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1. The bankruptcy of one man' s country due to his assistance of the colonies in the American Revolution forced a king with this regnal name to call the Estates-General

2. Eight protestors were crushed to death in this European country' s capital in a 1962protest against the OAS, which launched a coup in one of itscolonies

3. Another cause of this war was an edited letter between the ambassador of one country in this war and Wilhelm I

4. The losing ruler of this conflict was shot and killed during a siege of Fredriksten

5. This leader targeted Jews during the Doctors Plot, but died before he could finish it

6. Leon Uris wrote a novel about the headquarters of a resistance movement in this city titled Mila 18

7. Cannons captured during a siege of this city were later cast into bells for StStephen' s Cathedral

8. A member of the Black Hand attempted suicide by jumping into a river in this city that was only 13 centimeters deep

9. Holy Roman Emperor Francis II and Tsar Alexander I took personal command over their forces in this battle that resulted in the Treaty of Pressburg and the collapse of the Third Coalition

10. In the year 1000, Stephen the First became this country' s first king, establishing the Árpád dynasty

11. In this battle, some troops on the winning side weaponized the lead-covered mallets they' d used to build their fortifications

12. Prominent critic of IslamAyaan Hirsi Ali lied to get asylum in this country, where in 2004 Mohammed Bouyeri assassinated the director of 'Submission,' filmmaker Theo Van Gogh'

13. This politician gained territory to the north by pushing through the Gastein Convention

14. Despite an armistice forced by the First Battle of Custoza, this man fought with varying success while outnumbered at Luino and Morazzone before retreating to Switzerland

15. FTP Red Square and the Kremlin are in what most populous Russian city

16. Another work by this figure incorporates his previous work Love and Responsibility and declares the position outlined in Humane Vitae to be correct

17. The seventh pope of this name was born Hildebrand and the first sent Augustine to England to spread Christianity

18. During one event in this country, a song by banned musician Zeca Afonso was used as a signal to begin military operations

19. that treaty ended the War of the Polish Succession

20. The Milice (mih-LEECE) secret police terrorized this country' s citizens

21. This man defeated an invasion by a neighboring kingdom at the Battle of Amblève

22. Checkpoint Charlie was a crossing point through this site

23. The signing of this treaty wasdelayed by the actions of Lennart Torstenson in the so-called Hannibal War

24. It added Calvinism to the acceptable religions a German prince could choose, expanding the earlier Peace of Augsburg

25. A supplement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, people like Pal Maleter andImre Nagy led a movement to deaffiliate with this organization