Romanian History and Politics

History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about Ion Iliescu with the correct year: In ______, during his presidency, Romania joined NATO and negotiations to join the EU intensified.
  2. Complete the sentence about Ion Iliescu with the correct year: Ion Iliescu was born on 3 March ______ in Oltenița, a city in the Muntenia region of the Kingdom of Romania.
  3. Complete the sentence about Emil Constantinescu with the correct year: Emil Constantinescu was born on 19 November ______, in Tighina, Ținutul Nistru, Kingdom of Romania, which today is de facto part…
  4. Complete the sentence about Emil Constantinescu with the correct year: The Constantinescu family took refuge in ______ in Brădetu village, Argeș County where Emil spent his childhood.
  5. Complete the sentence about Emil Constantinescu with the correct year: In ______, he married Nadia Ileana, a lawyer, who was his colleague at the Faculty of Law in Bucharest.
  6. Complete the sentence about Emil Constantinescu with the correct year: Since ______ onwards, he has been a professor of Mineralogy at the University of Bucharest.
  7. Complete the sentence about Traian Băsescu with the correct year: Following Theodor Stolojan's withdrawal from the presidential elections in ______, Băsescu entered the presidential race on behalf of…
  8. Complete the sentence about Traian Băsescu with the correct year: Băsescu graduated from the Naval Institute of Constanța in ______ and became a merchant marine deck officer at Navrom, the Romanian st…
  9. Complete the sentence about Traian Băsescu with the correct year: In ______, he was promoted to Captain of the oil tanker Biruința, the largest ship of the then Romanian commercial fleet.
  10. Complete the sentence about Traian Băsescu with the correct year: In ______, Băsescu moved to Belgium to head the Navrom Agency in Antwerp.
  11. Complete the sentence about Nicușor Dan with the correct year: Born in Făgăraș, Brașov County, Dan attended the Radu Negru High School in his native city, graduating in ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Petre Roman with the correct year: Although regarded as the first Romanian prime minister since ______ who was not a communist or communist sympathiser, he was a socialist.
  13. Complete the sentence about National Liberal Party with the correct year: Following an update to its statutes in June ______, the party's MEPs joined the EPP Group.
  14. Complete the sentence about Save Romania Union with the correct year: USR is, as of ______, the fourth-largest party in the Parliament of Romania, holding 40 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 19 in…
  15. Complete the sentence about Save Romania Union with the correct year: On 15 August ______, an online congress of USR and PLUS members approved the formal merger of the two parties with 84.65% support.
  16. Complete the sentence about Parliament of Romania with the correct year: Carol II abdicated in September ______, and the succeeding National Legionary State suspended the parliament.
  17. Complete the sentence about Parliament of Romania with the correct year: All these stipulations can be found in the country's new Constitution, approved by referendum in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Parliament of Romania with the correct year: Prior to the modifications of the Constitution in ______, the two houses had identical attributes.
  19. Complete the sentence about Senate of Romania with the correct year: On the initiative of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, a plebiscite in ______ enlarged the principle of national representation.
  20. Complete the sentence about Senate of Romania with the correct year: The ______ Constitution of Romania proclaimed constitutional monarchy as Romania's form of government, on the basis of national sov…
  21. Complete the sentence about Senate of Romania with the correct year: On 9 May ______, the Declaration of Romania's independence was read under the dome of the Romanian Parliament.
  22. Complete the sentence about Senate of Romania with the correct year: In February ______, amid the political crisis which soon led to the Second World War, King Carol II imposed a more authoritarian mo…
  23. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Under the Constitution of ______, Parliament lost some of its main powers.
