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1. Charles the Simple granted this region as a namesake duchy to the VikingRollo

2. This country suffered through the Years of Lead, during which the Red Brigades assassinated its Prime Minister, Aldo Moro

3. This country lost control of Heligoland and Norway in the Treaty of Kiel, after having long dominated the Kalmar Union, and it was once ruled by Margaret I

4. While campaigning in the Netherlands, this man defeated the Frisians at the Battle of the Boarn, and he supported the patron saint of Germany, Boniface

5. This man successfully annexed the Sudetenland from a neighboring country

6. In this conflict, the losing side primarily used a Chassepot (' SHAS-po' ) rifle which was actually superior to the famous Dreyse needle gun used by the other side'

7. The Battle of Barfleur was part of a war sparked by this ruler' s territorial ambitions, which were opposed by the League of Augsburg

8. The transfer of Yedisan to this ruler and the recognition of this ruler' s annexation of the Crimean Khanate formed part of the Treaty of Jassy

9. In this country, nearly 25,000 children, many of whose parents belonged to the DSE, were placed in 'child towns'

10. Advisors to this monarch included Gregory Orlov and Gregory Potemkin

11. This battle reversed the eastward momentum of Operation Barbarossa

12. One of its leadersclaimed that it was 'proudly alone' in resisting decolonization'

13. The Pragmatic Sanction attempted to legitimate the rule of this queen, who lost the region of Silesia to Frederick the Great

14. This treaty transferred control of a ten-city alliance called the Decapole

15. This battle led to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire

16. This man was nominated as the Bishop of Luçon by Henry IV

17. This battle occurred following the Ulm Campaign, and theHabsburgs were forced to pay 40 million francs to the victors in this battle

18. This ruler was succeeded by Paul

19. This city' s namesake 'roses” are concrete patterns left from mortar shells that were later infused with red resin

20. During this war, the German Condor Legion carried out the bombing of Guernica

21. During his tenure, his monarch faught Denmark, Austria, and France, and he resigned in 1890 after Wilhelm II took the throne

22. As a boy, he organized his playmates and servants, along with German military advisors, to his 'toy army,' which would later from the nucleus of the imperial guard regiments'

23. Widukind led a long guerilla war against him in Saxony

24. The building of that structure in this city was supervised by Erich Honecker, the future leader of a government in this city

25. A leading figure at this gathering' s third session was Saint Charles Borromeo