B2 · Upper Intermediate
Turning Points in Danish History
Talk about the moments that shaped Denmark, from the Jelling stones and the Reformation to the defeat of 1864, the occupation and membership of the European Community.
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- turning point
- the Viking Age
- a Viking raid, a Viking expedition
- a runestone
- the Jelling stones (the larger one is called Denmark’s baptismal certificate)
- to Christianize
- the Kalmar Union
- the Reformation
- Lutheran
- Scania (the southern tip of Sweden, Danish until 1658)
- a defeat / a loss
- to refrain from
- a loss of territory
- the era of Absolutism
- the historical system that bound male peasants to the estate where they were born (the adscription)
- an agricultural reform (of the late 1700s)
- to abolish
- the Constitution
- right to vote, suffrage
- Dybbøl Mill, symbol of the 1864 war
- a small state
- Southern Jutland
- referendum
- the Reunification of 1920
- the German Occupation (1940–45)
- the policy of cooperation (with the German occupiers, 1940–1943)
- resistance movement
- a resistance fighter
- to put candles in the windows
- the Liberation of 1945
- the EC (European Community, forerunner of the EU)
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Turning Points in Danish History
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