Pre + Kyivan Rus
Christianity was introduced in Kyivan Rus in 988 AD by Prince…
Volodymyr the Great
King Danylo of Halych founded this city in 1256.
Lviv
Kozak (Cossack), a term that denotes peasants and townspeople-turned-frontiersmen, who eventually formed a military formation and started to fight multiple enemies to protect what’s currently Ukrainian territory, is a Turkic word for ... (give one of the two options)
Free man / guard
During WWI, Ukrainians found themselves fighting against their fellow countrymen because they belonged to which two empires?
Russian and Austro-Hungarian / Hapsburg
When and where did the Orange Revolution take place?
2004 / Kyiv
In two words, describe the two most important characteristics of the Trypillian society in terms of economy and gender dynamics.
Agrarian and matriarchal
The Halych-Volyn (Galicia-Volhynia) Principality became a direct inheritor-state of Kyivan Rus after which event in 1240 that led to Kyiv's demise?
The Mongol invasion
The Kozak community, the place where the lived, is known as the Zaporozhian …
Sich
Who was the main ideologist behind the 1917 October / Bolshevik Revolution in the Russian Empire?
Vladimir Lenin
Viktor Yushchenko, a banker and democratic / pro-Western presidential candidate running against the corrupt eastern-Ukrainian pro-Russian governor Viktor Yanukovych, was ________ right before the election.
poisoned (by dioxide)
Landmarks, such the Kyivan Monsterty of the Caves, St. Sophia Cathedral, the First Slavic Library, the Golden Gates of Kyiv, among others, were built during the reign of Prince … , also known as the “the father-in-law of Europe.”
Yaroslav the Wise
In 1385 a formal Union of Krevo linked the royal dynasties of Poland and which other country… , eventually resulting in the Commonwealth between those two medieval eastern/northern European powers?
Lithuania
In 1654, Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, one of the greatest Kozak leaders, signed an ill-fated agreement with ..., seeking protectorate against the Poles.
Muscovy Tsar
The ruthless tyrant and dictator Joseph Stalin stood behind the artificially orchestrated famine in Ukraine in 1932-33, starving to death from 4-7 million Ukrainians, an event, equivalent to the Holocaust, known as the …
The Holodomor
The Revolution of Dignity, or the so-called Euromaidan, started after President Yanukovych, the most corrupt and criminal president of Ukraine of all times, began advocating for a trade union with Russia instead of signing a promised association agreement with ... ?
The European Union
Name one of the three nomadic tribes that populated the territory of present-day Ukraine from ca. 2000 BC to 500 AD?
Cimmerians / Scythians / Sarmatians
Beginning from the late 15th century, after the establishment of Crimean Khanate, who regularly raided Kyiv and other Ukrainian territories/cities, attacking from the south?
Tatars
Trying to defy Russian rule and organize an uprising against Russian tsardom, Hetman Ivan Mazepa sided with … against the Russian Tsar Peter I in 1709.
Sweden / King Charles XII of Sweden
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, in attempt to reform the decaying empire, pursued which two important social policies that today have become English words?
Glasnost and perestroika
More than 100 people who were killed during the 2014 Revolution of Dignity by the governmental riot police unit and Russian snipers are known and commemorated today as …
The "Heavenly Hundred"
While Kyiv, the capital of the ancient Slavic State, the Kyivan Rus, was founded in the late 6th century AD, the first reference to Moscow (believed to be founded by Yuri Dolgoruky, son of Kyivan Prince Volodymyr Monomakh) goes back only to which year?
1147
With the weakening of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by the early sixteenth century, which country began to exert more and more control over Ukrainian lands?
Poland
Who and when dissolved the Zaporozhian Sich bringing an end to the Kozak era?
Catherine II (the Great) / 1775
What was the name of the person (or what was the name of his government) who proclaimed Ukraine’s independence in 1918 in an attempt to prevent the Bolsheviks (i.e. Communists) from coming to power?
Mykhailo Hrushevsky / Hrushevsky
Why is Russia’s annexation of Crimea (in blatant violation of international law) and military invasion (through the support of local separatist insurgents) in the Donbas all the more ironic in the light of Ukraine’s denuclearization in 1994?
Budapest Memorandum / guarantee of territorial integrity, sovereignty / guarantor-signatories included the USA, the UK, Russia (+ later France and China)