European Union
What is the Treaty of Rome?
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are both based in this city.
What is Washington D.C.?
What is the Mississippi River?
Defying accusations of collusion among a global elite, political and economic leaders have been meeting annually at this Swiss mountains resort since 1974
What is Davos?
Who are France and the Netherlands?
In his 1848 speech at the Congress of Europe in The Hague, this British ex-Prime Minister called for peace through the creation of 'United States of Europe'
Who is Winston Churchill?
As trade negotiations moved beyond lowering tariffs to increasing efficiency, the GATT was replaced by this institution in 1995.
What is the World Trade Organization?
As manufacturing jobs disappear, Rust Belt populations are migrating south and west to this region.
What is the Sun Belt?
In a decision that Donald Trump recently called a 'mistake', China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in this year.
What is 2001?
Initiated in 1960 by the UK as a rival to the European Economic Community, this free-trade zone has only 4 members today.
What is the European Free Trade Association (EFTA)?
In 1954, plans for a European Defence Community were derailed when this country's parliament voted against it.
What is France?
Thanks to recessions in the West and a mounting debt crisis in the Third World, this economic doctrine challenged Keynesian ideology in the 1970s.
What is neo-liberalism?
Home to Microsoft, Intel, and Amazon, this technology-rich region runs from Seattle to Portland.
What is Silicon Forest?
The G-20 includes these three mostly-Muslim countries.
What are Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and Turkey?
Home to the European Court of Justice, this country also claims credit for the compromise which ended Charles De Gaulle's Empty Chair crisis.
What is Luxembourg?
After its entry was twice vetoed in the 1960s, the UK finally joined the EU on January 1st of this year
What is 1973?
Although China is already a member of the IMF, it set up this rival development bank, based in Beijing, in 2016.
What is the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank?
Thanks to the passage of this act in 1995, Canada and Mexico are now America's 1st and 2nd largest export markets.
What is NAFTA?
The Bretton Woods conference brought together delegates from this many nations.
What is 44?
The European Parliament first held direct elections for its members in this year.
What is 1979?
The Single European Act of 1986 and the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, which set in motion the future Schengen Zone and the common currency, was passed partly due to the forceful ten-year leadership of this (French) European Commission president.
Who is Jacques Delors?
While the US has always traditionally chosen the World Bank president, Trump's recent nomination of this Treasury official-- a vocal critic of the World Bank-- has aroused fierce opposition.
Who is David Malpass?
Thanks to a series of canals and passages, this 3,700-km long waterway links Duluth, Minnesota to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the St. Lawrence Seaway?
Ending the Bretton Woods system, this US president took the dollar off the gold standard in 1971.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Guilders, francs, lira, peseta, and Deutschmarks disappeared when the first euro coins and notes entered circulation in this year.
What is 2002?