History and Independence

History And Independence

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  1. Complete the sentence about Aceh War with the correct year: The Dutch saw this as a violation of a prior agreement with the British in ______ and used this as an opportunity to annex Aceh militarily.
  2. Complete the sentence about Teuku Umar with the correct year: In ______, Umar married his cousin Cut Nyak Dhien; Dhien later joined him in the guerrilla campaign.
  3. Complete the sentence about Teuku Umar with the correct year: In ______, the Dutch colonial government signed a peace treaty with the Acehnese guerrillas.
  4. Complete the sentence about Teuku Umar with the correct year: After war broke out again in ______, Umar worked to stop the Acehnese people's struggle.
  5. Complete the sentence about Teuku Umar with the correct year: For his service, on 1 January ______, Umar was given the title Johan Pahlawan and control of a legion of 250 fully armed soldiers.
  6. Complete the sentence about Pattimura with the correct year: Thomas Matulessy was born on 8 June ______, in Negeri Haria 'Leawaka Amapati'.
  7. Complete the sentence about Pattimura with the correct year: Thomas Matulessy professional journey began in ______ when he joined the British Army in Ambon.
  8. Complete the sentence about Pattimura with the correct year: The restitution process was fully realized on 19 August ______, in Batavia.
  9. Complete the sentence about Pattimura with the correct year: Specifically for the Moluccas, the transfer of power took place on 25 March ______, at Fort Victoria, Ambon City.
  10. Complete the sentence about Imam Bonjol with the correct year: In ______, the Dutch signed the Masang Agreement ending hostilities with the state of Bonjol.
  11. Complete the sentence about Imam Bonjol with the correct year: Syarif was captured in ______ but escaped after three months to continue the struggle from his tiny fortress in Bonjol.
  12. Complete the sentence about Imam Bonjol with the correct year: After three years of siege, the Dutch finally managed to sack Bonjol on 16 August ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Sisingamangaraja XII with the correct year: Sisingamangaraja XII was born Patuan Bosar Sinambela in Bakkara, Tapanuli, on 18 February ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about Sisingamangaraja XII with the correct year: In February ______, Sisingamangaraja XII held a religious ceremony to rally the Bataks behind him in a war of resistance against…
  15. Complete the sentence about Sisingamangaraja XII with the correct year: In ______, Dutch forces under Lt Col Gotfried Coenraad Ernst van Daalen attacked Tanah Gayo and some areas around Lake Toba in o…
  16. Complete the sentence about Sisingamangaraja XII with the correct year: The Dutch reinforced their troops and weapons before launching another offensive in ______ against the remainder of Sisingamanga…
  17. Complete the sentence about Raden Ajeng Kartini with the correct year: In ______, Kartini was declared as a National Hero of Indonesia, and her birthday is now celebrated in Indonesia as Kartini Day i…
  18. Complete the sentence about Raden Ajeng Kartini with the correct year: Kartini was born 21 April ______, in Java, Indonesia, in the village of Mayong.
  19. Complete the sentence about Ethical Policy with the correct year: In ______, Dutch Queen Wilhelmina announced that the Netherlands accepted an ethical responsibility for the welfare of their colonial…
  20. Complete the sentence about Ethical Policy with the correct year: The policy had mostly ceased to exist by ______, during the Great Depression.
  21. Complete the sentence about Budi Utomo with the correct year: The organization's founding in ______ is considered instrumental to the beginning of the Indonesian National Awakening.
  22. Complete the sentence about Budi Utomo with the correct year: The first leader was Soedirohoesodo, but at the organization's first major gathering in Yogyakarta in October ______, he stepped aside for…
  23. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, Samanhudi founded SDI in the city of Surakarta with the help of Tirto.
  24. Complete the sentence about Sarekat Islam with the correct year: On August 12, ______, SDI was briefly suspended by the colonial government after some conflicts between and Chinese and the occurrence…
  25. Complete the sentence about Sarekat Islam with the correct year: After the restriction was lifted, SDI renamed itself to Sarekat Islam on September 19, ______, in Surabaya.
  26. Complete the sentence about Sarekat Islam with the correct year: On January 26, ______, the first party congress was held in Surabaya which gathered tens of thousands of participants.
  27. Complete the sentence about Indonesian National Party with the correct year: The party was fused into the Indonesian Democratic Party in ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Indonesian National Party with the correct year: The study club was later reformed on 4 July ______ into a movement called the Indonesian National Association.
  29. Complete the sentence about Indonesian National Party with the correct year: In May ______, the name was changed to the Indonesian National Party.
  30. Complete the sentence about Indonesian National Party with the correct year: Wishing to make a fresh start free of the stigma of a court verdict against it, at an extraordinary party congress on 25 Ap…
  31. Complete the sentence about Youth Pledge with the correct year: The music was recorded secretly in Yo Kim Tjan's house near Gunung Sahari Area in ______.
  32. Complete the sentence about Youth Pledge with the correct year: In October ______, the second Indonesian youth congress was held in three locations.
