Italian History and Politics

History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about Umberto II of Italy with the correct year: In ______, he commanded an army group during the brief Italian invasion of France shortly before the French capitulation.
  2. Complete the sentence about Umberto II of Italy with the correct year: In ______, he was promoted to Marshal of Italy but was otherwise inactive as an army commander during much of World War II.
  3. Complete the sentence about Umberto II of Italy with the correct year: In ______, Victor Emmanuel, compromised by his association with Italian fascism and desperate to repair the monarchy's image, tra…
  4. Complete the sentence about Umberto II of Italy with the correct year: The June ______ referendum saw voters voting to abolish the monarchy, and Italy was declared a republic days later.
  5. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Italy with the correct year: The text, which has since been amended sixteen times, was promulgated in an extraordinary edition of Gazzetta Ufficiale on 27 D…
  6. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Italy with the correct year: By ______, most of these territories had been annexed by Yugoslavia, including most of the Julian March and the Dalmatian city…
  7. Complete the sentence about Years of Lead with the correct year: The deadliest single attack of the era was the ______ Bologna Massacre conducted by the neo-fascist Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari, which…
  8. Complete the sentence about Aldo Moro with the correct year: On 16 March ______, he was kidnapped by the far-left terrorist group Red Brigades; he was killed after 55 days of captivity.
  9. Complete the sentence about Aldo Moro with the correct year: Aldo Romeo Luigi Moro was born on 23 September ______ in Maglie, near Lecce, into a family from Ugento in the Apulia region of the Kingdom…
  10. Complete the sentence about Mani pulite with the correct year: In the ______ Italian general election, the DC held on to power when its coalition government kept a small majority, while leftist opposi…
  11. Complete the sentence about Mani pulite with the correct year: In April ______, many industrial figures and politicians from both the government and the opposition were arrested on charges of corrupti…
  12. Complete the sentence about Mani pulite with the correct year: On 25 March ______, the Parliament changed municipal electoral law in favor of a majoritarian system.
  13. Complete the sentence about Mani pulite with the correct year: In new local elections on 6 June ______, the DC lost half of its votes once again; the PSI virtually disappeared.
  14. Complete the sentence about Silvio Berlusconi with the correct year: On 1 August ______, Berlusconi was convicted of tax fraud by the Supreme Court of Cassation.
  15. Complete the sentence about Romano Prodi with the correct year: Prodi was the first left-leaning candidate to finish first in an Italian general election since ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Romano Prodi with the correct year: In ______, Prodi became the founding president of the Democratic Party.
  17. Complete the sentence about Romano Prodi with the correct year: Prodi was born in Scandiano, near Reggio Emilia, in ______; he is the eighth of nine children.
  18. Complete the sentence about Romano Prodi with the correct year: In ______, Prodi married Flavia Franzoni, at that time a student, who later became an economist and university professor.
  19. Complete the sentence about Giorgio Napolitano with the correct year: In the May ______ Italian presidential election, he was elected by the Italian Parliament as president of Italy.
  20. Complete the sentence about Sergio Mattarella with the correct year: Since Giorgio Napolitano died in ______, Mattarella is the only living Italian president.
  21. Complete the sentence about Sergio Mattarella with the correct year: Mattarella was born in Palermo on 23 July ______ into a prominent Sicilian family.
  22. Complete the sentence about Sergio Mattarella with the correct year: In ______, Mattarella graduated with merit with the thesis The Function of Political Direction.
  23. Complete the sentence about Matteo Renzi with the correct year: Renzi was born on 11 January ______ in Florence, the second of four children.
  24. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he left the Cabinet upon his election to the Chamber of Deputies.
  25. Complete the sentence about Enrico Letta with the correct year: Despite securing his position, the election in December ______ of Matteo Renzi as PD secretary brought significant leadership tensions w…
  26. Complete the sentence about Mario Monti with the correct year: Monti studied at the private Leo XIII High School and attended Bocconi University of Milan, where he obtained a degree in economics in __…
  27. Complete the sentence about Mario Monti with the correct year: In ______, Monti was appointed to the Santer Commission, along with Emma Bonino, by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
  28. Complete the sentence about Alcide De Gasperi with the correct year: De Gasperi was born in ______ in Pieve Tesino in Tyrol, now part of the Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige, which had been part…
  29. Complete the sentence about Alcide De Gasperi with the correct year: From ______, De Gasperi was active in the Social Christian movement.
  30. Complete the sentence about Alcide De Gasperi with the correct year: In ______ he joined the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy in Vienna, where he played an important role in the inception of the C…
  31. Complete the sentence about Alcide De Gasperi with the correct year: In ______, he took an active part in student demonstrations in favour of an Italian-language university.
  32. Complete the sentence about Palmiro Togliatti with the correct year: In ______, Togliatti renounced Italian citizenship, and he became a citizen of the Soviet Union; upon his death, a Soviet city was…
  33. Complete the sentence about Palmiro Togliatti with the correct year: In ______, the PCd'I was made illegal, alongside the other parties, by Benito Mussolini's government.
