The leader initiated openness and market reforms in China during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
100
Despotic Soviet dictator until his death in 1953
Who is Josef Stalin?
100
Name of the Islamist terrorist group based in Nigeria with extensions across West Africa and links to ISIS.
What is Boko Haram?
100
The country with is own chapter in your book that Hauss claims is closest to being considered a "failed state."
What is Nigeria?
100
The country from which Nigeria gained independence then inherited its form of parliamentary democracy.
What is the United Kingdom?
200
President, then PM of Duma, now President again.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
200
Russia's capital city under Peter the Great, established by Peter himself.
What is St. Petersburg?
200
Name of the meeting that divided up most of Africa amongst European powers.
What is the Berlin Conference?
200
The country that signed a 2015 agreement put forth by President Obama to limit its arms development, against the protests of Israel.
What is Iran?
200
The first country to declare independence from Yugoslavia.
What is Slovenia?
300
The current Supreme Leader
Who is Ali Khamenei?
300
According to Hauss (2015), including China how many communist countries remain?
What is 5?
300
Organization founded by leaders of India, Yugoslavia, Egypt, and Indonesia offering an alternative to alliances with the United States or Soviet Union during their Cold War.
What is the Non-Aligned Movement?
300
The organization that is responsible for the Millennium Development Goals.
What is the United Nations?
300
Led by the Nehru-Gandhi family, this political party dominated Indian politics for the first fifty years after independence.
What is Congress?
400
President of Iran
Who is Hassan Rouhani?
400
Besieged Bosnian capital, and city in former Yugoslavia that hosted 1984 Winter Olympics.
What is Sarajevo?
400
Syrian resistance group against President Bashar Al-Assad that President Obama declined to support openly in 2013, prior to the rise of ISIS.
What is the Free Syrian Army?
400
First Prime Minister of India, leader of the Non-Aligned Movement?
Who is Nehru?
400
This man's refusal to observe his own rule of single-term leadership led to a groundswell of opposition that resulted in the Mexican Revolution of 1917.
Who is Porfirio Diaz?
500
Current leader of PRC, outspoken opponent of corruption.
Who is Xi Jinping?
500
According to "Normal Countries," the Soviets brutally repressed democratic protests in these three satellite states.
What are Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia?
500
Event during which Mao and the CCP ultimately gained the upper hand against Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists.
What is the Long March.
500
Mexican General who took the Alamo, but ultimately lost Texas plus the Mexican-American War in 1848, then sold off what became part of Arizona and New Mexico to the U.S.
Who is Santa Ana?
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.