Tunisian History and Politics

History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about Tunisian dinar with the correct year: Instead a peg to the United States dollar of 1 dinar = US…
  2. Complete the sentence about African Union with the correct year: The bloc was launched on 9 July ______ in Durban, South Africa.
  3. Complete the sentence about Moncef Bey with the correct year: On 2 July ______, Moncef Bey was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur by the Vichy regime.
  4. Complete the sentence about Moncef Bey with the correct year: Axis troops arrived in Tunisia on 16 November ______, and the Tunisian Campaign turned much of the country into a battlefield.
  5. Complete the sentence about Moncef Bey with the correct year: On 1 January ______, the Bey named as his new prime minister, Mohamed Chenik, who was described as 'half-American' by the German represent…
  6. Complete the sentence about Moncef Bey with the correct year: On 13 May ______, on the orders of Giraud, Juin demanded the Bey's abdication, but he refused.
  7. Complete the sentence about Carthage with the correct year: The archaeological site was first surveyed in ______, by Danish consul Christian Tuxen Falbe.
  8. Complete the sentence about Tunisian Republic with the correct year: In ______, Tunisia gained independence as the Tunisian Republic.
  9. Complete the sentence about Government of Tunisia with the correct year: The Economist Intelligence Unit rated Tunisia a "hybrid regime" in ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Tunisian Constitution of 1959 with the correct year: In the meantime, a decree-law of 23 March ______ then a constitutive law of 16 December of the same year provisionally…
  11. Complete the sentence about Tunisian Constitution of 1959 with the correct year: Shortly before Tunisia's independence, a decree of 29 December ______ established a Constituent Assembly.
  12. Complete the sentence about 2014 Tunisian presidential election with the correct year: Upon being elected in ______, the Troika coalition made a "moral pledge" to cede power within a year.
  13. Complete the sentence about 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election with the correct year: The election was held on 23 October ______ and was the first competitive national election following the…
  14. Complete the sentence about Hamadi Jebali with the correct year: In ______ he became involved with Tunisia's Islamist movement, then called Movement of the Islamic Tendency.
  15. Complete the sentence about Hamadi Jebali with the correct year: In August ______, Jebali, along with 170 other sympathisers of Ennahda, was charged with "attempted overthrow".
  16. Complete the sentence about Habib Essid with the correct year: In ______, he was appointed Secretary of State for Fishing and later on as Secretary of State for the Environment.
  17. Complete the sentence about Habib Essid with the correct year: After the Tunisian Revolution, he was appointed Minister of the Interior in the government of Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi on 28 Marc…
  18. Complete the sentence about Habib Essid with the correct year: On 5 January ______, Essid was nominated as Head of Government by Nidaa Tounes and asked to form a new government.
  19. Complete the sentence about Elyes Fakhfakh with the correct year: In ______, at the age of 27, he started his career as an engineer for the French oil corporation Total S.A.
  20. Complete the sentence about Elyes Fakhfakh with the correct year: On 20 December ______, he joined the Jebali Cabinet as Minister of Tourism.
  21. Complete the sentence about Hichem Mechichi with the correct year: Mechichi was a member of the National Commission of Investigation on Corruption and Embezzlement, founded in ______ and chaired by Ab…
  22. Complete the sentence about Ahmed Hachani with the correct year: On 1 August ______, Hachani was appointed by President Kais Saied to form the country's new government.
  23. Complete the sentence about Ahmed Hachani with the correct year: On 7 August ______, Hachani was dismissed as prime minister by President Saied and was replaced by social affairs minister Kamel Madour…
  24. Complete the sentence about Rached Ghannouchi with the correct year: In ______, he received the Jamnalal Bajaj Award for "promoting Gandhian values outside India".
  25. Complete the sentence about Rached Ghannouchi with the correct year: Ghannouchi narrowly survived a vote of no confidence after 97 MPs voted against him on 30 July ______, falling short of 109 needed…
  26. Complete the sentence about Hamma Hammami with the correct year: On 12 January ______, he was arrested at his home for speaking to journalists about the Tunisian revolution.
