Presidential Background
Before becoming president, he was President of the Screen Actors Guild, as well as a state governor.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This 1919 treaty formally ended the First World War.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This Italian city is widely known as the birthplace of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
This prolonged affair first began in 1927 before finally ending in 1949.
What is the Chinese Civil War?
This Carthaginian general swore to his father "never to be the friend of the Romans."
Who is Hannibal?
With a background as a land surveyor, a survivor of smallpox, and a military man, he had quite the career prior to assuming the presidency.
Who is George Washington?
This 1763 treaty formally brought an end to the Seven Years' War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This family ruled Spain during the height of its power in the Renaissance.
What are the Habsburgs?
Before being known as Taiwan, the island was known by this alternative name.
What is Formosa?
The largest island in modern Greece, home to the ancient Minoan civilization.
What is Crete?
He is still the only president to have acquired a Ph.D., and he also served as a university president before becoming President of the United States.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The 1955 Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (TFCMA) brought this organization into existence as a counterweight to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (N.A.T.O.) in Europe.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
He painted part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted "David."
Who is Michelangelo?
This Nationalist general was kidnapped and forced to create a united front with the Communists against the Japanese.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
This trio of conflicts ended with the Romans destroying the city of Carthage.
What are the Punic Wars?
One of only four men to have been a federal Representative, Senator, and Vice-President before becoming President, this Tennessean was also his state's governor.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This 1494 treaty between Spain and Portugal divided the world in half for newly claimed lands between the two nations.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This English monarch broke with the Catholic Church to form the Church of England during the Renaissance.
Who is King Henry VIII?
This special administrative region of the People's Republic of China is highly developed, has a massive gambling industry, and has Portuguese as a co-official language.
What is Macau?
This material, coming from a plant, was used by the ancient Egyptians (and others) to write on.
What is Papyrus?
He ran with the campaign slogan, "Return to Normalcy," this man also served as a teacher and journalist in his native Ohio before his time as president.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
This treaty, named after the city in which it was signed, formally ended the War of 1812 between the United Kingdom and the United States.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
This Florentine writer argued for a pragmatic approach to governing in The Prince.
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?
In the decade following the establishment of the People's Republic of China, this campaign tried to quickly industrialize the nation and collectivize agriculture via people's communes.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
The fourth Roman Emperor, his third wife was put on trial and eventually executed for conspiracy and bigamy, and he was also the first emperor born outside of Italy.
Who is Emperor Claudius?