Moroccan History and Politics

History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about Moroccan Sahara with the correct year: Subsequently, Morocco and Mauritania signed the Western Sahara partition agreement on April 14, ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about Moroccan Sahara with the correct year: Since a United Nations-brokered ceasefire agreement in ______, approximately two-thirds of the territory has been occupied by Morocco…
  3. Complete the sentence about Algeria–Morocco border with the correct year: France sought to rectify this, and as a result a border was delimited from the Mediterranean south to Teniet el-Sassi via the…
  4. Complete the sentence about Morocco–Spain relations with the correct year: The Almohad dynasty had conquered Marrakesh in ______ and had taken over the Almoravids in Al-Andalus at the same time.
  5. Complete the sentence about Morocco–Spain relations with the correct year: The last of the Muslim territories in the Iberian peninsula was the Nasrid kingdom of Granada, which surrendered to the Catho…
  6. Complete the sentence about Morocco–Spain relations with the correct year: In ______ it was seized by the troops of the Alaouite sultan Ismail Ibn Sharif.
  7. Complete the sentence about Morocco–France relations with the correct year: In ______, the French adventurer Jean de Béthencourt left La Rochelle and sailed along the coast of Morocco to conquer the C…
  8. Complete the sentence about Morocco–France relations with the correct year: In ______, Francis I sent colonel Pierre de Piton as ambassador to Morocco.
  9. Complete the sentence about Morocco–France relations with the correct year: France started to send ships to Morocco in ______, under the rule of Henry II, son of Francis I.
  10. Complete the sentence about Morocco–France relations with the correct year: France, under Henry III, established a Consul in Fes, Morocco, as early as ______, in the person of Guillaume Bérard, and wa…
  11. Complete the sentence about Morocco–United States relations with the correct year: In ______, Morocco sought to change its trade relationship with the nascent United States.
  12. Complete the sentence about Morocco–United States relations with the correct year: Finally, Thomas Barclay, the American consul in France, arrived in Morocco in ______.
  13. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The main legal ties between Morocco and the EU are set by the ______ Association Agreement.
  14. Complete the sentence about Morocco–European Union relations with the correct year: Diplomatic relations between Morocco and the European Union date back to ______, when a commercial agreement was con…
  15. Complete the sentence about Morocco–European Union relations with the correct year: The beginning of King Mohammed VI's reign in July ______ marked a major shift towards more cooperation, comprehensio…
  16. Complete the sentence about Morocco–European Union relations with the correct year: Since ______ Morocco and the EU have signed many bilateral agreements.
  17. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The bloc was launched on 9 July ______ in Durban, South Africa.
  18. Complete the sentence about African Union with the correct year: The historical foundations of the African Union originated in the First Congress of Independent African States, held in Accra, Ghana fr…
  19. Complete the sentence about Arab League with the correct year: The Arab League was formed in Cairo on 22 March ______, initially with seven members: Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Sy…
  20. Complete the sentence about Arab League with the correct year: Furthermore, the signing of an agreement on Joint Defence and Economic Cooperation on 13 April ______ committed the signatories to coordi…
  21. Complete the sentence about Union for the Mediterranean with the correct year: The Agadir Agreement of ______ is seen as its first building block.
  22. Complete the sentence about Union for the Mediterranean with the correct year: Albania and Mauritania joined the Barcelona Process in ______, raising the number of participants to 39.
  23. Complete the sentence about Maghreb Union with the correct year: No high-level meetings have taken place since 3 July ______, and commentators regard the Union as largely dormant.
  24. Complete the sentence about Maghreb Union with the correct year: The idea for an economic union of the Maghreb began with the independence of Tunisia and Morocco in ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Maghreb Union with the correct year: The Union was established on 17 February ______ when the treaty was signed by the member states in Marrakech.
  26. Complete the sentence about Maghreb Union with the correct year: During the 16th session of the AMU Foreign Ministers, held on 12 November ______ in Algiers, Egypt applied to join the AMU grouping.
