History vocabulary test (verze B)

Caesar's expedition in 55 BC was the beginning of the Roman ________ of Britain.

1. conqueror
2. conquest
3. quest
4. request

Although they were aided by the Vikings, Saxon ________ against William all failed.

1. invader
2. revolts
3. revolutions
4. rising-up

William felt that he had a better ________ to the throne than Harold and invaded Britain in 1066.

1. claim
2. grant
3. right
4. title

English forces ________ the Spanish Armada in 1588 and thus became a major sea power.

1. defeated
2. killed
3. succeeded
4. won

A large number of American troops stayed in Japan as the Occupation Forces after Japan ________ at the end of World War II.

1. declared
2. recapitulated
3. surrendered
4. surrounded

Many English monasteries were suppressed during the ________ of King Henry VIII.

1. kingdom
2. reign
3. ruler
4. throne

The first contacts between the native ________ of the Americas and Europeans occurred in the late 15th century.

1. citizens
2. humans
3. peoples
4. settlers

Many massacres of both Protestants and Catholics ________ place in Northern Ireland throughout the 17th century.

1. gave
2. held
3. lost
4. took

Legend has it that Oxford University was ________ in 872 by King Alfred the Great.

1. based
2. erected
3. founded
4. introduced

The United States ________ war on Japan in December 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

1. announced
2. claimed
3. declared
4. held