  34. Complete the sentence about Giulio Andreotti with the correct year: Andreotti, the youngest of three children, was born on 14 January ______ in Rome.
  35. Complete the sentence about Bettino Craxi with the correct year: After the war, his father assumed the role of vice-prefect in Milan and then the prefect in Como, where he moved with his family in ___…
  36. Complete the sentence about Bettino Craxi with the correct year: In ______ he was excluded from the Central Committee of the Socialist Party by the new Secretary Francesco De Martino.
  37. Complete the sentence about Politics of Italy with the correct year: Since the end of World War II in ______, Italy has had 69 governments, at an average of one every 1.11 years.
  38. Complete the sentence about Politics of Italy with the correct year: By stating that Italy is a democratic republic, the article solemnly declares the results of the constitutional referendum which to…
  39. Complete the sentence about Senate of the Republic with the correct year: Until a Constitutional change on 9 February ______, the Senate was elected for six-year terms.
  40. Complete the sentence about Senate of the Republic with the correct year: The law was rejected on 4 December ______ by a referendum, leaving the Senate unchanged.
  41. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The ______ Constitution sets the presidential term at seven years.
  42. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Italy with the correct year: Alcide De Gasperi became the first prime minister of the Italian Republic in ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Italy with the correct year: The first prime minister was Camillo Benso di Cavour, who was appointed on 23 March ______, but he died on 6 June the same ye…
  44. Complete the sentence about Italian lira with the correct year: In ______, Italy formed part of the Latin Monetary Union in which the lira was set as equal to, among others, the French, Belgian and Sw…
  45. Complete the sentence about Italian lira with the correct year: The U.S. dollar was worth approximately 5.18 Italian lire until ______.
  46. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, the lira was pegged to the U.S. dollar at a rate of $1 = Lit 19.
  47. Complete the sentence about Bank of Italy with the correct year: The Italian government responded in ______ by introducing the fiat and legal tender of paper money.
  48. Complete the sentence about Bank of Italy with the correct year: The institute in ______ was transformed by its director Arturo Osio into the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro.
  49. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Rome with the correct year: The Treaty expired on 23 July ______, after fifty years, as was foreseen.
  50. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Italy with the correct year: Located in Europe, Italy has been considered a major European power since its unification in ______.
  51. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Italy with the correct year: In the context of the ______ liberal revolutions that swept through Europe, an unsuccessful first war of independence was…
  52. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Italy with the correct year: In ______, the Kingdom of Sardinia became an ally of Britain and France in the Crimean War, giving Cavour's diplomacy legi…
  53. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Italy with the correct year: The Kingdom of Sardinia again attacked the Austrian Empire in the Second Italian War of Independence of ______, with the a…
  54. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Italy with the correct year: In ______, Italy allied with Prussia during the Austro-Prussian War, waging the Third Italian War of Independence which al…
  55. Complete the sentence about Italian Armed Forces with the correct year: In ______, under the leadership of Giuseppe Garibaldi, Victor Emmanuel II of the House of Savoy was invited to take the throne a…
  56. Complete the sentence about Carabinieri with the correct year: In ______, they were separated from the Army to become a separate branch of the Italian Armed Forces.
  57. Complete the sentence about Carabinieri with the correct year: The first official account of the use of this term to refer to the Carabinieri dates back to 24 June ______.
  58. Complete the sentence about Guardia di Finanza with the correct year: In ______, the "Investigative Tax Police" was set up as a specialized branch of the Royal Financial Guard.
  59. Complete the sentence about Italian general election, 2022 with the correct year: Early general elections were held in Italy on 25 September ______.
  60. Complete the sentence about Italian general election, 2022 with the correct year: In the ______ Italian general election, held on 4 March, no political group or party won an outright majority, resulti…
  61. Complete the sentence about Italian general election, 2018 with the correct year: Amid the ______ Italian government crisis, the second Conte government was replaced by a national unity government hea…
  62. Complete the sentence about Italian general election, 2018 with the correct year: Following defeat in December ______, Renzi stepped down as Prime Minister and was replaced by Minister of Foreign Affa…
  63. Complete the sentence about Italian general election, 2013 with the correct year: In April ______ a grand coalition was formed, consisting of Italy Common Good, the Berlusconi coalition and the centri…
  64. Complete the sentence about Italian general election, 2013 with the correct year: Following the European sovereign debt crisis, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigned from his position in November…
  65. Complete the sentence about Italian general election, 2013 with the correct year: In December ______, Berlusconi announced his intention to run for prime minister for a sixth time.
  66. Complete the sentence about Italian general election, 2008 with the correct year: On 24 January ______ Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi lost a vote of confidence in the Senate by a vote of 161 to…
  67. Complete the sentence about Italian general election, 2006 with the correct year: Prodi's candidacy was confirmed by a national primary election, held on 16 October ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Italian general election, 1948 with the correct year: General elections were held in Italy on 18 April ______ to elect the first Parliament of the Italian Republic.
