History and Politics

History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Switzerland with the correct year: In the wake of the French Revolution, Switzerland fell to a French invasion in ______ and was reformed into the Helvetic Repub…
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Switzerland with the correct year: The history of Switzerland since ______ has been largely one of success and prosperity.
  3. Complete the sentence about Old Swiss Confederacy with the correct year: The Swiss Confederacy fell to a French invasion in ______, after which it became the short-lived Helvetic Republic.
  4. Complete the sentence about Old Swiss Confederacy with the correct year: King Rudolf I added large amounts of territory in Switzerland and Swabia to his domain, and sieged down Bern in ______ to enfor…
  5. Complete the sentence about Old Swiss Confederacy with the correct year: The Burgundian Wars prompted a further enlargement of the confederacy; Fribourg and Solothurn were accepted in ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Federal Charter of 1291 with the correct year: A treaty of alliance from ______ between the cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden, the Charter is one of a series of allian…
  7. Complete the sentence about Federal Charter of 1291 with the correct year: The Charter was probably intended to ensure legal certainty after the death of Rudolf I of Habsburg on 15 July ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Federal Charter of 1291 with the correct year: The charter of ______ became important in the historiography of Switzerland only in the late 19th century.
  9. Complete the sentence about Rütli oath with the correct year: The coin legend dates the event to ______, and the three oath-takers are named as Wilhelm Tell von Ure, Stouffacher von Schwytz and Erni v…
  10. Complete the sentence about Rütli oath with the correct year: Impersonations of the Three Tells in historical costume played a role during the Swiss peasant war of ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Rütli oath with the correct year: The larger context is that of the communal movement in medieval Europe, which was countered by the imperial Golden Bull of ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about William Tell with the correct year: An equally early account of Tell is found in the Tellenlied, a song composed in the 1470s, with its oldest extant manuscript copy dating…
  13. Complete the sentence about William Tell with the correct year: Aegidius Tschudi of Glarus, writing c. ______, presents an extended version of the legend.
  14. Complete the sentence about William Tell with the correct year: In Tschudi's account, on 18 November ______, Tell visited Altdorf with his young son.
  15. Complete the sentence about William Tell with the correct year: According to Tschudi, Tell fought again against Austria in the ______ Battle of Morgarten.
  16. Complete the sentence about Battle of Morgarten with the correct year: As revenge, men of Schwyz under the leadership of Werner Stauffacher raided Einsiedeln abbey on the night of 6 January ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Swiss mercenaries with the correct year: Until roughly ______, the Swiss had a virtual monopoly on pike-armed mercenary service.
  18. Complete the sentence about Swiss mercenaries with the correct year: After ______ the Swiss pledged themselves to neutrality, other than regarding Swiss soldiers serving in the ranks of the Royal Fren…
  19. Complete the sentence about Swiss mercenaries with the correct year: The Swiss are generally considered to have been surpassed by the Landsknechts after the Battle of Pavia in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Swiss mercenaries with the correct year: With the passing of the amendment to the Swiss Constitution of ______ banning the recruitment of Swiss citizens by foreign states…
  21. Complete the sentence about Swiss Guard with the correct year: Established in ______ under Pope Julius II, it is among the oldest military units in continuous operation and is sometimes called "the wo…
  22. Complete the sentence about Swiss Guard with the correct year: When Cardinal della Rovere became Pope Julius II in ______, he asked the Swiss Diet to provide him with a constant corps of 200 Swiss mer…
  23. Complete the sentence about Swiss Guard with the correct year: In September ______, the first contingent of 150 soldiers departed on foot to Rome, under the command of Kaspar von Silenen.
  24. Complete the sentence about Swiss Guard with the correct year: In ______, Pope Paul III ordered the Swiss Guard to be reinstated and sent Cardinal Ennio Filonardi to oversee recruitment.
  25. Complete the sentence about Reformation in Switzerland with the correct year: After the victory of the Catholic cantons in ______, they proceeded to institute Counter-Reformation policies in some regi…
  26. Complete the sentence about Reformation in Switzerland with the correct year: The first disputation of Zürich of ______ was the breakthrough: the city council decided to implement his reformatory plan…
  27. Complete the sentence about Reformation in Switzerland with the correct year: The last abbess of the Fraumünster, Katharina von Zimmern, turned over the convent including all of its rights and possess…
  28. Complete the sentence about Huldrych Zwingli with the correct year: In his first public controversy in ______, he attacked the custom of fasting during Lent.
  29. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he introduced a new communion liturgy to replace the Mass.
  30. Complete the sentence about Huldrych Zwingli with the correct year: In ______, Zwingli's alliance applied an unsuccessful food blockade on the Catholic cantons.
  31. Complete the sentence about John Calvin with the correct year: John Calvin was born as Jehan Cauvin on 10 July ______, in Noyon, a town in Picardy, a province of the Kingdom of France.
  32. Complete the sentence about John Calvin with the correct year: After a few years of quiet study, Calvin entered the University of Bourges in ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Peace of Westphalia with the correct year: Peace negotiations between France and the Habsburg Emperor began in Cologne in ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Peace of Westphalia with the correct year: In Hamburg, Sweden, France, and the Holy Roman Empire negotiated a preliminary peace in December ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Peace of Westphalia with the correct year: Münster had been, since its re-Catholicism in ______, a strictly mono-denominational community.
