Significant Moments
What is 1989
This 1919 treaty ended World War I and blamed Germany for the war
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of this country
What is Ukraine?
In 1932, the Australian military “lost” a war against these large flightless birds
What are emus?
The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in this country in 1945
What is Japan?
In 1962, this U.S. president negotiated the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Signed in 1949, this treaty created a military alliance of North American and European countries
What is the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO)?
In 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union, a move known by this one-word nickname
What is Brexit?
In 1960, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reportedly pounded this footwear on his desk at the UN General Assembly
What is a shoe?
This Cold War-era conflict from 1950 to 1953 left a peninsula divided at the 38th parallel
What is the Korean War?
What is China?
What are nuclear weapons?
BRICS originally stood for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and this African country, which joined in 2010
What is South Africa?
The 1859 “Pig War” between the U.S. and Britain over the San Juan Islands had this single casualty
What is a pig?
The Vietnam War effectively ended in 1975 with the fall of this city, now called Ho Chi Minh City
What is Saigon?
Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin signed the 1978 Camp David Accords, brokered by this U.S. president
Who is Jimmy Carter?
The 1648 Peace of Westphalia is often credited with establishing this concept, the idea that states have supreme authority within their own borders
What is sovereignty?
In April 2023, this Nordic country joined NATO, ending decades of military non-alignment
What is Finland?
In the “Whisky War” over Hans Island, Canadian and Danish troops left behind bottles of whisky and this Danish liquor
What is schnapps?
The 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked this war
What is World War I?
The 1955 Bandung Conference in Indonesia helped launch this movement of countries that refused to side with either superpower
What is the Non-Aligned Movement?
The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between these two countries
What are Spain and Portugal?
The 2020 Abraham Accords normalized Israel’s relations with the UAE and this other Gulf kingdom
What is Bahrain?
In 1866, this tiny country sent about 80 soldiers to war and reportedly came home with 81
What is Liechtenstein?
In 1967, Israel fought Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in this very short war
What is the Six-Day War?