  69. Complete the sentence about Christian Democracy with the correct year: In December ______ Christian Democrat Alcide De Gasperi was appointed Prime Minister of Italy.
  70. Complete the sentence about Christian Democracy with the correct year: In May ______ De Gasperi broke decisively with his Communist and Socialist coalition partners under pressure from U.S.
  71. Complete the sentence about Italian Communist Party with the correct year: In the ______ Italian general election, the party obtained 4.6% of the vote and 15 seats in the country's Chamber of Deputies…
  72. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The PSI was disbanded in ______ as a result of the Tangentopoli scandals.
  73. Complete the sentence about Italian Socialist Party with the correct year: During the third congress on 13 January ______ in Parma, it decided to adopt the name of Italian Socialist Party and Filippo…
  74. Complete the sentence about Lega Nord with the correct year: By ______, a total of 40 deputies and 17 senators had left the party while Maroni had instead returned to the party's fold after months of…
  75. Complete the sentence about Brothers of Italy with the correct year: In the ______ Italian general election, the party obtained 2.0% of the vote and won nine seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
  76. Complete the sentence about Democratic Party with the correct year: In the ______ general election the list obtained 31.3% of the vote for the Chamber of Deputies.
  77. Complete the sentence about Mafia with the correct year: Because Sicily was under Islamic rule from 827 to ______, Mafia may have come to Sicilian through Arabic, although the word's origins are uncer…
  78. Complete the sentence about Mafia with the correct year: Giovanni Falcone, an anti-Mafia judge murdered by the Sicilian Mafia in ______, objected to the conflation of Mafia with organized crime in gen…
  79. Complete the sentence about Sicilian Mafia with the correct year: In ______, Mafia turncoat Tommaso Buscetta revealed to anti-mafia Italian magistrate Giovanni Falcone that the term was used by the Si…
  80. Complete the sentence about Sicilian Mafia with the correct year: In ______, Leopoldo Franchetti described the Sicilian Mafia as an "industry of violence".
  81. Complete the sentence about Sicilian Mafia with the correct year: In ______, the Italian sociologist Diego Gambetta described it as a cartel of private protection firms.
  82. Complete the sentence about Camorra with the correct year: The first official use of camorra as a word dates from ______, when a royal decree authorised the establishment of eight gambling houses in N…
  83. Complete the sentence about Camorra with the correct year: At the end of the 17th century in Naples there were ______ hanged, 17 executed leaders, 57 beheaded, 913 condemned to prison.
  84. Complete the sentence about 'Ndrangheta with the correct year: The word 'Ndrangheta was brought to a wider audience by the Calabrian writer Corrado Alvaro in the Corriere della Sera in September _____…
  85. Complete the sentence about Giovanni Falcone with the correct year: Taking Terranova's place was Rocco Chinnici, who was murdered by the Mafia in July ______.
  86. Complete the sentence about Paolo Borsellino with the correct year: Borsellino obtained a degree in law at the University of Palermo, with honours, in ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Maxi Trial with the correct year: Leggio was imprisoned in ______, so he acted through his deputy Salvatore Riina, to whom he eventually handed over control.
  88. Complete the sentence about Maxi Trial with the correct year: In ______, the Corleonesi had Gaetano Badalamenti expelled from the Commission on trumped-up charges of hiding drug revenue.
  89. Complete the sentence about Maxi Trial with the correct year: In April ______, the Corleonesi murdered rival member of the Commission Stefano Bontade, and the Second Mafia War began in earnest.
  90. Complete the sentence about Italian Social Movement with the correct year: In the ______ Italian general election, the neo-fascist party won seven deputies and one senator.
  91. Complete the sentence about Red Brigades with the correct year: The assassination of Moro was a national shock in Italy, as was that of left-wing trade unionist Guido Rossa in January ______.
  92. Complete the sentence about Piazza Fontana bombing with the correct year: On 25 April ______, a bomb exploded at the Fiat booth at a Milan trade fair, in which five people were injured.
  93. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ he was acquitted by the Supreme Court of Cassation for lack of evidence.
  94. Complete the sentence about Italian economic miracle with the correct year: In addition, the creation in ______ of the European Common Market, of which Italy was among the founder members, provided mo…
  95. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, two years after the end of the war, industrialist Lewis H.
  96. Complete the sentence about Marshall Plan with the correct year: Marshall spoke of an urgent need to help the European recovery in his address at Harvard University in June ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Second Italian War of Independence with the correct year: Sardinia mobilised its army on 9 March ______, and Austria mobilized on 9 April.
  98. Complete the sentence about Second Italian War of Independence with the correct year: On 14 January ______, Felice Orsini, an Italian, led an attempt on Napoleon III's life.
  99. Complete the sentence about Second Italian War of Independence with the correct year: Austria mobilised on 9 April ______ and issued an ultimatum on 23 April demanding the complete demobilisation of t…
  100. Complete the sentence about Third Italian War of Independence with the correct year: Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy had been proclaimed King of Italy on 17 March ______ but did not control Venetia or the…

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