  27. Complete the sentence about Maghreb Union with the correct year: For example, in ______, Algeria decided to transfer the presidency of the AMU to Libya.
  28. Complete the sentence about Maghreb Union with the correct year: The latest top-level conference, in mid-______, was derailed by Morocco's refusal to meet, due to Algeria's vocal support for Sahrawi i…
  29. Complete the sentence about Organisation of Islamic Cooperation with the correct year: On 25 September ______, representatives of 24 Muslim majority countries met in Rabat, Morocco.
  30. Complete the sentence about Organisation of Islamic Cooperation with the correct year: In March ______, the First Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
  31. Complete the sentence about Organisation of Islamic Cooperation with the correct year: In ______, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference was founded.
  32. Complete the sentence about Casablanca Conference with the correct year: In a February 12, ______ radio address, Roosevelt explained what he meant by unconditional surrender: "we mean no harm to the c…
  33. Complete the sentence about Casablanca Conference with the correct year: Roosevelt eventually recognized de Gaulle as the head of the Free French in October ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Casablanca Conference with the correct year: Roosevelt presented the results of the conference to the American people in a radio address on February 12, ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Operation Torch with the correct year: When the United States entered the Second World War on December 7, ______, British and Americans met at the Arcadia Conference in Was…
  36. Complete the sentence about Operation Torch with the correct year: But with British forces advancing from Egypt, this would allow the Allies to carry out a pincer operation against Axis forces in Nort…
  37. Complete the sentence about Moroccan Americans with the correct year: After Moroccan independence in ______, many of their best young researchers left to study at American universities, joining scient…
  38. Complete the sentence about Abdelaziz of Morocco with the correct year: Shortly before his death in ______ Hassan I designated Moulay Abdelaziz his heir, despite his young age.
  39. Complete the sentence about Abdelaziz of Morocco with the correct year: On his death in ______ the regency ended, and Abdelaziz took the reins of government into his own hands.
  40. Complete the sentence about Abdelaziz of Morocco with the correct year: Subsequently, in ______, France began to expand westwards towards Bechar and Tindouf, defeating the Moroccan forces in the Battl…
  41. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In February ______, Abd al-Hafid was proclaimed the Sultan of Fez.
  42. Complete the sentence about Abdelhafid of Morocco with the correct year: In ______, Abd al-Hafid became the recognized leader of Morocco.
  43. Complete the sentence about Abdelhafid of Morocco with the correct year: Writing contemporaneously about his rule in ______, George Frederick Andrews says that Abd al-Hafid "must play a very shrewd ga…
  44. Complete the sentence about Abdelhafid of Morocco with the correct year: In September ______, a German consul arrived in the capital of Morocco which led to a French response.
  45. Complete the sentence about Allal al-Fassi with the correct year: After riots broke out in ______, al-Fassi was exiled to Gabon for 10 years.
  46. Complete the sentence about Allal al-Fassi with the correct year: Beginning in ______, he studied at the University of al-Qarawiyyin where he received a purely Arab education.
  47. Complete the sentence about Allal al-Fassi with the correct year: According to al-Fassi, he became politically conscious in ______ when the French authorities attempted to appropriate water from the O…
  48. Complete the sentence about Allal al-Fassi with the correct year: When he enrolled at Qarawiyyin University, he associated with older students who had begun their nationalist activities in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Mehdi Ben Barka with the correct year: A vocal opponent of both French imperialism and King Hassan II, he "disappeared" in Paris in ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Mehdi Ben Barka with the correct year: According to Mohammed Lahbabi of the USFP, Mehdi Ben Barka prepared the Tangier Speech delivered by Sultan Mohammad V on April 10, __…
  51. Complete the sentence about Driss Basri with the correct year: In ______, he censored Mohamed Choukri's autobiography, For Bread Alone.
