Contemporary Europe trivia

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• Who led the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution of 1917?Contemporary Europe
• In which year did the Second World War end?Contemporary Europe
• In which year were East and West Germany united into the Federal Republic of Germany?Contemporary Europe
• Which country did Nazi Germany invade in 1939, opening the Second World War?Contemporary Europe
• Who was the victim of the Sarajevo assassination that set off the First World War?Contemporary Europe
• Which German city was split east from west by a wall during the Cold War?Contemporary Europe
• Which common currency is used by many member states of the European Union?Contemporary Europe
• What was the side that stood against Germany, Italy, and Japan in the Second World War called?Contemporary Europe
• In which country did the Allied Normandy landings of 1944 take place?Contemporary Europe
• Which treaty imposed reparations and limits on armaments on Germany after the First World War?Contemporary Europe
• Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1945.Contemporary Europe
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded in 1949.Contemporary Europe
• Yugoslavia broke apart into several independent states in the 1990s.Contemporary Europe
• The phrase Iron Curtain became widely known through a speech by Winston Churchill.Contemporary Europe
• The First World War began in 1939.Contemporary Europe
• The event that opened the Second World War was Germany's invasion of France.Contemporary Europe
• The Berlin Wall was a defensive fortification raised just after the First World War.Contemporary Europe
• The European Union (EU) is a body for political and economic cooperation among European states.Contemporary Europe
• The Treaty of Versailles was concluded to end the Second World War.Contemporary Europe
• The Second World War ended in 1945.Contemporary Europe