China
Since 1949, China has been ruled by this party.
What is the Communist Party?
This is the capital of Russia.
What is Moscow?
This was the first capital of the United States of America.
What is Philadelphia?
The stock market crash of 1929 began this period of severe economic struggle.
What is the Great Depression?
This is the state Mr. Guss grew up in.
Where is New Jersey?
This man was the leader of China from the end of the civil war in 1949 to his death in 1976.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This was the original name of the Communist Party in Russia/the Soviet Union.
What is the Bolsheviks?
This town in Virginia was the first permanent British settlement in the Americas.
What is Jamestown?
This US President resigned over the Watergate Scandal in 1974.
Who is Richard Nixon?
What is tea?
This woman is the author and narrator of Snow Falling in Spring.
Who is Moying Li?
This is the name of the North Korean ideology of "self-reliance."
What is Juche?
This document, signed in 1789, begins with "We the People of the United States."
What is the Constitution?
This is the period after the Civil War where the former Confederate states and its people rejoined the United States.
What is Reconstruction?
This is the number of years Mr. Guss has been at Peck.
What is 3?
This man is the current president of China.
Who is Xi Jinping?
This is what USSR stands for.
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
3 of the first 10 U.S. Presidents had this first name.
What is John?
This man was the US President during World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This is the sport Mr. Guss played in college.
What is soccer?
This agreement ended the First Opium War and handed Hong Kong to Great Britain.
What is the Treaty of Nanjing/Nanking?
This is the historic nickname of the Korean Peninsula that is currently used to describe North Korea.
What is the Hermit Kingdom?
This Mississippian was the President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Supreme Court cases and laws including Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed these laws which legalized segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This was Mr. Guss's college major.
What is political science (politics)?