  24. Complete the sentence about Senate of Romania with the correct year: The proportion of appointed and elected members was to be equal, while senators by right still had to meet the conditions set out i…
  25. Complete the sentence about Senate of Romania with the correct year: In September ______, after the abdication of King Carol, the National Legionary State suspended the parliament but itself lasted le…
  26. Complete the sentence about President of Romania with the correct year: The president is directly elected by a two-round system, and, following a modification to the Romanian Constitution in ______, s…
  27. Complete the sentence about President of Romania with the correct year: The office of president was created in ______ when communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu elevated the presidency of the State Counc…
  28. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Romania with the correct year: The title was officially changed to Prime Minister by the ______ Constitution of Romania during the communist regime.
  29. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Romania with the correct year: Originally styled President of the Council of Ministers, the office was first created in ______ during the reign of Prince…
  30. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Romania with the correct year: In ______, he was elected Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia in two separate elections, thus de facto uniting the t…
  31. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Romania with the correct year: The first constitution of the Romanian United Principalities was adopted 1 July ______.
  32. Complete the sentence about Romania and the European Union with the correct year: In ______, a treaty included Socialist Republic of Romania in the Community's Generalized System of Preferences.
  33. Complete the sentence about Romanian leu with the correct year: On 22 April ______, a bimetallic currency was adopted, with the leu equal to 5 grams of 83.5% silver or 0.29032 grams of gold.
  34. Complete the sentence about Romanian leu with the correct year: Before ______ the silver Russian ruble was valued so highly as to drive the native coins out of circulation.
  35. Complete the sentence about Romanian leu with the correct year: Consequently, in ______, Romania unilaterally joined the Latin Monetary Union and adopted a gold standard.
  36. Complete the sentence about Romanian leu with the correct year: During Romania's World War II alliance with Nazi Germany, the leu was pegged to the reichsmark at a rate of 49.50 lei to RM 1, falling t…
  37. Complete the sentence about Counties of Romania with the correct year: For most of the time since modern Romania was formed in ______, the administrative division system has been similar to that of th…
  38. Complete the sentence about Counties of Romania with the correct year: The system has since changed several times and the number of counties has varied over time, from the 71 județe that existed befor…
  39. Complete the sentence about Counties of Romania with the correct year: In ______, King Carol II modified the law on the administration of the Romanian territory according to the fascist model.
  40. Complete the sentence about Romanian Land Forces with the correct year: Since ______, full professionalization and a major equipment overhaul have transformed the nature of the Land Forces.
  41. Complete the sentence about Romanian Land Forces with the correct year: From August ______ until the end of the war, Romania fought against Germany under the control of the Soviet Union.
  42. Complete the sentence about Romanian Land Forces with the correct year: Following the Romanian Revolution of ______, due to shortage of funds, many units were disbanded and much equipment was phased o…
  43. Complete the sentence about Romanian Land Forces with the correct year: The modern Moldavian and Wallachian armies were formed in ______ following Regulamentul Organic.
  44. Complete the sentence about Flag of Romania with the correct year: Upon creating a "Grand Principality of Transylvania" on 2 November ______, Maria Theresa changed the Transylvanian coat of arms to a…
  45. Complete the sentence about Coat of arms of Romania with the correct year: The coat of arms of Romania was adopted in the Romanian Parliament on 10 September ______ as a representative coat of arms fo…
  46. Complete the sentence about Coat of arms of Romania with the correct year: The idea behind the design of the coat of arms of Romania dates from ______, when the two Romanian countries, Wallachia and M…
  47. Complete the sentence about Coat of arms of Romania with the correct year: The coat of arms remained unchanged until ______, after World War I, when Transylvania was united with the Kingdom of Romania…
  48. Complete the sentence with the correct year: After ______, the Communist authorities changed both the flag and the coat of arms.
  49. Complete the sentence about Coat of arms of Romania with the correct year: Immediately after the ______ Revolution, the idea came up of giving Romania a new, representative coat of arms.
