The birthplace of the United Nations is this (very close!) city.
What is San Francisco?
100
This country is the largest and most populous nation in South America.
What is Brazil?
100
Tensions have arisen between Japan and this nation, which has the second largest economy in the world.
What is China?
100
The Winter Olympics recently took place in this Russian city.
What is Sochi?
100
This document, adopted in September 1787, is the supreme law of the United States.
What is the Constitution of the United States?
200
The five original members of the Security Council, charged with maintaining international peace and security, were France, the United Kingdom, the USSR, China, and this nation.
What is the United States?
200
This country, with a capital city of Cairo, borders Sudan, Libya, and Israel.
What is Egypt?
200
This nation declared a "War on Terror" after the events of September 11, 2001.
What is the United States?
200
This group of 28 European nations, most of which use the euro as their currency, recently imposed new sanctions on Russia.
What is the European Union.
200
This man was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
During the Yalta conference of 1945, FDR, Churchill, and this leader of the Soviet Union met to discuss establishing a new European order.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
300
The largest country in the world, this former Communist nation shares a land border with 14 other countries.
What is Russia?
300
This nation, which possesses nuclear weapons, is known as the most repressive country in the world.
What is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)?
300
The World Health Organization recently announced that polio has been eradicated in this nation, the most populous in South Asia.
What is India?
300
The United States entered this war in 1917.
What is World War I.
400
This organization, founded after World War I, was the predecessor to the United Nations.
What was the League of Nations?
400
This most populous city in this nation, known as the "Gateway to Asia," was renamed Istanbul in 1453 after it fell to the Ottoman Turks.
What is Turkey?
400
Troops from this country invaded the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine in February.
What is Russia?
400
The crisis in Syria involved the use of this type of weapon of mass destruction.
What are chemical weapons?
400
This president is associated with the New Deal, a set of reforms that were passed during the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
500
This region, which is in constant conflict with Israel, enjoys observer status in the United Nations.
What is Palestine.
500
This nation, the largest in the Saudi Peninsula, is the region's largest oil producer.
What is Saudi Arabia?
500
This country is the closest ally of the United States in the Middle East and has a violent history of conflict with its Arab neighbors.
What is Israel?
500
Elections are currently taking place in this nation, the largest democracy in the world.
What is India?
500
This president was implicated in the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s.