Latvian History and Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Latvia with the correct year: The last period of external hegemony began in ______, when control over Riga and parts of modern-day Latvia switched from Sweden toā€¦
  2. Complete the sentence about Livonian Crusade with the correct year: When William of Modena was finally appointed legate in late ______, it was at the request of Albert of Riga rather than by the pope'ā€¦
  3. Complete the sentence about Livonian Confederation with the correct year: In ______ the Livonian Order bought the Duchy of Estonia from Denmark.
  4. Complete the sentence about Livonian Confederation with the correct year: In ______, during the Livonian War, Terra Mariana ceased to exist.
  5. Complete the sentence about Livonian Confederation with the correct year: In ______ the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, a state decoration, was instituted to honor the independence of Estonia.
  6. Complete the sentence about Livonian Confederation with the correct year: In ______ Pope Celestine III called for a crusade against the pagans in Northern Europe.
  7. Complete the sentence about Livonian Order with the correct year: The Livonian Order was an autonomous branch of the Teutonic Order, formed in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Livonian Order with the correct year: In ______, the Teutonic Knights of Livonia signed the Treaty of Stensby with the Kingdom of Denmark.
  9. Complete the sentence about Livonian Order with the correct year: In ______, the Livonian Order tried to take the city of Novgorod.
  10. Complete the sentence about Livonian Order with the correct year: In ______, Lithuanians took Karkus Castle north of Riga, and defeated the order in the Battle of Turaida, killing Livonian Land Masterā€¦
  11. Complete the sentence about Livonian Order with the correct year: In ______, the order bought the Duchy of Estonia from King Valdemar IV of Denmark.
  12. Complete the sentence about Livonian Order with the correct year: During the Livonian War, however, the order suffered a decisive defeat by troops of Muscovite Russia in the Battle of Ergeme in ______ā€¦
  13. Complete the sentence about Teutonic Order with the correct year: The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society c. ______ in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem.
  14. Complete the sentence about Teutonic Order with the correct year: Purely religious since ______, the Teutonic Order still confers limited honorary knighthoods.
  15. Complete the sentence about Teutonic Order with the correct year: In ______, they took over a hospital in the city in order to take care of the sick and began to describe themselves as the Hospital ofā€¦
  16. Complete the sentence about Teutonic Order with the correct year: Konrad was unable to stop the Prussian raids and the Dobrzyń knights he had gathered for this purpose were defeated, in ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Teutonic Order with the correct year: So, in coordination with the Holy Roman Empire and Konrad, the Grand Master Hermann von Salza and his Teutonic Order arrived in the reā€¦
  18. Complete the sentence about Duchy of Courland and Semigallia with the correct year: On 24 October ______, it was annexed by the Russian Empire in the Third Partition of Poland.
  19. Complete the sentence about Duchy of Courland and Semigallia with the correct year: In ______, during the Livonian Wars, the Livonian Confederation was dismantled and the Livonian Order was disbanded.
  20. Complete the sentence about Duchy of Courland and Semigallia with the correct year: On 25 December ______, the Union of Grodno established a real union between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Ducā€¦
  21. Complete the sentence about Duchy of Courland and Semigallia with the correct year: In ______, he issued the Privilegium Gotthardinum, which allowed the landholders to enserf the native peasantry on tā€¦
  22. Complete the sentence about Duchy of Courland and Semigallia with the correct year: When Gotthard Kettler died in ______, his sons, Friedrich and Wilhelm, became the dukes of Courland.
  23. Complete the sentence about Jacob Kettler with the correct year: In ______, he made a grand tour of Europe, visiting Paris, London, and Amsterdam, where he studied shipbuilding.
  24. Complete the sentence about Jacob Kettler with the correct year: In ______ Jacob sent a fleet to build Fort Jacob on the Gambia River, on an island that would later be known as Kunta Kinteh Island.
  25. Complete the sentence about Swedish Livonia with the correct year: Formally, it was ceded to Russia in the Treaty of Nystad in ______, together with Swedish Estonia and Swedish Ingria.
