People in History
What was the name of the man who brought the Protestant Reformation to Switzerland?
Ulrich Zwingli
Finland is known as the Land of a ___________.
Thousand Lakes
The Netherlands fought for independence from Spain in the_______?
Eighty Years' War
Who was the German chancellor who ordered the invasion of Poland, beginning World War II?
Adolf Hitler
In the Netherlands, the Dutch built __________,dam-like water barriers made of earth and stone.
Dikes
An English navigator who sailed on behalf of the Netherlands to North America was _______________?
Henry Hudson
The three Baltic states are Latvia, Lithuania, and__________?
Estonia
The Great Famine happened in ________________under Joseph Stalin's leadership.
Ukraine
World War I was fought from ________to 1918.
1914
The point on a mountain or in polar regions beyond which trees cannot grow is the____________ ?
tree line
Who was the communist leader of Yugoslavia?
Josip Broz Tito
What is one of the world's northernmost towns called?
Longyearbyen
Who was the Polish leader who started the labor union Solidarity to stand against Communist oppression?
Lech Wałęsa
The United States and the United Kingdom provided food and other supplies to ___________ Berlin in the Berlin Airlift.
West
Europe's largest region of continuously level land is the_______________ ?
European Plain
What was the name of the man whose preaching brought reformation to Bohemia?
John Huss
Reykjavík is the capital of________________?
Iceland
Protestant and Catholic forces fought throughout Europe during the 1600s in the_______________?
Thirty Years' War
The imprisonment and killing of millions of Jewish people and others during World War II was called the ______________?
Holocaust
Europe's largest glacier is the______________ Glacier.
Vatna
Who published a Finnish translation of the New Testament?
Mikael Agricola
The land of the Sami is known as __________.
Sápmi
The treaty that ended World War I was the Treaty of______________?
Versailles
The arc-shaped mountain range in Eastern Europe is the____________ Mountains.
Carpathian