  50. Complete the sentence about Coat of arms of Romania with the correct year: What emerged is the current design adopted by the two chambers of the Romanian Parliament in their joint session on September…
  51. Complete the sentence about Deșteaptă-te, române! with the correct year: Since then, this patriotic song has been sung during all major Romanian conflicts, including during the ______ anti-communist r…
  52. Complete the sentence about Deșteaptă-te, române! with the correct year: In ______ Andrei Mureșanu wrote the poem "Un răsunet" and asked Gheorghe Ucenescu, a Șcheii Brașovului Church singer, to find h…
  53. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Paris with the correct year: In ______, these prohibitions were renounced in the Treaty of London.
  54. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Paris with the correct year: When Alexander II took the crown of Russia in ______, he inherited all the problems of an empire stretching from parts of Finland to…
  55. Complete the sentence about Congress of Berlin with the correct year: Continuing nationalism in the Balkans was a major factor for the First World War in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Congress of Berlin with the correct year: The Congress was solicited by Russia's rivals, particularly Austria-Hungary and Britain, and was hosted in ______ by Bismarck.
  57. Complete the sentence about Second Balkan War with the correct year: Petersburg of 9 May ______, Bulgaria agreed to give up Silistra.
  58. Complete the sentence about Organic Regulations with the correct year: Comprising nine chapters, 160 articles and three annexes, the Basic Law was composed to implement Annex I of the ______ Sino-Brit…
  59. Complete the sentence about Organic Regulations with the correct year: Under the current Spanish Constitution of ______, an Organic Law has an intermediate status between that of an ordinary law and o…
  60. Complete the sentence about Moldavian Democratic Republic with the correct year: The Republic was proclaimed on 2/15 December ______, as a result of the Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Rus…
  61. Complete the sentence about Moldavian Democratic Republic with the correct year: On 1/14 January ______, the Front Section of the Rumcherod Bolsheviks entered Chișinău, the capital of the nascent repu…
  62. Complete the sentence about Moldavian Democratic Republic with the correct year: The Peasants' Congress, which took place in October ______, voted Mimi out and Ion Inculeț in as the new Commissar.
  63. Complete the sentence about Bessarabia with the correct year: In ______, the Soviet-Romanian border along the Prut was internationally recognised by the Treaty of Paris that formally ended hostilities…
  64. Complete the sentence about Bessarabia with the correct year: Part of the Gagauz-inhabited areas in southern Bessarabia was organized in ______ as an autonomous region within Moldova.
  65. Complete the sentence about Moldova with the correct year: In ______, southern Bessarabia was returned to Moldavia, which three years later united with Wallachia to form Romania.
  66. Complete the sentence about Moldova with the correct year: Still, Russian rule was restored over the entire region in ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Moldova with the correct year: During the ______ Russian Revolution, Bessarabia briefly became an autonomous state within the Russian Republic.
  68. Complete the sentence about Moldova with the correct year: In February ______, it declared independence and then integrated into Romania later that year following a vote of its assembly.
  69. Complete the sentence about Moldova with the correct year: On 27 August ______, as the dissolution of the Soviet Union was underway, the Moldavian SSR declared independence and took the name Moldova.
  70. Complete the sentence about Moldova with the correct year: The constitution of Moldova was adopted in ______, and the country became a parliamentary republic.
  71. Complete the sentence about Black Sea Fleet with the correct year: The fleet traces its history to its founding by Prince Potemkin on 13 May ______ as part of the Imperial Russian Navy.
  72. Complete the sentence about Romanian Orthodox Church with the correct year: In ______, the Orthodox churches in the principalities, the Metropolis of Ungro-Wallachia and the Metropolis of Moldavia, me…
  73. Complete the sentence about Romanian Orthodox Church with the correct year: The Statute on the organization of the Romanian Orthodox Church adopted by the Romanian parliament on May 6, ______, counted…
  74. Complete the sentence about Romanian Greek Catholic Church with the correct year: On December 16, ______, the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church was elevated to the rank of major archiepiscopal church.
  75. Complete the sentence about Romanian Academy with the correct year: Rosetti, the Academy was founded on April 1, ______, as Societatea Literară Română.
