History and Politics

History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about Brčko District with the correct year: The government of Republika Srpska resumed operation in the district in ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about Implementation Force with the correct year: The Dayton Peace Accords were started on 22 November ______ by the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia, on behalf of Serbi…
  3. Complete the sentence about Implementation Force with the correct year: Lopez commanded the operation from 31 July to 7 November ______, followed by General William W.
  4. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 20 December ______, the task of IFOR was taken over by SFOR.
  5. Complete the sentence about Implementation Force with the correct year: In turn, SFOR was replaced by the European EUFOR Althea force in ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: The three AOs were known collectively as Multi-National Divisions until the end of ______ where they we…
  7. Complete the sentence with the correct year: For example, it was cleared, in ______, to neutralise Serb radio-television facilities.
  8. Complete the sentence with the correct year: During NATO's ______ Istanbul Summit the end of the SFOR mission was announced.
  9. Complete the sentence about Operation Deliberate Force with the correct year: The shelling of the Sarajevo marketplace on 28 August ______ by the VRS is considered to be the immediate instigating fact…
  10. Complete the sentence about Operation Deliberate Force with the correct year: In response to the refugee and humanitarian crisis in Bosnia, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 743 on…
  11. Complete the sentence about Operation Deliberate Force with the correct year: On 9 October ______, the UNSC passed Resolution 781, prohibiting unauthorized military flights in Bosnian airspace.
  12. Complete the sentence about Siege of Goražde with the correct year: In May ______, the ground forces of Bosnian Serb state officially became known as the Army of Republika Srpska.
  13. Complete the sentence with the correct year: By the end of ______, the VRS held seventy percent of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  14. Complete the sentence about Siege of Goražde with the correct year: In August ______, 1st and 31st Drina Strike Brigades of the ARBiH successfully accomplished the Operation Circle, thereby pushing th…
  15. Complete the sentence about Siege of Goražde with the correct year: In April ______, Goražde was made into a United Nations Safe Area, along with other besieged towns such as Srebrenica, Tuzla and Bih…
  16. Complete the sentence about Bihać pocket with the correct year: After the secessionist Serb Republic of Serbian Krajina was proclaimed in ______ on the west, the inhabitants of Bihać were prevented fr…
  17. Complete the sentence about Bihać pocket with the correct year: An artillery shell fired from Serb positions in the hill hit the town centre on 11 August ______, next to a building converted into a sh…
  18. Complete the sentence about Operation Storm with the correct year: In the autumn of ______, the Serbian government pressured the Croatian government to allow a series of Serb nationalist rallies in th…
  19. Complete the sentence about Croat–Bosniak War with the correct year: The first armed incidents between them occurred in October ______ in central Bosnia.
  20. Complete the sentence about Croat–Bosniak War with the correct year: In November ______, the first free elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina, putting nationalist parties into power.
  21. Complete the sentence about Croat–Bosniak War with the correct year: As early as September or October ______, the JNA had begun arming Bosnian Serbs and organizing them into militias.
  22. Complete the sentence about Croat–Bosniak War with the correct year: In early ______, the leaders of the six republics began a series of meetings to solve the crisis in Yugoslavia.
  23. Complete the sentence about Herzeg-Bosnia with the correct year: The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared Herzeg-Bosnia unconstitutional on 14 September ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Herzeg-Bosnia with the correct year: In March ______, the Washington Agreement was signed that ended the conflict between Croats and Bosniaks.
  25. Complete the sentence about Herzeg-Bosnia with the correct year: One of the earliest mentions of the term was by Croatian writer Ivan Zovko in his ______ book Croatianhood in the Tradition and Customs…
  26. Complete the sentence about Herzeg-Bosnia with the correct year: Croatian historian Ferdo Šišić used the term in his ______ book Herzeg-Bosnia on the Occasion of Annexation.
  27. Complete the sentence about Siege of Mostar with the correct year: From late ______, the JNA began arming Serb formations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and assisting in their organization.
  28. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: The Venice Commission issued an opinion on the ______ draft amendments.
  29. Complete the sentence about Entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: According to Soeren Keil, the country "moved from a confederal-like system in ______ to a multinational federation…
  30. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: Relations with its neighbors of Croatia and Serbia have been fairly stable since the signing of the Dayto…
  31. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: Bosnia and Herzegovina and Georgia established diplomatic relations in ______.
