and…
  85. Complete the sentence about Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej with the correct year: Working at a factory in Comănești, he joined the workers' union and participated in the ______ Romanian general strike, during…
  86. Complete the sentence about Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej with the correct year: In ______, Gheorghiu became more politically active, joining the Communist Party of Romania.
  87. Complete the sentence about Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej with the correct year: On 15 August ______, Gheorghiu was accused of "communist agitation" and punitively transferred to Dej, a town in Transylvania…
  88. Complete the sentence about Nicolae Ceaușescu with the correct year: By the end of ______, mounting discontent over the state of the nation and Ceaușescu’s rule erupted into the Romanian revolution.
  89. Complete the sentence about Elena Ceaușescu with the correct year: Following the Romanian Revolution in ______, she was executed alongside her husband on 25 December.
  90. Complete the sentence about Elena Ceaușescu with the correct year: During a state visit to China in June ______, she took note of how Jiang Qing, Chairman Mao Zedong's wife, maintained a position of p…
  91. Complete the sentence about Elena Ceaușescu with the correct year: In July ______, after a mini-cultural revolution launched by her husband, she was elected a member of the Central Commission on Socio…
  92. Complete the sentence about Elena Ceaușescu with the correct year: Starting in July ______, Elena Ceaușescu started getting various offices at senior levels in the Romanian Communist Party.
  93. Complete the sentence about Romanian Communist Party with the correct year: From then, until its overthrow in the Romanian revolution in ______, it was effectively the only legal party in the country.
  94. Complete the sentence about Romanian Communist Party with the correct year: After being outlawed in ______, the PCR remained a minor, illegal grouping for much of the interwar period and was subject t…
  95. Complete the sentence about Romanian Communist Party with the correct year: With support from Soviet occupational forces, the PCR pressured King Michael I into abdicating, and it established the Roman…
  96. Complete the sentence about Romanian Communist Party with the correct year: In ______, the Communist Party absorbed the Romanian Social Democratic Party and attracted various new members.
  97. Complete the sentence about Securitate with the correct year: Following the Romanian Revolution in ______, the new authorities assigned the various intelligence tasks of the Securitate to new institut…
  98. Complete the sentence about Romanian Revolution with the correct year: Following World War II, Romania found itself inside the Soviet sphere of influence, with Communist rule officially declared in __…
  99. Complete the sentence about Ion Iliescu with the correct year: Beginning with ______, he was gradually marginalised by Nicolae Ceaușescu.
  100. Complete the sentence about Ion Iliescu with the correct year: In May ______, he became Romania's first freely elected head of state.

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