  26. Complete the sentence about Great Northern War with the correct year: The remaining Swedish forces in plague-stricken areas south and east of the Baltic Sea were evicted, with the last city, Tallinnā€¦
  27. Complete the sentence about Great Northern War with the correct year: From June ______, Denmark and Russia prepared a joint invasion of Sweden proper, which the Tsar envisioned as dealing the Swedishā€¦
  28. Complete the sentence about Great Northern War with the correct year: In ______, Sweden launched a second and even larger campaign against Norway.
  29. Complete the sentence about Governorate of Livonia with the correct year: Following the February Revolution in ______, the northern Estonian-majority counties were merged into the Autonomous Governoraā€¦
  30. Complete the sentence about Governorate of Livonia with the correct year: Sweden formally ceded Swedish Livonia to Russia in ______ with the Treaty of Nystad.
  31. Complete the sentence about Governorate of Livonia with the correct year: In ______ Smolensk Governorate was separated from the governorate, which now had five provinces: Riga, Wenden, Dorpat, Pernauā€¦
  32. Complete the sentence about Governorate of Livonia with the correct year: On 3 July ______ Catherine the Great reorganized the governorate into the Riga Viceroyalty.
  33. Complete the sentence about Governorate of Livonia with the correct year: In ______, under Paul I's reforms, the territory was reconstituted as the Governorate of Livonia.
  34. Complete the sentence about Governorate of Livonia with the correct year: In ______ the serfs of Livonia were liberated by Tsar Alexander I, in a precursor to his plans for the rest of Russia.
  35. Complete the sentence about Governorate of Courland with the correct year: In ______, during World War I, the province was occupied by the German Army under Ober Ost.
  36. Complete the sentence about Governorate of Courland with the correct year: In ______, the viceroyalty was reconstituted as the Courland Governorate.
  37. Complete the sentence about Governorate of Courland with the correct year: In ______, during World War I, Courland was occupied by the German Empire and incorporated into the Ober Ost military adminisā€¦
  38. Complete the sentence about Governorate of Courland with the correct year: On 15 January ______, the council declared Latvia an independent republic.
  39. Complete the sentence about Governorate of Courland with the correct year: In February ______, German forces advanced across the remaining Baltic lands.
  40. Complete the sentence about Latvian National Awakening with the correct year: Less frequently, some have seen the New Current and the ______ Revolution ā€” and sometimes even the Khrushchev Thaw ā€” as Naā€¦
  41. Complete the sentence about KriŔjānis Valdemārs with the correct year: After graduation in ______ he moved to St Petersburg and worked as a clerk in Ministry of Finance.
  42. Complete the sentence about KriÅ”jānis Valdemārs with the correct year: In ______ he became editor and main publisher of the Latvian newspaper Pēterburgas AvÄ«zes which was hitherto the most radical Latā€¦
  43. Complete the sentence about KriŔjānis Valdemārs with the correct year: In ______ Valdemārs helped establish the first Latvian naval school in Ainaži as a way of making Latvians rich.
  44. Complete the sentence about KriŔjānis Valdemārs with the correct year: Valdemārs published a Latvian-Russian-German dictionary in ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about KriÅ”jānis Barons with the correct year: In recognition of Barons' labors and the historical value of the Cabinet of Folksongs, the work was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory ofā€¦
  46. Complete the sentence about Declaration of the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia with the correct year: The Latvian diplomatic service in exile had maintained a physical presence oā€¦
  47. Complete the sentence about Declaration of the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia with the correct year: Secondly it notes Appeal of All-Latvian congress of people deputies of 21 Apā€¦
  48. Complete the sentence about Anatolijs Gorbunovs with the correct year: In the latter capacity he was effectively the acting head of state before the election of the Fifth Saeima in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Anatolijs Gorbunovs with the correct year: In ______ he worked at the Nikrāce state farm in the Skrunda district of the Latvian SSR, the Latgiproselstroi institute and theā€¦
  50. Complete the sentence about Anatolijs Gorbunovs with the correct year: Gorbunovs remained as chairman of the body, renamed the Supreme Council of Latvia, until ______.