  32. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: The first high-level visit was that paid by the BiH Foreign Minister Igor Crnadak to Tbilisi in August __…
  33. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: Pakistan recognised the independence of Bosnia from Yugoslavia in ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: Saudi Arabia has provided enormous financial assistance to Bosnia and Herzegovina since its independence…
  35. Complete the sentence about Bosnia and Herzegovina–European Union relations with the correct year: The EU established a regional approach to the Western Balkans in ______, with political and economic…
  36. Complete the sentence about Bosnia and Herzegovina–European Union relations with the correct year: An Interim Agreement on Trade and Trade-related issues was signed and entered into force on 1 July __…
  37. Complete the sentence about Bosnia and Herzegovina–European Union relations with the correct year: Trade has increased since ______ and EU products have been granted reciprocal preference in Bosnia an…
  38. Complete the sentence about Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: Conscription was completely abolished in Bosnia and Herzegovina effective 1 January ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: The Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina was created on 15 April ______ during the early days of the…
  40. Complete the sentence about Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: The Air Defense of VRS shot down several aircraft, like F-16, Mirage ______, F-18 and one Croatian Air Force M…
  41. Complete the sentence about Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: On 3 March ______, Bosnia and Herzegovina declared its independence from Yugoslavia.
  42. Complete the sentence about Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: The flag chosen in ______ has a white background with the Bosnian lily in the centre.
  43. Complete the sentence about Bosniaks with the correct year: The modern spelling is contained in the ______ Penny Cyclopaedia V. 231/1: "The inhabitants of Bosnia are composed of Bosniaks, a race of Sc…
  44. Complete the sentence about Bosnian Serbs with the correct year: Under Constantin Bodin, Serbian territory expanded to take most of Bosnia but the Kingdom broke up following his death in ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Bosnian Serbs with the correct year: After ______, Ban Kulin, ruler of Bosnia began to assert his independence and Hungarian control became nominal.
  46. Complete the sentence about Bosnian Serbs with the correct year: The Kotromanić noble and later royal dynasty would rule Bosnia from the second half of the 13th century until Ottoman conquest in _____…
  47. Complete the sentence about Bosnian language with the correct year: The language is called Bosnian language in the ______ Dayton Accords and is concluded by observers to have received legitimacy and i…
  48. Complete the sentence about Bosnian language with the correct year: The majority of Serbian linguists hold that the term Bosniak language is the only one appropriate, which was agreed as early as ____…
  49. Complete the sentence about Party of Democratic Action with the correct year: The Party of Democratic Action was officially established on 26 May ______ in Sarajevo.
  50. Complete the sentence about Party of Democratic Action with the correct year: During the first multi-party elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina in ______, the SDA achieved significant success, becoming…
  51. Complete the sentence about Serb Democratic Party with the correct year: Radovan Karadžić founded the Serb Democratic Party in July ______.
  52. Complete the sentence about Serb Democratic Party with the correct year: Throughout September ______, the SDS began to establish various "Serb Autonomous Regions" throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  53. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The party was founded on 18 August ______, with the first party convention held in Sarajevo.
  54. Complete the sentence about Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: Throughout its history, the HDZ BiH has had nine presidents, the current one being Dragan Čović s…
  55. Complete the sentence about Željko Komšić with the correct year: In the ______ general election, Komšić successfully ran for a seat in the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina as the Croat member.
  56. Complete the sentence about Željko Komšić with the correct year: Komšić was elected to the Presidency for a third term in the ______ general election.
  57. Complete the sentence about Bakir Izetbegović with the correct year: Born in Sarajevo in ______, Izetbegović is the son of the only president of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alija Izetbegov…
  58. Complete the sentence about Bakir Izetbegović with the correct year: After serving as director of the Construction Institute of the Sarajevo Canton, Izetbegović entered politics in ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Bakir Izetbegović with the correct year: In the ______ general election, he was elected to the national Parliament.
  60. Complete the sentence about Bakir Izetbegović with the correct year: In the ______ general election, Izetbegović was elected Bosniak member of the Bosnian Presidency.
  61. Complete the sentence about Zlatko Lagumdžija with the correct year: Lagumdžija graduated from the University of Sarajevo in ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Valentin Inzko with the correct year: After finishing the Slovene language high school in Klagenfurt in ______, he enrolled in the University of Graz, where he studied law…
  63. Complete the sentence about Valentin Inzko with the correct year: Between October and December ______, Inzko was a member of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe mission to the San…
  64. Complete the sentence about Richard Holbrooke with the correct year: Holbrooke was a prime contender to succeed Warren Christopher as Secretary of State but was passed over in ______ as President Bill…
  65. Complete the sentence about Richard Holbrooke with the correct year: Holbrooke then joined the ______ presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Clinton and became a top foreign policy adviser.
  66. Complete the sentence about Richard Holbrooke with the correct year: In January ______, Holbrooke was appointed as a special adviser on Pakistan and Afghanistan, working under President Barack Obama a…
  67. Complete the sentence about Richard Holbrooke with the correct year: On December 13, ______, Holbrooke died from complications of an aortic dissection.
