Geography
These 4 countries all share a border with Germany (name them)
(France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland)
This is what the acronym USSR stands for.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
This sweeping infrastructure and investment initiative, launched by Xi Jinping in 2013, has extended Chinese economic influence across Asia, Africa, and Europe through loans and development projects.
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
The Largest Exporter of Gold to the United States.
Switzerland
This Trump-negotiated 2020 trade agreement, which replaced NAFTA and is known by this four-letter acronym, imposed stricter rules of origin on automobile manufacturing and stronger labor protections for Mexican workers.
USMCA (United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement)
Of the seven countries that border Saudi Arabia, name five.
Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Yemen
Mao Zedong's attempt to rapidly industrialize China through this 1958-1962 campaign resulted in the deadliest famine in human history.
The Great Leap Forward
Name three current European heads of state
(Emmanuel Macron (France), Friedrich Merz (Germany), Giorgia Meloni (Italy))
Despite heated political debates about energy independence from this country, the U.S. quietly receives more crude oil from it than from any OPEC nation — making it America's most indispensable and least discussed energy partner.
Canada
This 2021 security pact between the U.S., UK, and Australia — which caused a major diplomatic rift with France — committed to providing Australia with nuclear-powered submarines.
AUKUS (Australia, UK, United States)
This British Overseas Territory, an archipelago claimed by Argentina, sits just off its eastern coast.
The Falkland Islands
Name the three major leaders involved in the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993.
Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, and Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton appointed the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State from ‘97-’01, name her.
Madeleine Albright
This country is the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasury securities, giving it unusual financial leverage over Washington.
Japan
These Iranian-made kamikaze drones, supplied to Russia in large numbers, have become a signature weapon of Russia's strike campaign against Ukrainian civilian infrastructure since 2022.
Shahed drones (Shahed-136)
This narrow strait between Malaysia and Indonesia is the most critical naval chokepoint in Southeast Asia.
The Strait of Malacca
This U.S. Secretary of State engineered the Open Door Policy toward China in 1899.
In 2020, the nation of Morocco normalized its relations with Israel in exchange for U.S. recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over what region?
Western Sahara
Largest exporter of vaccines to the United States.
Ireland
This classified 1950 policy document, authored primarily by Paul Nitze, argued that the U.S. must quadruple its defense budget and pursue permanent military superiority over the Soviet Union — effectively launching the modern national security state.
NSC-68
This former Soviet republic, famous for its wine, shares a land border with Russia stretching roughly 550 miles
Georgia
Name 4 of the 14 members of ExComm, the secret advisory committee JFK assembled during the Cuban Missile Crisis (not including JFK).
Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Robert F. Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy, Theodore Sorensen, Maxwell Taylor, Douglas Dillon, John McCone, Llewellyn Thompson, Roswell Gilpatric, George Ball, Paul Nitze, Alexis Johnson, Dean Acheson
This 2011 diplomatic cable leak, orchestrated by this organization, exposed candid U.S. assessments of foreign leaders and caused a global diplomatic crisis for the Obama administration.
WikiLeaks
: Largest port of entry for US Goods into Europe.
Port of Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Russia suspended its participation in this last remaining U.S.-Russia nuclear arms control treaty in 2023, leaving the two largest nuclear arsenals in the world without a formal verification framework for the first time since the Cold War.