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1. The Four PowerAgreement concerned this city, where the Basic Treaty was signed

2. This country' s concept of a 'people' s home' inspired its welfare state which was built under longtime prime ministerTage Erlander (' TA-guh AIR-lahn-dur' )'

3. It was financially supported by Sixtus V

4. This man replaced his rival, the Duke of Luynes, as chief adviser to the king

5. This country' s Sanacja movement deposed Josep Pilsudski

6. Journalist John Reed wrote the book Ten Days That Shook the World about this event, which culminated in the cruiser Aurora beginning an assault on a former palace

7. Advised by Cassiodorus and Boethius, he was succeeded by Athalaric

8. A state in this modern-day country was founded by(*) Rurik, as described in the Primary Chronicle

9. Under the Jagiellon dynasty, this nation helped repel an Ottoman invasion into Europe under John III Sobieski

10. Identify these French Calvinist Protestants

11. This city was added to Austrian territory in the Treaty of Campo Formio, which was signed at the home of its last independent ruler, Ludovico Manin

12. With a northern neighbor, this kingdom adopted one of the world' s first constitutions on May 3, 1791

13. A queen-mother of France fromthis family may have ordered the Bartholomew' s Day massacre

14. At the request of Philip IV' s wife, Jeanne of Navarre,a biography of this ruler' s life was created by Jean de Joinville (jwan-veel)

15. One holder of this position had the Donation ofConstantine forged to negotiate with Pepin the Short

16. During this war, the Heilbronn Alliance was defeated at Nordlingen

17. This man negotiated with Joel Brand in the 'blood for trucks' scandal and misused stockphrases which he called 'winged words'

18. He annexed Portugal in 1581, and built the Escorial

19. This man funded a military corps known as the streltsy, which led to the annexations of Kazan and Astrakhan

20. This country was the last Western republic to allow women tovote, and its 'Restoration and Regeneration' period followed the creation of a certain provision in the Congress of Vienna'

21. Native son Lucky Luciano was returned to this island in return for his help assisting the American invasion of this island, codenamed Operation Husky, during which rival commanders Bernard Montgomery and George Patton raced to capture cities such as Palermo and Messina

22. This ruler dispatched a Governor who executed men like the Count of Egmont after establishing the 'Council of Blood'

23. He ordered Joachim Murat to capture some cannons and then defeated rebels using a 'whiff of grapeshot' during a coup attempt on 13 Vendemiaire [vahn-dey-MYER]'

24. This ruler bankrolled Magellan' s expedition to circumnavigate the earth

25. Pope John XXII refused to recognize the election of a man with this regnal name as Holy Roman Emperor