History and Politics

History And Politics

324 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.

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  1. Complete the sentence about Albania–United States relations with the correct year: The United States supported Albania's current borders, and in December ______ Albania became a full member of the Lea…
  2. Complete the sentence about Albania–United States relations with the correct year: The United States officially established bilateral diplomatic relations with Albania in ______, with plans to give co…
  3. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Albania with the correct year: Albania is a sovereign country in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean that declared its independence on 28 November __…
  4. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Albania with the correct year: An Albanian-Turkish military cooperation agreement was signed on 29 July ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Economy of Albania with the correct year: Following the collapse of the communist regime in ______, Albania experienced a mass exodus of refugees to Italy and Greece.
  6. Complete the sentence about Armed Forces of Albania with the correct year: On 4 December ______, the Albanian Prime Minister, Ismail Qemali and his government, formed the Albanian National Army.
  7. Complete the sentence about Armed Forces of Albania with the correct year: On 7 April ______, Italian troops invaded the country, and captured it in six days after weak resistance by the overwhelmed A…
  8. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ the rank system was reestablished under President Ramiz Alia.
  9. Complete the sentence about Armed Forces of Albania with the correct year: As the communist regime collapsed in Albania during ______, there was a real fear that the armed forces might intervene to ha…
  10. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 11 December ______, Alia announced that the PPSh had given up its monopoly of power.
  11. Complete the sentence about Socialist Party of Albania with the correct year: The PPSh won the ______ Albanian Constitutional Assembly election, the first free elections held in the country in almost…
  12. Complete the sentence about Democratic Party of Albania with the correct year: The First Pluralist would be the first elections since ______ to allow more than one Party.
  13. Complete the sentence about Democratic Party of Albania with the correct year: The Ruling Labour Party of Albania during the ______ Elections had the biggest advantage during the election.
  14. Complete the sentence about Socialist Movement for Integration with the correct year: The party was mostly supported by the Albanian youth at the ______ elections.
  15. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 28 April ______ he was elected the 7th President of Albania and left the Party.
  16. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Independent Albania was proclaimed in Vlorë on 28 November ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Albanian Declaration of Independence with the correct year: The success of the Albanian Revolt of ______ sent a strong signal to the neighboring countries that the Ottoman…
  18. Complete the sentence about Albanian Declaration of Independence with the correct year: The Assembly of 40 delegates meeting in southern Albania in the city of Vlorë on 28 November ______, declared Al…
  19. Complete the sentence about Naim Frashëri with the correct year: After the death of their parents, the family moved to Ioannina in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Abdyl Frashëri with the correct year: Abdyl Frashëri was born in ______ in the village of Frashër in the Vilayet of Janina to a distinguished Muslim Albanian family of Bekt…
  21. Complete the sentence about Pashko Vasa with the correct year: In ______, Pashko Vasa worked in Varna on the Black Sea coast in the administration of the vilayet of Edirne with Ismail Qemali.
  22. Complete the sentence about Pashko Vasa with the correct year: Nevertheless, he remained in office until his death in Beirut after a long illness on 29 June ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Congress of Monastir with the correct year: Another agreement resulted in another congress in Ioannina on July 10, ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Kosovo War with the correct year: In June ______, the group claimed responsibility for acts of sabotage targeting Kosovo police stations, during the Kosovo Insurgency.
  25. Complete the sentence about Kosovo War with the correct year: The war ended with the Kumanovo Agreement, signed on 9 June ______, with Yugoslav and Serb forces agreeing to withdraw from Kosovo to make…
  26. Complete the sentence about Great Albania with the correct year: On 7 April ______, Italy's Benito Mussolini, after a prolonged interest and overarching sphere of influence during the interwar period…
  27. Complete the sentence about Mehmet Ali Pasha with the correct year: In ______, Ali waged war against the sultan, capturing Syria, crossing into Anatolia and directly threatening Constantinople, but th…
  28. Complete the sentence about Queen Geraldine of Albania with the correct year: After her husband died in Paris in ______, Geraldine took the title Queen Mother and asserted the rights of her son Leka…
  29. Complete the sentence about Queen Geraldine of Albania with the correct year: Geraldine was allowed to return to Albania in ______, and she died that year aged 87.
  30. Complete the sentence about Queen Geraldine of Albania with the correct year: In ______, they returned to the Kingdom of Hungary which was stable under Regent Miklós Horthy.
  31. Complete the sentence about Gjergj Fishta with the correct year: In ______, he was a member of the Albanian parliament and eventually became the deputy chairman.
  32. Complete the sentence about Gjergj Fishta with the correct year: Fishta was born in ______ as Zef Ndoka to a Catholic Albanian family in Fishtë, which is a village located in the Zadrima region.
  33. Complete the sentence about Gjergj Fishta with the correct year: At the expense of the parishioner, Zef went to the Franciscan school in Shkodër until ______, which is when Troshan's College began its…
  34. Complete the sentence about Gjergj Fishta with the correct year: Fishta was ordained as a priest in ______ and officially accepted into the Franciscan order under the name 'Gjergj Fishta'.