  27. Complete the sentence about Hamma Hammami with the correct year: Hamma Hammami was born on 8 January ______ in El Aroussa, Tunisia.
  28. Complete the sentence about Mohamed Ennaceur with the correct year: After the Tunisian Revolution of ______ he was once again appointed Minister of Social Affairs in the governments of Mohamed Ghannou…
  29. Complete the sentence about Moncef Ben Salem with the correct year: In ______, his passport was revoked, and he was forbidden from leaving Tunisia or travelling inside the country for twenty years, as…
  30. Complete the sentence about Hédi Baccouche with the correct year: Baccouche led the Socialist Destourian Party until it changed its name to the Constitutional Democratic Rally in ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Hédi Baccouche with the correct year: Fallen in disgrace after the Congress of Progress and Fidelity of ______, he is sent as consul general in Lyon.
  32. Complete the sentence about Hédi Baccouche with the correct year: On 7 November ______, he replaced Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who had just deposed President Bourguiba, as Prime Minister and Secretary G…
  33. Complete the sentence about Mohamed Mzali with the correct year: Mzali was appointed Prime Minister of Tunisia by President Habib Bourguiba on 23 April ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Mohamed Mzali with the correct year: In December ______, under pressure from the International Monetary Fund, the government removed subsidies on flour and bread.
  35. Complete the sentence about Hédi Nouira with the correct year: In ______, the then governor of the Central Bank, Nouira was appointed prime minister.
  36. Complete the sentence about Hédi Nouira with the correct year: Nouira died on 25 January ______, after suffering from an undisclosed illness.
  37. Complete the sentence about Ahmed Ben Salah with the correct year: Excluded from his union role, Ben Salah was appointed minister of public health on 29 July ______.
  38. Complete the sentence about Ahmed Ben Salah with the correct year: After a destabilising succession of ministerial appointments, in January ______ Ahmed Ben Salah was appointed Minister for Planning a…
  39. Complete the sentence about Wassila Ben Ammar with the correct year: After this, she strongly supported Ahmed Ben Salah, who was appointed on 29 July ______ as Secretary of State for Public Health and…
  40. Complete the sentence with the correct year: After two and a half years of absence, she returned to Tunisia in July ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Leila Ben Ali with the correct year: In July ______, Ben Ali founded SAIDA to improve care for cancer patients in Tunisia.
  42. Complete the sentence about Leila Ben Ali with the correct year: Prior to her ______ marriage to Ben Ali, she was a hairdresser with little formal education, partying hard in Paris.
  43. Complete the sentence about Leila Ben Ali with the correct year: Leïla Ben Ali and most of her relatives fled Tunisia to Saudi Arabia, France, Canada and Qatar on 14 January ______, when President Ben…
  44. Complete the sentence about Tunisian bread riots with the correct year: In August ______, there were several increases in the price of basic foods and goods, leading to the average cost-of-living incr…
  45. Complete the sentence about Tunisian bread riots with the correct year: The decision was announced on 29 December ______, and led to an immediate rise in the price of bread and flour.
  46. Complete the sentence about Tunisian bread riots with the correct year: On Tuesday 3 January ______ a state of emergency was declared after the unrest had spread to Tunis and Sfax.
  47. Complete the sentence about Fellagha with the correct year: In Tunisia, Fellagha activity began after the assassination of labor leader Farhat Hached in late ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Constitutional Democratic Rally with the correct year: Under his leadership, the Neo Destour Party successfully garnered independence from France in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Even after the provision was repealed in ______, Ben Ali was reelected by implausibly high margins.
  50. Complete the sentence about Socialist Destourian Party with the correct year: The party was dissolved by President Ben Ali in ______ and replaced by the Democratic Constitutional Rally.
