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  1. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Post-war, it was reintegrated into Czechoslovakia, which fell under Communist rule in ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Slovakia with the correct year: The Prague Spring of ______ briefly liberalized politics until the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.
  3. Complete the sentence about Cyril and Methodius with the correct year: In ______, Pope Leo XIII introduced their feast into the calendar of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.
  4. Complete the sentence about Cyril and Methodius with the correct year: In ______, the first Slav pope, Pope John Paul II declared them co-patron saints of Europe, together with Benedict of Nursia.
  5. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Hungary with the correct year: From ______, territories connected to the Hungarian crown were incorporated into Austria-Hungary under the name of Lands of the Cr…
  6. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Hungary with the correct year: The monarchy ended with the deposition of the last king Charles IV in ______, after which Hungary became a republic.
  7. Complete the sentence about Battle of Mohács with the correct year: The Battle of Mohács took place on 29 August ______ near Mohács, in the Kingdom of Hungary.
  8. Complete the sentence about Battle of Mohács with the correct year: The aftermath saw the partition of Hungary between the Ottoman Empire, the Habsburg monarchy, and the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom in _…
  9. Complete the sentence about Battle of Mohács with the correct year: In ______, the weakened and old King Vladislaus II faced a major peasant rebellion led by György Dózsa, which was ruthlessly crushed…
  10. Complete the sentence about Battle of Mohács with the correct year: After the Dózsa Rebellion, the brutal suppression of the peasants greatly aided the ______ Turkish invasion as the Hungarians were n…
  11. Complete the sentence about Battle of Mohács with the correct year: After Suleiman I came to power in Constantinople in ______, the High Porte made the Hungarians at least one and possibly two offers…
  12. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Hungary with the correct year: Following the defeat of the Ottomans in the Great Turkish War, the Ottomans recognized the loss of the Ottoman Hungary by the Treaty…
  13. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Hungary with the correct year: From ______, after the death of King Matthias of Hungary, royal power declined in Hungary, and the Black Army of Hungary was disbande…
  14. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Hungary with the correct year: In ______, Hungary was invaded by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
  15. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Hungary with the correct year: The Sultan launched an attack against the Kingdom of Hungary, defeating its smaller army at the Battle of Mohács in ______, during wh…
  16. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Pressburg with the correct year: As a minor compensation, the Austrian Empire annexed the Electorate of Salzburg, which had been under Habsburg rule since ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: Maria Theresa started her 40-year reign when her father, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, died on 20 October ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: Charles VI paved the way for her accession with the Pragmatic Sanction of ______ and spent his entire reign securing it through interna…
  19. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: Little more than a year after her birth, Maria Theresa was joined by a sister, Maria Anna, and another one, named Maria Amalia, was bor…
  20. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: Leopold Clement of Lorraine was first considered to be the appropriate suitor, and he was supposed to visit Vienna and meet the Archduc…
  21. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: In ______, he betrothed her to Charles of Spain and her sister, Maria Anna, to Philip of Spain.
  22. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: The couple were married on 12 February ______ at the Augustinian Church in Vienna.
  23. Complete the sentence about Ľudovít Štúr with the correct year: Štúr was an organiser of the Slovak volunteer campaigns during the Hungarian Revolution of ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Ľudovít Štúr with the correct year: From January to September ______, he temporarily interrupted his studies due to a lack of finances, and returned to Uhrovec, where he wo…
  25. Complete the sentence about Ľudovít Štúr with the correct year: On 17 December ______, he was elected secretary of the Czech-Slav Society at the Lýceum.
  26. Complete the sentence about Ľudovít Štúr with the correct year: In May ______, Ľudovít Štúr persuaded Jozef Miloslav Hurban to become involved in the Slovak national movement.
  27. Complete the sentence about Ľudovít Štúr with the correct year: In April ______, the Czech-Slav Society was banned due to a commotion between students at the Lýceum.
  28. Complete the sentence about Anton Bernolák with the correct year: Holy Trinity Chapel, popularly called Anton Bernolák's Chapel, in Nové Zámky, Slovakia, was built in ______ in the Baroque style.
  29. Complete the sentence about Matica slovenská with the correct year: The position and activity of Slovak Matica is regulated by Act no. 68/______ Coll. on the Slovak Matica as amended and the Statutes…
  30. Complete the sentence about Matica slovenská with the correct year: In ______, it was confiscated by Hungarian state and became property of FEMKE.
  31. Complete the sentence about Austria-Hungary with the correct year: Following the ______ reforms, the Austrian and Hungarian states were co-equal in power.
  32. Complete the sentence about Austria-Hungary with the correct year: Austria-Hungary was one of the Central Powers in World War I, which began with an Austro-Hungarian war declaration on the Kingdom of…
  33. Complete the sentence about Magyarization with the correct year: The nationalists thus initially supported the policy "One country – one language – one nation" during the Kossuth-led Revolution of ___…
  34. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he began studying construction engineering in Prague.
