History Quiz #788
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Q1. What was the name of the policy making body of the USSR before it broke up?
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Q2. When in 680 CE a part of a nomadic warrior people moved to the northeastern Balkans, defeated the Byzantine army and secured recognition from the Byzantine Empire, that began what?
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Q3. The US War of Independence was in which century?
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Q4. Why did five deaths at strikes in Ådalen, Sweden, in 1931 lead to major demonstrations, a deeply divided national debate, and the publishers of left-wing newspapers being convicted of violations of the Freedom of the Press Act?
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Q5. Saint Therese is associated with which town?
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Q6. A royal edict and a set of 17 laws emancipated Russian serfs in 1861; when were the last provisions made in order to put the freedom fully in place?
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Q7. Deliberate use of concentration camps and starvation for civilians as a military policy marked which of these?
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