  51. Complete the sentence about Tunisian Human Rights League with the correct year: Saâdeddine Zmerli was the first president and a longtime officer from the beginning of the organization till the year __…
  52. Complete the sentence about National Dialogue Quartet with the correct year: Following the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Sidi Bouzid in mid-December ______, Tunisia was beset by proliferating…
  53. Complete the sentence about Mohamed Bouazizi with the correct year: In ______, Bouazizi was posthumously awarded the Sakharov Prize jointly along with four others for his and their contributions to "h…
  54. Complete the sentence about Sidi Bouzid with the correct year: In early January ______, more clashes with the police in Sidi Bouzid led to at least 20 deaths.
  55. Complete the sentence about Sidi Bouzid with the correct year: As the uprising intensified, President Ben Ali fled the country on 14 January ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Battle of Sidi Bou Zid with the correct year: Most of Tunisia was under Axis occupation but in November ______, the Eastern Dorsale of the Atlas Mountains had been captured…
  57. Complete the sentence about Tunisia Campaign with the correct year: With the Eighth Army no longer constrained, the Axis were driven westwards from Egypt following the Second Battle of El Alamein in N…
  58. Complete the sentence about Battle of Hill 609 with the correct year: In late April ______, Hill 609 was the key to the German defensive line facing the U.S.
  59. Complete the sentence about Battle of Medenine with the correct year: On 13 January ______, the infantry of the 21st Panzer Division were sent north to the 5th Panzer Army, to guard against the loss o…
  60. Complete the sentence about French Tunisia with the correct year: The protectorate was established by the Bardo Treaty of 12 May ______ after a military conquest, despite Italian disapproval.
  61. Complete the sentence about French Tunisia with the correct year: Tunisian sovereignty was more reduced in ______, the Bey was only signing the decrees and laws prepared by the Resident General of Fra…
  62. Complete the sentence about French Tunisia with the correct year: A new party, the Neo Destour, was created in ______ whose methods quickly showed their effectiveness.
  63. Complete the sentence about French Tunisia with the correct year: In ______, Tunisia was granted a constitution with a clear division of ministerial powers and responsibilities, but in practice, Khazn…
  64. Complete the sentence about Free French Forces with the correct year: The successor to the FLA, the modern French Armed Forces would jointly occupy Germany with the other allies until ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about Free French Forces with the correct year: During the Allied invasion of Provence, on 15 August ______, the AFL made the majority of the troops landing on French shores, cap…
  66. Complete the sentence about Free French Forces with the correct year: In response to the allied invasion, the Vichyist Légion impériale was created in November, ______ in Tunisia, while the French fle…
  67. Complete the sentence about Free French Forces with the correct year: Then, in ______, French West Africa and the Alexandrian fleet of admiral René-Émile Godfroy rallied to Giraud.
  68. Complete the sentence about Henri Giraud with the correct year: After Giraud's successful escape to Vichy France in April ______, he went into hiding and established contact with the Allies.
  69. Complete the sentence about Henri Giraud with the correct year: In January ______, he attended the Casablanca Conference along with Franklin D.
  70. Complete the sentence about Jean-Pierre Esteva with the correct year: Subsequently, in ______, he took command of the French naval forces in the South.
  71. Complete the sentence about Jean-Pierre Esteva with the correct year: After the armistice of June ______, Esteva, like many other admirals including François Darlan, chose to serve the Vichy regime.
  72. Complete the sentence about Jean-Pierre Esteva with the correct year: On 26 July ______, he became Resident General of France in Tunisia.
  73. Complete the sentence about Jean-Pierre Esteva with the correct year: In November ______, when the Allies launched Operation Torch, Esteva was still stationed there.
  74. Complete the sentence about Jean-Pierre Esteva with the correct year: On 9 November ______, he condemned the arrival of Luftwaffe aircraft at El Aouina airfield.
  75. Complete the sentence about Jean-Pierre Esteva with the correct year: In May ______, as Allied troops occupied Tunisia, Esteva was repatriated to France by the Germans.
  76. Complete the sentence about Marcel Peyrouton with the correct year: In ______ he entered the central administration of the Colonies as a trainee.
