Modern European History in 19th to 21st Century
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Question: What event caused the end of the French Third Republic?
Answer: The Defeat of France by Germany in 1940
Question: From which country did Belgium gain independence in 1831?
Answer: Netherlands
Question: Name the Russian leader prior to Vladimir Putin.
Answer: Boris Yeltsin
Question: Who was the Prime Minister of France during the last two years of the First World War?
Answer: Georges Clemenceau
Question: By what name is the four month period in 1968 known in Czechoslovakia where political liberalisation existed during an era of Soviet Union domination?
Answer: The Prague Spring
Question: Up to 1962, the headquaters of the French Foreign Legion had been in which country for over 100 years?
Answer: Algeria
Question: By what name is the Yugoslav communist leader and statesman Josip Broz better known?
Answer: Marshal Tito
Question: Which country’s second empire began with the conquest of Algeria in 1830?
Answer: France
Question: Who in 1968, led the Czechoslovakian government in relaxing state control of industry and allowing freedom of speech against the will of the Soviet Union?
Answer: Alexandr Dubcek
Question: The Grand Duchy of Finland belonged to which other country between 1809 and 1917?
Answer: Russia
Question: Which Empire declared war on Russia in 1853? Their resulting defeat gave Russia control of the Black Sea.
Answer: The Ottoman Empire