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Simple history knowledge #1

General knowledge for people interested in history.
Quiz by dthnggg
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Last updated: January 11, 2024
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First submittedMay 13, 2020
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The most common nickname of the American flag
Stars and stripes
Trade league in the Baltic and North sea during the medieval ages and renaissance
Hanseatic League
Year in which Hitler invaded the Soviet Union
1941
The first man in space
Yuri Gagarin
Military general who became revolutionary emperor of France during the French Revolution
Napoleon Bonaparte
Former name of Istanbul
Constantinople
Term for describing a period of intense anti-communist suspicion from the 1940s - 1950s named after a US Wisconsin senator
McCarthy Era
Islamic religious war
Jihad
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Consul of the Roman Empire who conquered Gaul
Julius Caesar
Alliance between Russia, France and Great Britain during World War I
Triple Entente
Germanic tribes who migrated to England in the 5th century
Saxons
Canal that connects the Mediterranean and Red Sea
Suez Canal
First president of the Russian Republic after the Cold War
Boris Yeltsin
Communist leader of China who enacted the Great Leap Forward
Mao Zedong
Country in Oceania originally used as a penal colony by the British
Australia
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Level 81
Jan 8, 2024
"Saxons"?

"McCarthy Era"?

I feel like those should be acceptable answers (and in the case of the first I think is better than the answer you're looking for).

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Level 52
Jan 9, 2024
Fixed! :)