  36. Complete the sentence about Helvetic Republic with the correct year: Resistance was strongest in the more traditional Catholic cantons, with armed uprisings breaking out in spring ______ in the centra…
  37. Complete the sentence about Helvetic Republic with the correct year: On 5 March ______, French troops completely overran Switzerland and the Old Swiss Confederation collapsed.
  38. Complete the sentence about Helvetic Republic with the correct year: On 12 April ______, 121 cantonal deputies proclaimed the Helvetic Republic, "One and Indivisible".
  39. Complete the sentence about Helvetic Republic with the correct year: On 14 April ______, a cantonal assembly was called in the canton of Zürich, but most of the politicians from the previous assembly…
  40. Complete the sentence about Congress of Vienna with the correct year: The immediate background was Napoleonic France's defeat and surrender in May ______, which brought an end to 23 years of nearly co…
  41. Complete the sentence about Congress of Vienna with the correct year: The Congress's agreement was signed nine days before Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo on 18 June ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Congress of Vienna with the correct year: The Treaty of Chaumont in ______ had reaffirmed decisions that had been made already and that would be ratified by the more import…
  43. Complete the sentence about Sonderbund War with the correct year: By the Treaty of Vienna of ______, the major powers guaranteed the new Swiss Constitution and had a right to intervene if they all agr…
  44. Complete the sentence about Guillaume-Henri Dufour with the correct year: In ______ Dufour presided over the First Geneva Convention which established the International Red Cross.
  45. Complete the sentence about Guillaume-Henri Dufour with the correct year: In ______, Dufour travelled to Paris to join the École Polytechnique, then a military academy.
  46. Complete the sentence about Guillaume-Henri Dufour with the correct year: In ______, Dufour joined the French Army and was sent to help defend Corfu, in the French Ionian Islands, where he mapped the…
  47. Complete the sentence about Guillaume-Henri Dufour with the correct year: By ______, he had attained the rank of captain, and was awarded the Cross of the Légion d'Honneur for his work repairing forti…
  48. Complete the sentence about Federal Constitution of Switzerland with the correct year: The Constitution was adopted by a referendum on 18 April ______, in which a majority of the people and the canton…
  49. Complete the sentence about Federal Constitution of Switzerland with the correct year: Prior to ______, the Swiss Confederacy was a confederation of independent states, not a federal state; as such it…
  50. Complete the sentence about Federal Constitution of Switzerland with the correct year: Following the French July Revolution in ______, a number of large assemblies were held calling for new cantonal c…
  51. Complete the sentence about Federal Constitution of Switzerland with the correct year: The political crisis of the Regeneration period culminated in the Sonderbund War of November ______.
  52. Complete the sentence about Federal Constitution of Switzerland with the correct year: As a result of the Sonderbund War, Switzerland was transformed into a federal state, with a constitution promulga…
  53. Complete the sentence about Federal Constitution of Switzerland with the correct year: The Federal Constitution was wholly revised for the second time in the 1990s, when the new version was approved b…
  54. Complete the sentence about Federal Constitution of Switzerland with the correct year: The ______ Constitution of Switzerland consists of a preamble and six parts, which together make up 196 articles.
  55. Complete the sentence about International Committee of the Red Cross with the correct year: Back in his home in Geneva, he decided to write a book titled A Memory of Solferino which he published with…
  56. Complete the sentence about International Committee of the Red Cross with the correct year: On 22 August ______, the conference adopted the First Geneva Convention "for the Amelioration of the Conditi…
  57. Complete the sentence about Geneva Conventions with the correct year: The four ______ Geneva Conventions were ratified, in their entirety or with reservations, by 196 countries.
  58. Complete the sentence about Geneva Conventions with the correct year: The ______ Geneva Convention was instituted during a critical period in European political and military history.
  59. Complete the sentence about Red Cross with the correct year: Back at his home in Geneva, he decided to write a book entitled A Memory of Solferino, which he published using his own money in ______.
  60. Complete the sentence about League of Nations with the correct year: In ______, U.S. president Woodrow Wilson won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as the leading architect of the League.
  61. Complete the sentence about Swiss neutrality with the correct year: The Peace of Westphalia in ______ was another important step in the development of Switzerland's neutrality.
  62. Complete the sentence about Swiss neutrality with the correct year: The ______ invasion of Switzerland by the French First Republic culminated in the creation of a satellite state called the Helvetic…
  63. Complete the sentence about Henri Guisan with the correct year: Henri Guisan was born on 21 October ______ in Mézières, in the canton of Vaud, a Protestant part of French-speaking Switzerland.
  64. Complete the sentence about Henri Guisan with the correct year: Upon completing his studies, in ______, he moved to and became a gentleman farmer in the Broye Valley.
  65. Complete the sentence about Henri Guisan with the correct year: Upon entering the Swiss military in ______, Guisan was assigned to the field artillery as a lieutenant.