  52. Complete the sentence about Driss Basri with the correct year: Basri was then appointed as Secretary of State for Interior Affairs in ______, becoming Ahmed Dlimi's right-hand man.
  53. Complete the sentence about Perejil Island crisis with the correct year: On the morning of 18 July ______, Spain launched Operation Romeo-Sierra to remove the Moroccan soldiers.
  54. Complete the sentence about Berber languages with the correct year: In ______, the first census after Moroccan independence was held.
  55. Complete the sentence about Moroccan Jews with the correct year: The Alliance Israélite Universelle opened its first school in Tetuan in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Chleuh with the correct year: After ______, Morocco was ruled by a succession of Muslim dynasties founded by Berber tribes.
  57. Complete the sentence about Chleuh with the correct year: In ______, a sharifan family from the east assumed control and established the incumbent Alawite dynasty.
  58. Complete the sentence about Riffians with the correct year: In the ______ Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica Leo Africanus, lists 'er Rif' as one of the regions of the Kingdom of Fez.
  59. Complete the sentence about Berbers with the correct year: From about ______ BC, Berber languages spread westward from the Nile Valley across the northern Sahara into the Maghreb.
  60. Complete the sentence about Moroccan Jewish Museum with the correct year: Established in ______, it is the only museum devoted to Judaism in the Arab world.
  61. Complete the sentence about Moroccan Jewish Museum with the correct year: After its restoration, the building was rededicated as museum by King Mohammed VI of Morocco on December 20, ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Moroccan Jewish Museum with the correct year: One of the most notable items is the preamble of Morocco's updated ______ constitution, which cites Hebraic influences as a pi…
  63. Complete the sentence about Mellah with the correct year: In ______ the Marinid sultan Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-Haqq founded Fes el-Jdid, a new fortified administrative city to house their troops an…
  64. Complete the sentence about Al-Andalus with the correct year: The name refers to the different Muslim states that controlled these territories at various times between 711 and ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about Al-Andalus with the correct year: After the Christian capture of Toledo in ______, the Almoravid empire intervened and repelled attacks on the region, then brought al-Andal…
  66. Complete the sentence about Moriscos with the correct year: The last mass prosecution against Moriscos for crypto-Islamic practices occurred in Granada in ______, with most receiving relatively light…
  67. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Tangier with the correct year: A month later, the Treaty of Tangier was signed on 10 September ______, ending the war, in which Morocco recognised Algeria as a Fr…
  68. Complete the sentence about Tangier International Zone with the correct year: By ______, Denmark, France, Portugal, Sardinia, Spain, Sweden, Tuscany, the United Kingdom, and the United States all had…
  69. Complete the sentence about Tangier International Zone with the correct year: The foreign powers in Tangier soon started developing joint projects, starting with matters of quarantine and public healt…
  70. Complete the sentence about Tangier International Zone with the correct year: In ______, Greek-American community leader Ion Hanford Perdicaris advocated a special status for Tangier as a neutral free…
  71. Complete the sentence about Tangier International Zone with the correct year: In ______, Tangier was chosen as location of the French-led Moroccan Debt Administration.
  72. Complete the sentence about Tangier Crisis with the correct year: On 31 March ______ Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany arrived at Tangier, Morocco and conferred with representatives of Sultan Abdelaziz of…
  73. Complete the sentence about Tangier Crisis with the correct year: The Algeciras Conference, lasting from 16 January to 7 April ______, was called to settle the dispute.
  74. Complete the sentence about Tangier Crisis with the correct year: The Germans decided to accept a face-saving compromise agreement that was signed on 31 March ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Hirak Rif with the correct year: After a couple of years, the newly installed republic was crushed by French and British forces, and Abd al-Karim surrendered on May 26, ___…
  76. Complete the sentence about Commander of the Faithful with the correct year: The Afghan ruler Dost Mohammad Khan likewise used it when he proclaimed a jihād against the Sikh Empire in ______.