  77. Complete the sentence about Marcel Peyrouton with the correct year: In ______, he was director of the Economic Agency of the African territories under mandat.
  78. Complete the sentence about Marcel Peyrouton with the correct year: Then in ______, he served as deputy chief of the cabinet of the Minister of the Colonies.
  79. Complete the sentence about Pierre Boisson with the correct year: Over the course of the war, Boisson attained many wounds, eventually having one of his legs amputated due to injuries in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Pierre Boisson with the correct year: In ______, he was appointed as an assistant administrator at Brazzaville in the Congo.
  81. Complete the sentence about Pierre Boisson with the correct year: By ______, Boisson had been designated the chief of cabinet role of the under secretary of colonies.
  82. Complete the sentence about Pierre Boisson with the correct year: On 3 September ______, Boisson had been appointed to the role of Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa.
  83. Complete the sentence about Pierre Boisson with the correct year: By June ______, the Nazis had overrun Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and most of France.
  84. Complete the sentence about Mustapha Khaznadar with the correct year: Mustapha Khaznadar was born in the village of Kardamyla on the Greek island of Chios as Georgios Halkias Stravelakis in ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Mustapha Khaznadar with the correct year: Khaznadar died in ______ and is buried in the mausoleum of Tourbet el Bey, in the heart of the Medina of Tunis.
  86. Complete the sentence about Muhammad II ibn al-Husayn with the correct year: Mohamed Bey was born in Tunis in ______ and spent his early years in the royal palaces of Le Bardo and La Marsa.
  87. Complete the sentence about Muhammad II ibn al-Husayn with the correct year: In a decree of 30 August ______, he established the first modern municipal government for the city of Tunis.
  88. Complete the sentence about Murad II Bey with the correct year: But Murad II eventually defeated the latter and was restored to power in ______, at which point he reformed the militia.
  89. Complete the sentence about Murad III Bey with the correct year: The town of Kairouan, which had received him poorly during his flight, was besieged and sacked by the Makhzen tribes in ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Murad III Bey with the correct year: On 2 June ______, on the banks of the Wadi Zarka, Ibrahim struck Murad III with a blow from his blunderbuss, before killing him in the…
  91. Complete the sentence about Husainid Dynasty with the correct year: The Husainids ruled Tunisia until ______ before the establishment of the Republic.
  92. Complete the sentence about Husainid Dynasty with the correct year: In ______ Muhammad III as-Sadiq promulgated a new constitution which transformed Tunisia into a constitutional monarchy, with a legi…
  93. Complete the sentence about Husainid Dynasty with the correct year: In ______, following a French invasion and occupation, the Treaty of Bardo was signed and Tunisia came under the control of France a…
  94. Complete the sentence about Muradid dynasty with the correct year: In ______, at the death of the Dey, Hamuda Bey maneuvered to establish his control over appointments to that office.
  95. Complete the sentence about Muradid dynasty with the correct year: The last Muradid Bey, Murad III, was assassinated in ______ by Ibrahim Sharif, who then ruled for several years with Algerian backing…
  96. Complete the sentence about Hafsids with the correct year: When Abu Muhammad Abd al-Wahid died in ______, the Almohad chiefs in Ifriqiya initially elected his son, Abu Zayd Abd al-Rahman, as the next…
  97. Complete the sentence about Abu Zakariya with the correct year: By ______ Abu Zakariya was the Almohad governor of Gabès and then of Tunis, having inherited these positions in Tunisia from his father.
  98. Complete the sentence about Abu Zakariya with the correct year: Abu Zakariya moved to expand his influence in the vicinity of his young state, and marched his army to Constantine and Béjaïa in ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Abu Zakariya with the correct year: Abu Zakariya returned to Tunis after his successful campaigns and declared independence in ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Abu Zakariya with the correct year: In December ______, the Almohad caliph Abd al-Wahid II died, leaving Abu Zakariya as the most powerful ruler of the Maghreb.

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