  35. Complete the sentence about Gjergj Fishta with the correct year: By ______, Fishta became the director of every Franciscan school in northern Albania, and he replaced Italian with Albanian as the lang…
  36. Complete the sentence about Gjergj Fishta with the correct year: In ______, Fishta founded the first Albanian public library in the city of Shkodër, alongside fellow Albanian activist Shtjefën Gjeçovi…
  37. Complete the sentence about Çamëria with the correct year: In the summer of ______, Nikephoros II Orsini, the last despot of Epirus of the Orsini dynasty, was defeated in battle against Albanian chief…
  38. Complete the sentence about Skanderbeg Museum with the correct year: The museum was built at the end of the 1970s and was inaugurated on 1 November ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Skanderbeg Museum with the correct year: The works for the construction of the museum began in September ______ and they were directed by Robert Kote.
  40. Complete the sentence about Skanderbeg Museum with the correct year: In March ______, the Ministry of Education and Culture set up two working groups for the preparation of the museum content model, p…
  41. Complete the sentence about Skanderbeg Museum with the correct year: The group of historians led by professor Kristo Frasheri and the group of painters led by Bashkim Ahmeti completed this design in t…
  42. Complete the sentence about Bektashi Order with the correct year: In ______, the Bektashi order was banned throughout the Ottoman Empire by Sultan Mahmud II for having close ties with the Janissary co…
  43. Complete the sentence about Islam in Albania with the correct year: Charles claimed rights in Albania, as Manfred's successor, since ______ when the Treaty of Viterbo was drawn up.
  44. Complete the sentence about Islam in Albania with the correct year: In ______, both Muslim and Christian contingents sailed across the Adriatic.
  45. Complete the sentence about Islam in Albania with the correct year: In April ______, a Muslim from Lucera named Leone was appointed captain of the Muslim forces in Durrës.
  46. Complete the sentence about Islam in Albania with the correct year: The Muslim knight Salem, a regular army officer, led 300 Lucerians - archers and lancers - to Vlora, in ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about Catholic Church in Albania with the correct year: In ______, we know that prior Arbanensis Andrea and episcopis Arbanensis Lazarus who were the Bishops of Arbanum participa…
  48. Complete the sentence about Catholic Church in Albania with the correct year: After some resistance from local officials, the bishopric of Arbanon was put under the direct dependence of the Pope, as d…
  49. Complete the sentence about Warsaw Pact with the correct year: The Warsaw Pact's largest military engagement was the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, one of its own member states, in August ___…
  50. Complete the sentence about Warsaw Pact with the correct year: East Germany withdrew from the pact following German reunification in ______.
  51. Complete the sentence about Warsaw Pact with the correct year: On 25 February ______, at a meeting in Hungary, the pact ceased to exist via joint declaration by the defence and foreign ministers of th…
  52. Complete the sentence about Warsaw Pact with the correct year: The USSR, fearing the restoration of German militarism in West Germany, had suggested in ______ that it join NATO, but this was rejected…
  53. Complete the sentence about Warsaw Pact with the correct year: In April ______, Adenauer made his first visit to the United States, meeting Nixon, Eisenhower, and Dulles.
  54. Complete the sentence about Operation Pelican with the correct year: The Berlin Airlift Squadron was formed at RAAF Richmond in August ______ from ten Douglas Dakota crews drawn from No. 36 and No. 38…
  55. Complete the sentence about Operation Pelican with the correct year: The Australian contribution to the airlift, from September ______, was designated Operation Pelican.
  56. Complete the sentence about Operation Pelican with the correct year: The first Australian flight into Berlin was on 15 September ______, by the unit's commanding officer, Squadron Leader Cyril Greenwo…
  57. Complete the sentence about Corfu Channel incident with the correct year: Because of the incidents, Britain in ______ broke off talks with Albania aimed at establishing diplomatic relations between th…
  58. Complete the sentence about Corfu Channel incident with the correct year: The mines were allegedly laid by Yugoslavian Navy minelayers Mljet and Meljine on Albanian request, around 20 October ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Operation Valuable with the correct year: British plans for the overthrow of Hoxha and the communist regime in Albania had existed since ______.
  60. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Tirana with the correct year: In May ______, Albania accepted the proposal of the Italians and the Albanian National Bank was founded.
  61. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Tirana with the correct year: On November 27, ______, Italy signed with Albania the Pakti i Parë i Tiranës, the Treaty of Peace and Security, in Albanian Pakti It…
  62. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Tirana with the correct year: On November 22, ______, the Pakti i Dytë i Tiranës was signed between Albania and Italy, with a duration validity of twenty years.
  63. Complete the sentence about Fan Noli with the correct year: A respected figure who remained critical of corruption and injustice in the Albanian government, Fan Noli was asked to lead the ______ June…
  64. Complete the sentence about Fan Noli with the correct year: Through his contacts with the Albanian expatriate movement, he became an ardent supporter of his country's nationalist movement and moved to…
  65. Complete the sentence about June Revolution with the correct year: The clique destroyed the next government, which was led by Ilias Vrioni, and Zog settled for a military command under Pandeli Evangje…
  66. Complete the sentence about Mehdi Frashëri with the correct year: Mehdi Frashëri was born on 28 February ______ in Frashër, Janina Vilayet, then Ottoman Empire.
