Correct Answer : Haiti
On January 1st 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, an African-born ex-slave could declare Haiti independent. It was the first black republic in the world and the first country in the Western hemisphere to abolish slavery completely.
Correct Answer : Montenegro
An independence referendum was held in Montenegro on 21 May 2006
Correct Answer : China
Correct Answer : Mein Kampf
Correct Answer : Germany
The Ottonian dynasty was a dynasty of German Kings.
Correct Answer : Pepin the Short
He was the first of the Carolingians to become King.
Correct Answer : Leonardo Bruni
Bruni's 'History of the Florentine People' was widely imitated by humanist historians for two centuries after its official publication by the Florentine Signoria in 1442. This edition makes it available for the first time in English translation.
Correct Answer : 1983
Correct Answer : 1945
Correct Answer : 1939
The Abyssinian war encouraged the remilitarization of the Rhineland in conspicuous disregard of the Treaty of Versailles. This was the first in a series of provocative acts culminating in the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and the beginning of the Second World War.