  51. Complete the sentence about Guntis Ulmanis with the correct year: In ______, following the Soviet occupation, Guntis Ulmanis and his family were deported to Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russian SFSR.
  52. Complete the sentence about Guntis Ulmanis with the correct year: In ______, they returned to Latvia, but were not allowed to settle in Riga, so they stayed at Ēdole in the KuldÄ«ga area of the Latvianā€¦
  53. Complete the sentence about Guntis Ulmanis with the correct year: In ______ upon receiving his first passport Ulmanis chose to use his birth surname.
  54. Complete the sentence about Guntis Ulmanis with the correct year: After completing his studies in the university in ______, he was drafted into the Soviet army, where he served for two years.
  55. Complete the sentence about Guntis Ulmanis with the correct year: In ______, during the Singing Revolution, Guntis RumpÄ«tis quit the Communist Party and returned to using his original surname ā€“ Ulmaniā€¦
  56. Complete the sentence about Guntis Ulmanis with the correct year: In ______, he was appointed Council Member of the National Bank of Latvia.
  57. Complete the sentence about Vaira VÄ«Ä·e-Freiberga with the correct year: At the end of ______, as the second Soviet occupation of Latvia began, her parents escaped to Nazi Germany.
  58. Complete the sentence about Vaira VÄ«Ä·e-Freiberga with the correct year: Then her family moved to Casablanca in French Morocco in ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Valdis Zatlers with the correct year: After his studies he worked in Riga Hospital No. 2 and became chief of its traumatology unit in ______.
  60. Complete the sentence about Valdis Zatlers with the correct year: Zatlers himself was not a member of any political party, but had signed the manifesto of the People's Party when the party was foundedā€¦
  61. Complete the sentence about Raimonds Vējonis with the correct year: Vējonis was born on 15 June ______ in Pskov Oblast to a Latvian father and a Russian mother, while his father was serving in the Sovā€¦
  62. Complete the sentence about Egils Levits with the correct year: During the late Soviet-era, he was a member of the Popular Front of Latvia and contributed to the declaration of restored Latvian indepeā€¦
  63. Complete the sentence about Egils Levits with the correct year: In ______, the family was expelled from the USSR for their Soviet dissident activities and settled in West Germany, where Ingeborga's reā€¦
  64. Complete the sentence about Edgars Rinkēvičs with the correct year: Upon graduating from high school, he started a bachelor's degree at the University of Latvia's Faculty of History and Philosophy, whā€¦
  65. Complete the sentence about Edgars Rinkēvičs with the correct year: In ______, he obtained his master's degree in political science, followed by a second master's degree from the Dwight D.
  66. Complete the sentence about Edgars Rinkēvičs with the correct year: Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, of the National Defense University in the United States, obtained inā€¦
  67. Complete the sentence about Valdis Dombrovskis with the correct year: James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park for electrical engineering in ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Valdis Dombrovskis with the correct year: In ______, Dombrovskis became a board member of the New Era Party.
  69. Complete the sentence about Valdis Dombrovskis with the correct year: On 26 February ______, following the resignation of Ivars Godmanis, President Valdis Zatlers nominated Dombrovskis to succeed Godmā€¦
  70. Complete the sentence about Evika Siliņa with the correct year: In the ______ Latvian parliamentary election, Siliņa ran as a candidate of the Zatlers' Reform Party in Riga, but was not elected.
  71. Complete the sentence about Ivars Godmanis with the correct year: On 18 June ______ he suffered head injuries in a car accident when his official limousine was involved in a collision with a small busā€¦
  72. Complete the sentence about Ivars Godmanis with the correct year: On 19 September ______ he replaced Roger Taylor on drums during Queen + Paul Rodgers' performance of "All Right Now" at a concert in Rā€¦
  73. Complete the sentence about Politics of Latvia with the correct year: After almost three years of deliberations, Latvia finalized a citizenship and naturalization law in summer ______.
  74. Complete the sentence about Politics of Latvia with the correct year: In February ______, the Council of Europe granted Latvia membership.