  35. Complete the sentence about Milan Rastislav Štefánik with the correct year: In ______, he transferred his studies to Charles University, where he attended lectures in astronomy, physics, optics, mathe…
  36. Complete the sentence about Milan Rastislav Štefánik with the correct year: In ______, he went to Paris to find a job in astronomy with a recommendation from a Czech professor who was known in Paris.
  37. Complete the sentence with the correct year: A cook at the estate, she met Masárik and they married on 15 August ______.
  38. Complete the sentence about Czechoslovak Legion with the correct year: On 5 August ______, the Russian Stavka authorized the formation of a battalion recruited from Czechs and Slovaks in Russia.
  39. Complete the sentence about Czechoslovak Legion with the correct year: In early ______, the Družina was reorganized as the 1st Czecho-Slovak Rifle Regiment.
  40. Complete the sentence about Pittsburgh Agreement with the correct year: The Pittsburgh Agreement was a memorandum of understanding completed on 31 May ______, between members of Czech and Slovak expat…
  41. Complete the sentence about Pittsburgh Agreement with the correct year: Masaryk was elected the first president of Czechoslovakia in November ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Pittsburgh Agreement with the correct year: By September ______, it was evident that the forces of the Habsburg monarchy, the rulers of Austria-Hungary, would be defeated b…
  43. Complete the sentence about Czechoslovakia with the correct year: Following the Munich Agreement in ______, the Sudetenland was annexed by Nazi Germany while the Second Czechoslovak Republic was forme…
  44. Complete the sentence about Czechoslovakia with the correct year: In ______, the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was proclaimed while the Slovak Republic was administered separately and Car…
  45. Complete the sentence about Czechoslovakia with the correct year: The Communist Party seized power in a coup in ______ and afterward, Czechoslovakia was part of the Eastern Bloc with a planned economy…
  46. Complete the sentence about Czechoslovakia with the correct year: A period of political liberalization in ______, the Prague Spring, ended when the Soviet Union, assisted by other Warsaw Pact countrie…
  47. Complete the sentence about Czechoslovakia with the correct year: On 31 December ______, Czechoslovakia split peacefully into the two sovereign states of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
  48. Complete the sentence about Andrej Hlinka with the correct year: In ______, he was elected parson in Ružomberok against the wishes of his Hungarian bishop Sándor Párvy.
  49. Complete the sentence about Andrej Hlinka with the correct year: In the Hungarian parliamentary elections of ______, he supported Slovak candidate Vavro Šrobár and featured in favor of the Slovak nati…
  50. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 27 June ______ he was imprisoned and later convicted of sedition.
  51. Complete the sentence about Andrej Hlinka with the correct year: The Slovak People's Party was separated from the Slovak National Party in ______.
  52. Complete the sentence about Slovak People's Party with the correct year: The party hierarchy reacted in November ______ by asking its only MP, František Skyčák, to sign a testimony against the Slovak…
  53. Complete the sentence about Slovak People's Party with the correct year: Skyčák refused and on 5 December ______, he published a declaration of a new political party.
  54. Complete the sentence about Slovak People's Party with the correct year: On 19 July ______, the SĽS became a separate political party with Hlinka as chairman and Ferdiš Juriga and Skyčák amongst its l…
  55. Complete the sentence about Jozef Tiso with the correct year: After the war, in ______, he was convicted of treason and executed in Bratislava.
  56. Complete the sentence about Jozef Tiso with the correct year: In ______, his remains were buried in the canonical crypt of the Cathedral in Nitra, Slovakia.
  57. Complete the sentence about Slovak Republic with the correct year: In ______, the country joined the Axis when its leaders signed the Tripartite Pact.
  58. Complete the sentence about Slovak Republic with the correct year: Internal opposition to the government's policies culminated in the Slovak National Uprising in ______, itself triggered by the Nazi G…
  59. Complete the sentence about Slovak Republic with the correct year: The Slovak Republic was abolished after the Soviet conquest in ______, and its territory was reintegrated into the recreated Third Cz…
  60. Complete the sentence about Vojtech Tuka with the correct year: After the dissolution of that university in ______, he worked as an editor in Bratislava.
  61. Complete the sentence about Vojtech Tuka with the correct year: After the founding of Czechoslovakia in late ______, he joined the autonomist Slovak People's Party.
  62. Complete the sentence about Vojtech Tuka with the correct year: In ______, he was elected to the Presidium of the Countrywide Christian Socialist Party as nominee of the Slovak section.
  63. Complete the sentence about Slovak National Uprising with the correct year: After 60 days of fighting, the uprising ended on 28 October ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Slovak National Uprising with the correct year: Without surrendering, the insurgents switched to pure partisan fighting, which they continued until the Red Army liberated S…
  65. Complete the sentence about Slovak National Uprising with the correct year: After the communist takeover in Czechoslovakia in ______, the Slovak National Uprising underwent strong reinterpretations.
  66. Complete the sentence about Slovak Socialist Republic with the correct year: After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in ______ liberalisation reforms were halted and then reversed.