  77. Complete the sentence about Commander of the Faithful with the correct year: In ______, the title was adopted by the Taliban leader Muhammad Umar.
  78. Which place completes this sentence about History of Morocco? In 2026, researchers described hominin fossils from the Grotte à Hominidés at Thomas Quarry I in ______, securely dated to approximately 7…
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Mauretania Tingitana? Some historians, like Leo Africanus, believe the Roman frontier reached the area of ______, founded by the Romans as a port named "Anfa"…
  80. Which place completes this sentence about Hassan II of Morocco? Hassan was born in ______ during the reign of his father, Mohammed V, who would later lead Morocco to independence from French and Spani…
  81. Which place completes the sentence? The ______ Agreement of 2004 is seen as its first building block.
  82. Complete the sentence about Abd al-Mu'min with the correct year: Under him, the Almohads swept down from the mountains, eventually destroying the power of the faltering Almoravid dynasty by ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Abd al-Mu'min with the correct year: In ______, after the Almoravids lost the leader of their Catalan mercenaries, Reveter, the Almohads defeated them in open battle.
  84. Complete the sentence about Abd al-Mu'min with the correct year: After laying siege to Marrakesh, they finally captured it in ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Polisario Front with the correct year: On 1 May ______, the Polisario Front raided the city of Zouerate, Mauritania, kidnapping six French iron mining technicians and killi…
  86. Complete the sentence about Equity and Reconciliation Commission with the correct year: The commission was established on January 7, ______, by King Mohammed VI through a Dahir.
  87. Complete the sentence about Equity and Reconciliation Commission with the correct year: The IER completed its mandate by delivering its final report to the King of Morocco in December ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Abdelilah Benkirane with the correct year: After several months of unsuccessful coalition negotiations, Mohammed VI relieved him of the task in March ______ and appointed S…
  89. Complete the sentence about Saadeddine Othmani with the correct year: Othmani was born in ______ in Inezgane, near Agadir, in the Sous region.
  90. Complete the sentence about Justice and Development Party with the correct year: In the parliamentary election held on 27 September ______, the party won 42 out of 325 seats, winning most of the distr…
  91. Complete the sentence about Authenticity and Modernity Party with the correct year: Mohamed Cheikh Biadillah was elected as the first secretary-general on 22 February ______.
  92. Complete the sentence about Authenticity and Modernity Party with the correct year: In the ______ communal elections, the party won the greatest number of seats, replacing the Istiqlal Party as the le…
  93. Complete the sentence about Moroccan dirham with the correct year: From ______, the dirham became a subdivision of the Moroccan rial, with 500 Mazunas = 10 dirham = 1 rial.
  94. Complete the sentence about Moroccan dirham with the correct year: When most of Morocco became a French protectorate in ______ it switched to the Moroccan franc.
  95. Complete the sentence about Casablanca Stock Exchange with the correct year: Established in ______, the Casablanca Stock Exchange plays a central role in the Moroccan financial system.
  96. Complete the sentence about Casablanca Stock Exchange with the correct year: In ______, the Casablanca Stock Exchange established the central securities depository Maroclear, responsible for the clear…
  97. Complete the sentence about Royal Moroccan Air Force with the correct year: In ______, it obtained 12 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 fighters, two Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI trainers and either two or four I…
  98. Complete the sentence about Royal Moroccan Air Force with the correct year: Around ______, 10 Douglas C-47 Skytrain and six Fairchild C-119G transport aircraft were acquired.
  99. Complete the sentence about Royal Moroccan Air Force with the correct year: Starting in ______, Morocco acquired 60 AB205, 25 AB206, two AB212, and nine CH-47C helicopters from Italy.
  100. Complete the sentence about Royal Moroccan Air Force with the correct year: The first 25 Mirage F1CH fighters were purchased in ______, together with 38 Aerospatiale Puma helicopters.

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