  67. Complete the sentence about Mehdi Frashëri with the correct year: Frashëri studied in Konica and Monastir and graduated from the Mekteb-i Mülkiye in Istanbul in ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Mehdi Frashëri with the correct year: On May 17, ______, as a member of the International Commission of Control he signed the Protocol of Corfu.
  69. Complete the sentence about Hysni Kapo with the correct year: Hysni Kapo served in many ministerial positions and was a member of the Politburo of the Party of Labour of Albania from ______ to his dea…
  70. Complete the sentence about Hysni Kapo with the correct year: Hysni Kapo was born in Tërbaç, Vlorë District, southwestern Albania on March 4 or 3, ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Hysni Kapo with the correct year: In the Battle of Gjorm in January ______ he was the second-in-command of the LNÇ units after Mehmet Shehu.
  72. Complete the sentence about Hysni Kapo with the correct year: In the Battle of Drashovica in September ______ was the general commander of LNÇ battalions and was stationed in the hills opposite to the…
  73. Complete the sentence about Mehmet Shehu with the correct year: In ______, he joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.
  74. Complete the sentence about Mehmet Shehu with the correct year: According to official Albanian government sources, he killed himself on December 17, ______, after which his family was arrested.
  75. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Parliamentary elections were held in Albania on 23 June ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Albanian parliamentary election, 1992 with the correct year: Parliamentary elections were held in Albania on 22 March ______, with a second round of voting for eleven seats…
  77. Complete the sentence about Albania–North Macedonia relations with the correct year: Albania, through President Sali Berisha became one of the early states to recognise Macedonia in April ______.
  78. Complete the sentence about Albania–North Macedonia relations with the correct year: In February ______, an attempt was made to open an Albanian university in Macedonia and the move was halted by poli…
  79. Complete the sentence about Albania–North Macedonia relations with the correct year: Toward late ______, internal political issues restricted Albania and Macedonia from making attempts to further deve…
  80. Complete the sentence about Albania–Serbia relations with the correct year: Albania and Serbia maintain diplomatic relations established in ______.
  81. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Albanian People's Army assumed power in the country in ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about Albania–Serbia relations with the correct year: Democratic Federal Yugoslavia was the first country to recognize the new government of Albania in April ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Albania–Montenegro relations with the correct year: While Shkodër was returned to Albania in May ______, Montenegro was allowed to keep other territory conquered from Alban…
  84. Complete the sentence about Albania–Montenegro relations with the correct year: Following Montenegrin independence in ______, Albanian and Montenegrin relations were restored.
  85. Complete the sentence about Albania–Montenegro relations with the correct year: Albania officially recognized Montenegrin independence on 12 July, ______, a month and a half after independence was dec…
  86. Complete the sentence about Albania–Germany relations with the correct year: Shortly after, the new Albanian Principality was ruled by the German Prince Wilhelm zu Wied for six month in ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Albania–Germany relations with the correct year: On 9 September ______, Nazi Germany launched an invasion of Albania following the collapse of Mussolini's fascist Italian g…
  88. Complete the sentence about Albania–Germany relations with the correct year: On 6 July ______, the Wehrmacht massacred 107 Albanian civilians in the village of Borovë, near Korçë.
  89. Complete the sentence about Albania–United Kingdom relations with the correct year: Albania and the United Kingdom established diplomatic relations on 8 November ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Albania–United Kingdom relations with the correct year: The first minister, Sir Henry Eyres, presented his credentials in January ______.
  91. Complete the sentence about Albania–United Kingdom relations with the correct year: Relations were interrupted in ______ after the Italian invasion of Albania.
  92. Complete the sentence about Albania–Russia relations with the correct year: The establishment of diplomatic relations between Albania and Russia happened on April 7, ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about Albania–Russia relations with the correct year: Enver Hoxha flew in July ______ to Moscow to conclude a trade agreement with the Soviet Union and engage in further negotiat…
  94. Complete the sentence about Albania–Russia relations with the correct year: Hoxha expressed strong support for Stalin during the ______ Tito-Stalin split.
  95. Complete the sentence about Adriatic Charter with the correct year: The Adriatic Charter was signed on 2 May ______ in Tirana under the aegis of the United States.
  96. Complete the sentence about Western Balkans with the correct year: The Ottomans first mention it in a document dated from ______.
  97. Which place completes this sentence about Principality of Arbanon? In 1272 most of the territory of Arbanon, together with ______, became part of the Kingdom of Albania.
  98. Which place completes this sentence about Skanderbeg? During the Battle of Nish in 1443, he deserted the Ottomans and became the ruler of ______ and nearby areas extending from Petrelë to Modrič.
  99. Which place completes this sentence about Principality of Albania? Prince Wilhelm arrived in Albania at his provisional capital of ______ on March 7, 1914, along with the royal family.
  100. Which place completes this sentence about Congress of Lushnjë? Political ideas were concluded with the organization of the Congress of ______ on 25 December 1918 and the creation of the Provisional Go…

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