  67. Complete the sentence about Slovak Socialist Republic with the correct year: As from 1 January ______, the Slovak Republic became an independent state named Slovakia.
  68. Complete the sentence about Prague Spring with the correct year: Novotný's attempt at restructuring the economy, the ______ New Economic Model, spurred increased demand for political reform as well.
  69. Complete the sentence about Velvet Revolution with the correct year: The ______ event sparked a series of demonstrations from 17 November to late December and turned into an anti-communist demonstrati…
  70. Complete the sentence about Velvet Revolution with the correct year: On 10 December, President Gustáv Husák appointed the first largely non-communist government in Czechoslovakia since ______, and res…
  71. Complete the sentence about Velvet Revolution with the correct year: Alexander Dubček was elected speaker of the federal parliament on 28 December and Václav Havel the president of Czechoslovakia on 2…
  72. Complete the sentence about Public Against Violence with the correct year: After riot police cracked down on a student demonstration in Prague on the 17 November ______ a growing series of demonstrati…
  73. Complete the sentence about Public Against Violence with the correct year: Protests spread across Slovakia in November ______ with branches of Public Against Violence being founded in many towns.
  74. Complete the sentence about Dissolution of Czechoslovakia with the correct year: In March ______, with pressure from Adolf Hitler, the First Slovak Republic was created as a satellite state of Germany…
  75. Complete the sentence about Vladimír Mečiar with the correct year: Mečiar was born in Zvolen in ______ as the eldest of four boys.
  76. Complete the sentence about Vladimír Mečiar with the correct year: In ______ the political landscape of the Czech Republic and Slovakia started to develop and many new political parties were formed, m…
  77. Complete the sentence about Vladimír Mečiar with the correct year: As a result, Mečiar and Klaus became the prime ministers of two independent states on 1 January ______.
  78. Complete the sentence about Vladimír Mečiar with the correct year: After eight members of the parliament left the HZDS in March ______, Mečiar lost his parliamentary majority.
  79. Complete the sentence about Michal Kováč with the correct year: Kováč was born in the village of Ľubiša in then Czechoslovakia in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Michal Kováč with the correct year: In early ______, he was one of the founders and the vice-chairman of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia.
  81. Complete the sentence about Michal Kováč with the correct year: As such, he was elected as a deputy to the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia in ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about Rudolf Schuster with the correct year: In the presidential elections of April ______, in which he sought re-election, Schuster was defeated.
  83. Complete the sentence about Rudolf Schuster with the correct year: In ______, Schuster founded the centre-left Party of Civic Understanding.
  84. Complete the sentence about Rudolf Schuster with the correct year: In ______, he received honorary citizenship from Miskolc, as recognition of the good cooperation between the city and Košice during h…
  85. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In late ______, he was one of the authors of the Constitution of Slovakia.
  86. Complete the sentence about Ivan Gašparovič with the correct year: Consulate in November ______, Gašparovič was asked by Mečiar to head a commission to investigate the background of the affair, but th…
  87. Complete the sentence about Andrej Kiska with the correct year: Kiska moved to the United States in ______, one year after the Velvet Revolution.
  88. Complete the sentence about Andrej Kiska with the correct year: As none of candidates got more than 50% of votes, Kiska and Fico progressed to a presidential run-off vote on 29 March ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Mikuláš Dzurinda with the correct year: Dzurinda was born on 4 February ______ in the eastern Slovak village of Spišský Štvrtok.
  90. Complete the sentence about Mikuláš Dzurinda with the correct year: Following the ______ general election, won by Vladimír Mečiar, he returned to the opposition as a member of the parliament.
  91. Complete the sentence about Mikuláš Dzurinda with the correct year: Dzurinda became its spokesman, and later, on 4 July ______, its chairman.
  92. Complete the sentence about Robert Fico with the correct year: First elected to parliament in ______, he was appointed the following year to the Czechoslovak delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly o…
  93. Complete the sentence about Robert Fico with the correct year: Following his party's victory in the ______ parliamentary election, he formed his first Cabinet, having secured 29.1% of the vote and 50…
  94. Complete the sentence about Iveta Radičová with the correct year: In ______, she was appointed Minister of Labor, Social Affairs, and Family.
  95. Complete the sentence about Iveta Radičová with the correct year: Iveta Karafiátová was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, on 7 December ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Eduard Heger with the correct year: Heger was born in ______ in Bratislava to parents employed in culture.
  97. Complete the sentence about Eduard Heger with the correct year: In ______, Heger graduated in Trade and Management at the University of Economics in Bratislava.
  98. Complete the sentence about Direction – Social Democracy with the correct year: Founded by Fico in ______ as a split from the post-communist Party of the Democratic Left, Smer initially defined itself…
  99. Complete the sentence about Direction – Social Democracy with the correct year: Founded in ______, the party became known for the leadership of Alexander Dubček, and Direction adopted the name Social…
  100. Complete the sentence about Direction – Social Democracy with the correct year: In the ______ Slovak parliamentary election, the party won 29.1% of the popular vote and 50 of 150 seats.

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