  76. Complete the sentence about Romanian Academy with the correct year: Established in ______, the Bibilioteca Academiei Române has a collection of over seven million books and collections of drawings, en…
  77. Complete the sentence about Piteşti experiment with the correct year: The first political prisoners it housed arrived in ______; these were high school students suspected of having taken part in the L…
  78. Complete the sentence about Piteşti experiment with the correct year: For a while after the proclamation of the Romanian People's Republic in December ______, it continued to house primarily those fou…
  79. Complete the sentence about Piteşti experiment with the correct year: Shortly after the establishment of the Securitate in August ______, the Pitești Prison became a detention center for university st…
  80. Complete the sentence about Piteşti experiment with the correct year: By April ______, the director of Pitești Prison was Alexandru Dumitrescu.
  81. Complete the sentence about Danube–Black Sea Canal with the correct year: In ______, Széchenyi got the approval of his and Ottoman governments to ensure the transport of goods and people without getti…
  82. Complete the sentence about Bucharest Metro with the correct year: The public transportation system in Bucharest has its origin in the 19th century, with the city introducing horse-drawn trams in ____…
  83. Complete the sentence about Rosia Montana with the correct year: The state-run gold mine closed in late ______ in advance of Romania's accession to the European Union.
  84. Complete the sentence about Roșia Montană Gold Corporation with the correct year: Frank Timiș, a Romanian-born Australian, founded a company, Gabriel Resources, in the Channel Island of Jersey in ____…
  85. Complete the sentence about Roșia Montană Gold Corporation with the correct year: The company was renamed "Roșia Montană Gold Corporation" in ______.
  86. Complete the sentence about Mineriad with the correct year: The Romanian miners of the Jiu Valley were called by the newly elected power to Bucharest to end the riots that broke up on 13 June ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Bucharest Stock Exchange with the correct year: The first stock exchange and commodity market in Romania began trading on 1 December ______, following a royal decree issued…
  88. Complete the sentence about Bucharest Stock Exchange with the correct year: After the communist regime took hold after World War II, the exchange was closed in ______ and all trading activities were s…
  89. Complete the sentence about Bucharest Stock Exchange with the correct year: Following the fall of communism and the transition to a market economy, the Bucharest Stock Exchange was re‑established as a…
  90. Complete the sentence about Romanian Intelligence Service with the correct year: Prior to ______, Romania's regional police forces were dependent on the local politics and had no strategic continuity.
  91. Complete the sentence about Romanian Intelligence Service with the correct year: In March ______, the Bureau became the Police and General Safety Directorate.
  92. Complete the sentence about Romanian Intelligence Service with the correct year: As of ______, the State of Romania included 3 new provinces which brought their own challenges to national security con…
  93. Complete the sentence about Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen with the correct year: The County of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was created in ______, upon the partition of the County of Hohenzollern, a fief of th…
  94. Complete the sentence about Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen with the correct year: The house remained on the throne until the end of the Romanian monarchy in ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen with the correct year: In ______ it lost its independence, and was incorporated into the Kingdom of Prussia as the Province of Hohenzollern.
  96. Complete the sentence about Queen Elisabeth of Romania with the correct year: When Romania became a kingdom in ______, Elisabeth became queen, and she was crowned together with Carol that same year.
  97. Complete the sentence about Queen Elisabeth of Romania with the correct year: Elisabeth first met Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen in Berlin in ______.
  98. Complete the sentence about Queen Elisabeth of Romania with the correct year: In ______, Karl, who was now Prince Carol of Romania, traveled to Germany in search of a suitable consort.
  99. Complete the sentence about Iuliu Maniu with the correct year: The PNȚ first came to power in November ______, after both King Ferdinand and Brătianu had died.
  100. Complete the sentence about Ion C. Brătianu with the correct year: Rosetti and other young politicians including his brother, in the ______ Wallachian Revolution, and acted as police prefect in the pr…

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