This leader initiated openness and market reforms in China during the late 1970s.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
100
The bracero and maquiladora programs were introduced to support the U.S. economy with labor from which country?
What is Mexico?
100
The ISIS-linked terrorist group based in Nigeria with affiliates throughout West Africa.
What is Boko Haram?
100
Nigeria gained independence from this country and inherited its form of parliamentary democracy.
What is the U.K.?
100
One of the two candidates in the May 2017 French election.
Who are Macron (En Marche) and Marine LePen (National Front)?
200
Current leader of Turkey, led constitutional referendum in 2017.
Who is Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?
200
Damascus is thought to be the longest continually-settled city in the world, and it is the capital of this war-torn country.
What is Syria?
200
The name of the 1884 meeting that divided up most of Africa among European Powers
What is the Berlin Conference?
200
This country was the first to declare independence from Yugoslavia. It is also the birthplace of President-elect Trump’s wife Melania.
What is Slovenia?
200
With a mere 4% approval rating, this leader is the first French incumbent in more than 40 years not to seek reelection.
Who is Francois Hollande?
300
Current Supreme Leader of Iran
Who is Ali Khamenei?
300
This semester, Syrian government airstrikes against rebel-held areas of this city generated global consternation because they allegedly contained chlorine, which is banned as “chemical weaponry” by international law.
What is Aleppo?
300
Organization promoted by leaders of India, Yugoslavia, Egypt, and Indonesia that offered an alternative to alliances with the United States or Soviet Union during the Cold War.
What is the Non-Aligned Movement?
300
Led by the Nehru-Gandhi family, this political party dominated Indian politics for the first fifty years of independence.
What is Congress/INC?
300
The inter-governmental organization that is responsible for the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals
What is the United Nations?
400
Current President of Iran
Who is Hassan Rouhani?
400
The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan was located at the approximate site of this megalopolis.
What is Mexico City?
400
The main early opposition to President Bashar Assad in Syria, which in 2013 President Obama was reluctant to openly support.
What is the Free Syrian Army?
400
His refusal to observe his own rule of single-term leadership led to a rising tide of opposition that resulted in the Mexican Revolution of 1917.
What is Porfirio Diaz?
400
First Prime Minister of India, Leader of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Who is Nehru?
500
Current President of South Africa.
Who is Jacob Zuma?
500
In November, this South American country’s government enacted a cease-fire against the revolutionary group FARC that was rejected by its citizens then revised.
What is Colombia?
500
Name of the current Mexican President.
Who is Enrique Peña Nieto?
500
Iran’s first Supreme Leader, who led the revolution against Mohammad Reza Shah in 1979, ending the country’s dynasty and its political friendship with the United States.
Who is Ayatollah Khomeini?
500
Donald Trump recently angered China over a congratulatory phone call from this country.