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History Test #8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ulrich Zwingli | Brought the Protestant Reformation to Switzerland |
| Henry Hudson | English navigator who sailed on behalf of the Netherland to North America |
| Canute the Dane | Danish king who controlled Denmark and parts of England, Sweden, & Norway |
| Mikael Agricola | Published a Finnish translation of the New Testament |
| Lech Walesa | Polish leader who started the labor union Solidarity to stand against Communist oppression |
| John Huss | Man whose preaching brought reformation to Bohemia |
| Josip Broz Tito | Communist leader of Yugoslavia |
| Adolf Hitler | German chancellor who ordered the invasion of Poland, beginning WWII |
| Berlin Airlift | U.S. & United Kingdom provided food, fuel, and other supplies to West Berlin |
| Scandinavian Peninsula | Contains Iceland, Sweden, and part of Finland |
| Sami | Known as Sapmi |
| Midnight Sun | Phenomenon in which the sun never fully sets below the horizon |
| Finland | Known as the Land of a Thousand Lakes |
| Great Famine | Happened in Lithuania under Joseph Stalin's leadership |
| Thirty Years' War | Protestant & Catholic forces fought throughout Europe during the 1600s |
| Treaty of Versailles | Treaty that ended WWI |
| Bavarian Alps | Part of the Alps that is in southern Germany |
| Eighty Years' War | Netherlands fought for independence from Spain |
| Longyearbyen | One of the world's northernmost towns |
| Inuit | Original inhabitants of places within the Arctic regions |
| Baltic States | Latvia, Lithuania, & Estonia |
| WWI | fought from 1914-1918 |
| Holocaust | Imprisoning and killing of millions of Jewish people and others during WWII |
| Dikes | dam-like water barriers made of earth and stone |
| Tree Line | Point on a mountain beyond which trees cannot grow |
| Vatna Glacier | Europe's Largest Glacier |
| Carpathian Mountains | Arc-Shaped Mountain Range in Eastern Europe |
| European Plain | Europe's largest region of continuously level land |
| Vienna | Capital of Austria |
| Reykjavik | Capital of Iceland |
| Prague | Capital of Czech Republic |