  33. Complete the sentence about Youth Pledge with the correct year: The first session was held on 27 October ______ in the Katholieke Jongelingenbond building, where hope was expressed for the congress to…
  34. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The congress took place from 27 to 28 October ______, in Jakarta.
  35. Complete the sentence about Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies with the correct year: In May ______, Germany occupied the Netherlands, and martial law was declared in the Dutch East Indies.
  36. Complete the sentence about Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies with the correct year: The Dutch declared war on Japan following the 7 December ______ attack on Pearl Harbor.
  37. Complete the sentence about Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies with the correct year: The Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies began on 10 January ______, and the Imperial Japanese Arm…
  38. Complete the sentence about Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies with the correct year: As such, most of the Dutch East Indies was still under occupation at the time of Japan's surrender in Au…
  39. Complete the sentence about Proclamation of Indonesian Independence with the correct year: The date of the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence was made a public holiday by a government decree issu…
  40. Complete the sentence about Proclamation of Indonesian Independence with the correct year: The PNI grew rapidly, causing concern for the authorities, who arrested Sukarno and seven party leaders in De…
  41. Complete the sentence about Sukarno with the correct year: Upon Japanese surrender, Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declared Indonesian independence on 17 August ______, and Sukarno was appointed president…
  42. Complete the sentence about Mohammad Hatta with the correct year: In ______, the organization changed its name to Indonesische Vereeniging and later to its Indonesian translation: the Perhimpoenan Ind…
  43. Complete the sentence about Mohammad Hatta with the correct year: In February ______, Hatta went to Brussels to attend a congress held by the League Against Imperialism and Colonial Oppression.
  44. Complete the sentence about Mohammad Hatta with the correct year: By the middle of ______, Perhimpoenan Indonesia's activities had alarmed the Dutch authorities.
  45. Complete the sentence about Sutan Sjahrir with the correct year: Towards independence on 17 August ______, he was involved in the Rengasdengklok Incident and the Proclamation of Independence.
  46. Complete the sentence about Sutan Sjahrir with the correct year: In ______, he was released to seek medical treatment and was allowed to go to Zürich, Switzerland.
  47. Complete the sentence about Sutan Sjahrir with the correct year: On the same day, through Presidential Decree No. 76/______, Sjahrir was inaugurated as a National Hero of Indonesia.
  48. Complete the sentence about Sutan Sjahrir with the correct year: Sutan Sjahrir was born on 5 March ______, in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra.
  49. Complete the sentence about Indonesian National Revolution with the correct year: On 7 September ______, with the war going badly for the Japanese, Prime Minister Koiso promised independence for Indon…
  50. Complete the sentence about Renville Agreement with the correct year: On 1 August ______, an Australian resolution in the United Nations Security Council calling for a ceasefire between the Dutch and…
  51. Complete the sentence about Renville Agreement with the correct year: A few days later, on 29 August ______, the Dutch proclaimed the Van Mook Line, claiming it marked the extent of the areas they hel…
  52. Complete the sentence about Renville Agreement with the correct year: The first formal session of the CGO began on 8 December ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference with the correct year: On 17 August ______, Indonesian nationalist leader Sukarno declared Indonesian independence from Japan.
  54. Complete the sentence about Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference with the correct year: The Dutch favoured a federal Indonesian state, and organised the Malino Conference in July ______, which led…
  55. Complete the sentence about Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference with the correct year: The Indonesian government, in exile for over six months, returned to the temporary capital at Yogyakarta on 6…
  56. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The delegates agreed on the basic principles and outline for the Federal Constitution of ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference with the correct year: Negotiations, which took place from 23 August to 2 November ______, were assisted by the United Nations Commi…
  58. Complete the sentence about Battle of Surabaya with the correct year: The peak of the battle was in November ______, and was the largest single battle of the revolution and became a national symbol of…
  59. Complete the sentence about Battle of Surabaya with the correct year: On 17 August ______, Sukarno and Hatta declared the independence of Indonesia in Jakarta, two days after the Japanese emperor's su…
  60. Complete the sentence about Battle of Surabaya with the correct year: In September and October ______ a series of incidents took place involving pro-Dutch Eurasians, and atrocities were committed by I…
  61. Complete the sentence about Bandung Conference with the correct year: Nehru first got the idea at the Asian Relations Conference, held in India in March ______, on the eve of India's independence.
  62. Complete the sentence about Bandung Conference with the correct year: At the Colombo Powers conference in April ______, Indonesia proposed a global conference.
  63. Complete the sentence about Bandung Conference with the correct year: Plans for the Bandung conference were announced in December ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Guided Democracy with the correct year: Even Indonesia's first national elections in ______ failed to bring about political stability.
  65. Complete the sentence about Guided Democracy with the correct year: In March ______, Sukarno accepted the Army chief of staff General Abdul Haris Nasution's proposal for a declaration of martial law a…
  66. Complete the sentence about Guided Democracy with the correct year: President Sukarno made an official visit to the People's Republic of China in October ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Pancasila with the correct year: In ______, the Empire of Japan invaded and occupied the Dutch East Indies.