  75. Complete the sentence about President of Latvia with the correct year: For example, after the death of Jānis Čakste, Pauls KalniņŔ, the speaker of the Saeima, was acting president briefly in ______ unā€¦
  76. Complete the sentence about President of Latvia with the correct year: Zemgals refused to run for a second term, and the 3rd Saeima elected Alberts Kviesis as president on 9 April ______, who was sworā€¦
  77. Complete the sentence about President of Latvia with the correct year: Kviesis was re-elected as president of Latvia by the 4th Saeima on 4 April ______, and repeated his oath on April 11.
  78. Complete the sentence about President of Latvia with the correct year: After the restoration of the independence of the Republic of Latvia in ______, a separate post of President of Latvia was not creā€¦
  79. Complete the sentence with the correct year: From 4 May ______ after adopting the Declaration of the Restoration of Independence of the Republic.
  80. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Latvia with the correct year: After the ______ Latvian coup d'Ć©tat by Prime Minister of Latvia Kārlis Ulmanis, Satversme was suspended and government assumeā€¦
  81. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Latvia with the correct year: In ______ Latvian SSR was established by occupying Soviet Union forces and a parliament called the "People's Saeima of Latvia"ā€¦
  82. Complete the sentence about Latvian lats with the correct year: Thus both wages and prices were gradually raised to devalue the lats from June to November ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Bank of Latvia with the correct year: On 7 September ______, the Constitutional Assembly adopted the Law on the Establishment of the Bank of Latvia, which granted its issuaā€¦
  84. Complete the sentence about Bank of Latvia with the correct year: The Bank's interim statutes were approved on 19 September ______ by the Cabinet of Ministers, with its initial capital set at 10 milliā€¦
  85. Complete the sentence about Bank of Latvia with the correct year: On 23 April ______, the Saeima approved a permanent Statute of the Bank of Latvia, signed by President Jānis Čakste on 2 July.
  86. Complete the sentence about Bank of Latvia with the correct year: On 17 June ______, Latvia was occupied and was incorporated into the USSR on 5 August.
  87. Complete the sentence about Bank of Latvia with the correct year: On 2 March ______, the Latvian SSR Supreme Council passed the Law "On Banks" and the decision "On the Bank of Latvia".
  88. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Latvia with the correct year: Latvia joined the European Union as a full member on 1 May ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Latvia with the correct year: The establishment of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Korea and Latvijas Republika began on ______-10-22.
  90. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Latvia with the correct year: Iceland was the first country to recognise the independence of Latvia in August ______.
  91. Complete the sentence about Economy of Latvia with the correct year: In ______ Latvia achieved GDP growth by 5.5% and thus was again among the fastest growing economies in the European Union.
  92. Complete the sentence about Economy of Latvia with the correct year: After attaining independence in ______, Latvia lost its status as an advanced manufacturing hub.
  93. Complete the sentence about Latvian National Armed Forces with the correct year: For anti-tank weapons, in ______ the army received the Austrian 47 mm Cannone da 47/32 anti-tank cannons, which were reā€¦
  94. Complete the sentence about Latviaā€“Lithuania relations with the correct year: The border between the possessions of Lithuania and Livonia, which settled over time, is shown by the treaty of ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Latviaā€“Lithuania relations with the correct year: From the late 18th century until ______, all of Latvia and most of Lithuania were ruled by the Russian Empire.
  96. Complete the sentence about Latviaā€“Lithuania relations with the correct year: Since ______, there have been embassies of Lithuania in Riga and Latvian embassies in Kaunas.
  97. Complete the sentence about Latviaā€“United States relations with the correct year: The United States established diplomatic relations with Latvia on July 28, ______.
  98. Complete the sentence about Latviaā€“United States relations with the correct year: Legation in Riga was officially established on November 13, ______, and served as the headquarters for U.S. representaā€¦
  99. Complete the sentence about Latviaā€“United States relations with the correct year: The Soviet invasion forced the closure of the legation on September 5, ______, but Latvian representation in the Uniteā€¦
  100. Complete the sentence about Latviaā€“United States relations with the correct year: Following the Dissolution of the USSR, Latvia and the United States re-established diplomatic relations on September 5ā€¦

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