  68. Complete the sentence about Richard Holbrooke with the correct year: Holbrooke's mother, whose Jewish family fled Hamburg in ______ for Buenos Aires before coming to New York, took him to Quaker meeti…
  69. Complete the sentence about Richard Holbrooke with the correct year: David's father was Dean Rusk who became President Kennedy's Secretary of State in ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Richard Holbrooke with the correct year: After Scarsdale High School, Holbrooke earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from Brown University in ______, attending on a full-tu…
  71. Complete the sentence about Naser Orić with the correct year: On 3 July ______, the Appeals Chamber of the ICTY reversed the Trial Chamber's conviction and acquitted Orić of all charges brought agains…
  72. Complete the sentence about Naser Orić with the correct year: In November ______, he was formally acquitted by a Bosnian appeals court.
  73. Complete the sentence about Naser Orić with the correct year: In ______, he completed a six-month training course in Zemun and served in Savski Venac in Belgrade as a trainee policeman.
  74. Complete the sentence about Naser Orić with the correct year: In ______, Orić was deployed to Kosovo as a member of a Special Police unit of the Ministry of the Interior of the Socialist Republic of S…
  75. Complete the sentence about Naser Orić with the correct year: In August ______, Orić was transferred to a police station in Ilidža, outside Sarajevo.
  76. Complete the sentence about Biljana Plavšić with the correct year: Plavšić was born on 7 July ______ in Tuzla, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
  77. Complete the sentence about Radislav Krstić with the correct year: On 2 August ______, Krstić became the first man convicted of genocide by the Tribunal, and was sentenced to 46 years in prison.
  78. Complete the sentence about Radislav Krstić with the correct year: In ______, upon completion of his secondary education, he began his university education by enrolling in the military academy in Belg…
  79. Complete the sentence about Radislav Krstić with the correct year: Krstić's tour of duty in Sarajevo ended in ______ when he was posted to the general staff of the Military Academy of Serbia.
  80. Complete the sentence about Mlada Bosna with the correct year: The region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, populated by Serbs, Croats and Muslims, was part of the Ottoman Empire until ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about Mlada Bosna with the correct year: After the anti-Ottoman Herzegovina uprising, the region was occupied by Austria-Hungary in ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about Mlada Bosna with the correct year: In ______, an uprising broke out against the Austro-Hungarian occupation authorities, but was suppressed by force.
  83. Complete the sentence about Mlada Bosna with the correct year: By ______, a small but growing number of young men from Bosnia were studying in Prague, Zagreb, Vienna, Graz, Istanbul, and Belgrade.
  84. Complete the sentence about Dobrica Ćosić with the correct year: When the Second World War reached Yugoslavia in ______, he joined the communist Partisans.
  85. Complete the sentence about Dobrica Ćosić with the correct year: In ______ he found himself in Budapest during the Hungarian revolt.
  86. Complete the sentence about Dobrica Ćosić with the correct year: In late ______ Ćosić was chosen to participate in the formation of a new program for the Communist Party.
  87. Complete the sentence about Petar Kočić with the correct year: In January ______, Kočić was admitted into a Belgrade mental hospital, where he died two years later.
  88. Complete the sentence about Petar Kočić with the correct year: Numerous streets in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia carry his name and his likeness has appeared on Bosnian 100 KM banknotes since ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Petar Kočić with the correct year: Petar Kočić was born into a Bosnian Serb family on 29 June ______ in the hamlet of Stričići, in the Zmijanje region, near Banja Luka in n…
  90. Complete the sentence about Petar Kočić with the correct year: Kočić was the best student in his class at the religious school, and upon graduating in ______, he departed for Sarajevo to attend high s…
  91. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, I graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna.
  92. Complete the sentence about Mehmed Spaho with the correct year: In ______, Spaho was elected to the Sarajevo City Council, after his political associate and friend, Esad Kulović, stepped down.
  93. Complete the sentence about Mehmed Spaho with the correct year: Bosnian Muslim leadership was divided at the outbreak of World War I in August ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Olympics with the correct year: Bosnia and Herzegovina sent athletes to the Summer Olympic Games under its own flag for the first time in ____…
  95. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The team's highest FIFA World Ranking was 13th, which they achieved in August ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team with the correct year: Following acceptance into FIFA, Bosnia and Herzegovina entered ______ FIFA World Cup qualifiers to comp…
  97. Complete the sentence about Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team with the correct year: In the UEFA Euro ______ qualifiers, Bosnia and Herzegovina finished third behind Belgium and Wales.
  98. Complete the sentence about Bosnia and Herzegovina at the FIFA World Cup with the correct year: While in the early editions they were mainly represented by Serbian players, the squads became all-inclu…
  99. Complete the sentence about Bosnia and Herzegovina at the FIFA World Cup with the correct year: Several Bosnian players were part of the ______ first team line-up that advanced from the group stage un…
  100. Complete the sentence about Bosnia and Herzegovina at the FIFA World Cup with the correct year: Bosnia finished in third place during the ______ World Cup qualifiers, recording two draws with Spain al…

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