  68. Complete the sentence about Pancasila with the correct year: On 15 November ______, at the fourth session of the CAC, Sukarno gave a speech listing five guidelines for life for the Indonesian nation.
  69. Complete the sentence about Konfrontasi with the correct year: A build-up of Indonesian forces on the Kalimantan border in December ______ saw the UK commit significant forces from the UK-based Army S…
  70. Complete the sentence about Konfrontasi with the correct year: The intensity of the conflict began to subside following the coup d'état of October ______ and Sukarno's loss of power to General Suharto…
  71. Complete the sentence about West New Guinea dispute with the correct year: Following a controversial plebiscite in ______, West New Guinea was formally integrated into Indonesia.
  72. Complete the sentence about West New Guinea dispute with the correct year: By ______, Tidore's borders had been extended to the proximity of the current international border between Indonesia and Papu…
  73. Complete the sentence about West New Guinea dispute with the correct year: Dutch activity in New Guinea was minimal until ______ when the Dutch established an administrative centre, which was subseque…
  74. Complete the sentence about West New Guinea dispute with the correct year: In ______, the Netherlands formally purchased West New Guinea from the Sultanate of Tidore, incorporating it into the Netherl…
  75. Complete the sentence about Act of Free Choice with the correct year: Despite this, Ortiz-Sanz's UN team in ______ estimated that 95% of the Papuans supported independence.
  76. Complete the sentence about 30 September Movement with the correct year: In the early hours of 1 October ______ in Jakarta, G30S assassinated six Indonesian Army generals, including the Commander of t…
  77. Complete the sentence about Suharto with the correct year: An attempted coup on 30 September and 1 October ______ was countered by Suharto-led troops.
  78. Complete the sentence about Suharto with the correct year: In March ______, the MPRS appointed Suharto as acting president, and he was appointed president the following year.
  79. Complete the sentence about Suharto with the correct year: Suharto ordered an invasion of East Timor in ______, followed by a 23-year occupation of the country and genocide.
  80. Complete the sentence about Suharto with the correct year: Under immense pressure, Suharto resigned in May ______ after more than three decades in power.
  81. Complete the sentence about Suharto with the correct year: Suharto died in January ______ and received a state military funeral with full honors.
  82. Complete the sentence about New Order with the correct year: Sukarno was Indonesia's founding president, a position he had held since the republic's formation in ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about New Order with the correct year: By ______ at the height of the Cold War, the PKI penetrated all levels of government.
  84. Complete the sentence about Golkar with the correct year: Following the Fall of Suharto in ______, the party's dominance weakened, and its share of votes declined in the subsequent legislative electio…
  85. Complete the sentence about Golkar with the correct year: The party regained its position as the largest party in the DPR after winning the ______ legislative election, and its member Jusuf Kalla was…
  86. Complete the sentence about Golkar with the correct year: In ______, President Sukarno introduced his concept of Guided Democracy, in which so-called functional groups would play a role in government…
  87. Complete the sentence about Golkar with the correct year: By ______ there were almost 250 organizations under the Sekber umbrella.
  88. Complete the sentence about Asian financial crisis with the correct year: In ______, growth in the Philippines dropped to virtually zero.
  89. Complete the sentence about May 1998 riots of Indonesia with the correct year: Megawati had been selected as party leader in general congress in December ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about May 1998 riots of Indonesia with the correct year: The government declared Megawati's appointment invalid and organised a new congress in June ______, during which a new pa…
  91. Complete the sentence about May 1998 riots of Indonesia with the correct year: Violence continued up to the election on 29 May ______, which was won by Golkar with 74% of the votes.
  92. Complete the sentence about May 1998 riots of Indonesia with the correct year: At this time, Indonesia was experiencing an economic boom with its gross domestic product growing at a rate of 8% in ____…
  93. Complete the sentence about B. J. Habibie with the correct year: In ______, Habibie received an engineer's degree in Germany with the title Diplom-Ingenieur.
  94. Complete the sentence about B. J. Habibie with the correct year: In ______, Habibie returned to Indonesia for three months on sick leave.
  95. Complete the sentence about B. J. Habibie with the correct year: The two married on 12 May ______, returning to Germany shortly afterwards.
  96. Complete the sentence about Abdurrahman Wahid with the correct year: Until ______, the spiritual practice to celebrate the Chinese New Year by Chinese families was restricted specifically only inside…
  97. Complete the sentence about Abdurrahman Wahid with the correct year: Abdurrahman ad-Dakhil was born on the fourth day of the Sha'ban, the eighth month of the Islamic calendar in ______ in Jombang, to…
  98. Complete the sentence about Megawati Sukarnoputri with the correct year: Megawati Sukarnoputri became president in ______ when Abdurrahman Wahid was impeached and removed from office.
  99. Complete the sentence about Megawati Sukarnoputri with the correct year: Sukarno had declared Indonesia's independence from the Netherlands 2 years prior in ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Megawati Sukarnoputri with the correct year: Megawati Sukarnoputri was 19 when her father relinquished power in ______ and was succeeded by a government which eventually ca…

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