  66. Complete the sentence about Henri Guisan with the correct year: In ______, Guisan was promoted to major and was transferred to the infantry on the order of the Chief of the General Staff, Theophil Spr…
  67. Complete the sentence about Federal Council with the correct year: The Federal Council was instituted by the ______ Federal Constitution as the "supreme executive and directorial authority of the Conf…
  68. Complete the sentence about Federal Assembly with the correct year: Following the Sonderbund War in ______, the Tagsatzung became responsible for drawing up the Swiss Federal Constitution.
  69. Complete the sentence about Federal Assembly with the correct year: According to the Constitution of ______, the Federal Assembly is "the supreme authority of the Confederation".
  70. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Tagsatzung accepted the draft constitution in June ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Federal Assembly with the correct year: During the month of October ______, elections were organized in the cantons in order to elect the deputies.
  72. Complete the sentence about Federal Assembly with the correct year: On, November 16, ______, Parliament elected the first Federal Council.
  73. Complete the sentence about National Council with the correct year: When the Swiss Confederation was founded in ______, the number of seats was not yet fixed, and was thus determined by the population…
  74. Complete the sentence about National Council with the correct year: Thus, the first National Council, which met in ______, had 111 members.
  75. Complete the sentence about National Council with the correct year: Since ______ women have been entitled to vote and stand in National Council elections.
  76. Complete the sentence about Council of States with the correct year: Since 1 March ______, votes in the Council of States have been conducted electronically, with a tally shown on electronic display b…
  77. Complete the sentence about President of the Swiss Confederation with the correct year: One such example was Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, who – although a member of the Federal Council for 27 years – was p…
  78. Complete the sentence about Swiss People's Party with the correct year: By ______, the coalition of farmers' parties had gained enough influence to get one of their leaders, Rudolf Minger, elected to…
  79. Complete the sentence about Social Democratic Party of Switzerland with the correct year: The SP was founded on 21 October ______ and is the second-largest of the four leading coalition political part…
  80. Complete the sentence about Social Democratic Party of Switzerland with the correct year: In ______, the moderate party platform was replaced at a party conference in Aarau with a Marxist program writ…
  81. Complete the sentence about Social Democratic Party of Switzerland with the correct year: The party's historical archives are hosted today by the Swiss Social Archives, which was founded in ______ by…
  82. Complete the sentence about The Centre with the correct year: In ______, the name changed to the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland.
  83. Complete the sentence about The Centre with the correct year: The CVP of Aargau, however, moved forward before the national party and contested the November ______ elections to the Grand Council of Aa…
  84. Complete the sentence about Green Party of Switzerland with the correct year: The first Green party in Switzerland, MPE, was founded as a local party in ______ in the town of Neuchâtel.
  85. Complete the sentence about Green Party of Switzerland with the correct year: In ______, the Federation of Green Parties changed its name to the Green Party of Switzerland.
  86. Complete the sentence about Green Party of Switzerland with the correct year: In ______, the first two Green members of a cantonal government became members of the Regierungsrat of Bern.
  87. Complete the sentence about Green Party of Switzerland with the correct year: In ______, the Green Party of Switzerland joined the European Federation of Green Parties.
  88. Complete the sentence about Green Party of Switzerland with the correct year: In ______, the centrist wing of the party split away and formed the Green Liberal Party of Switzerland.
  89. Complete the sentence about Switzerland and the European Union with the correct year: In terms of services, the EU's exports to Switzerland amounted to €67.0 billion in ______ while imports from Switz…
  90. Complete the sentence about Switzerland and the European Union with the correct year: In ______, Switzerland and the EU started negotiations about a special relationship outside the EEA.
  91. Complete the sentence about European Free Trade Association with the correct year: After ______ only two founding members remained, namely Norway and Switzerland.
  92. Complete the sentence about European Free Trade Association with the correct year: On 12 January ______, the Convention establishing the European Free Trade Association was initiated in the Golden Hal…
  93. Complete the sentence about European Free Trade Association with the correct year: The United Kingdom and Denmark joined the EEC in ______ and hence ceased to be EFTA members.
  94. Complete the sentence about European Free Trade Association with the correct year: Austria, Sweden, and Finland joined the EU in ______ and thus ceased to be EFTA members.
  95. Complete the sentence about Swiss franc with the correct year: After ______, the different guilders of Southern Germany and Switzerland fragmented under varying rates of depreciation.
  96. Complete the sentence about Swiss National Bank with the correct year: In the ______ revision of the Federal Constitution it was given the task to oversee laws concerning the issuing of banknotes.
  97. Complete the sentence about Swiss National Bank with the correct year: In ______, the Federal Constitution was revised again to entrust the Confederation with sole rights to issue banknotes.
  98. Complete the sentence about Swiss National Bank with the correct year: During 20 April ______, gold from the gold reserves of Italy arrived from Como at the railway station within Chiasso.
  99. Complete the sentence about Swiss banking with the correct year: Bank secrecy in the Swiss region can be traced to the Great Council of Geneva, which outlawed the disclosure of information about the E…
  100. Complete the sentence about Swiss banking with the correct year: In ______, the Congress of Vienna formally established Switzerland's international neutrality, which led to a large capital influx.

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