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Soviet and Nazi Occupations, the Singing Revolution and Restoration

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  1. What secret agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in August 1939 placed Estonia in the Soviet sphere of influence?
  2. On which tragic date did the Soviet occupying regime carry out the First Mass Deportation of over 10,000 Estonian civilians in cattle cars to Siberia?
  3. What name is given to the anti-Soviet armed partisan resistance fighters who operated from Estonia's forests after World War II?
  4. What massive Soviet deportation in March 1949 (Operation Priboi) removed over 20,000 rural Estonians to break resistance to forced agricultural collectivization?
  5. What historic massive environmental protest movement in 1987 catalysed the Estonian national independence awakening?
  6. What broad civic mass movement founded by Edgar Savisaar in April 1988 mobilized hundreds of thousands of Estonians in support of perestroika and national rights?
  7. What extraordinary peaceful demonstration on 23 August 1950th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact saw two million people hold hands across 600 km?
  8. On which historic date did the Supreme Council of Estonia adopt the Resolution on the National Independence of Estonia, restoring sovereign statehood?
  9. What foundational legal doctrine guided the restoration of the Republic of Estonia in 1991?
  10. When were the last remaining troops of the Russian Federation completely withdrawn from sovereign Estonian territory?
  11. In which year did the Republic of Estonia simultaneously join both the European Union and NATO?
  12. On 1 January of which year did Estonia become the first former Soviet republic to adopt the Euro as its official currency?

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