World Capitals
What is Canberra?
Founded in 1945, headquartered in NY and Geneva, with 193 member states (and Ms. Øgreid used to work there)...
What is the United Nations?
This barrier divided a German city from 1961 to 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This international border is the longest in the world, and runs between these two countries.
What is US and Canada border or US and Canada?
This 2016 referendum led to the UK leaving the EU
What is BREXIT?
South Africa's executive capital, one of the country's three
What is Pretoria?
This 1949 military alliance has two new members in Finland and Sweden
What is NATO?
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This strait separates Europe from Africa at it's closest point.
What is the Strait of Gibraltor?
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
This South American capital was designed from scratch and finished in 1960 to replace another city (with a party reputation).
What is Brasilia
The 5 permanent, veto-holding members of this body are the only ones who can "condemn" actions in the UN system
What is the Security Council?
This 1947 US policy of aid to Greece and Turkey to contain communism is called the ________ Doctrine.
What is Truman?
This line of latitude broadly divides the two Koreas, and you learned last year that U.S. Army colonels Dean Rusk and Charles Bonesteel found it by looking at a National Geographic map.
What is the 38th parallel?
This economic term describes a sustained rise in price and fall in purchasing power
What is inflation?
Turkey's capital
What is Ankara?
This Vienna-headquartered "cartel" coordinates petroleum production policy
What is OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)?
This 1955 treaty organization was the Eastern Bloc's answer to NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This mountain range separates France and Spain as a natural border.
What are the Pyrenees?
This system describes a single part or person that holds absolute power, often by force.
What is authoritarianism? (accept tyranny also)
This Kazakhstani capital city was renamed Nur-Sultan in 2019, but reverted to this name in 2022.
What is Astana?
This is the UN's principal judicial body, seated in The Hague.
What is the International Court of Justice (the ICJ)?
The Soviets invaded this Middle Eastern/Eurasian country as one of the last proxy wars of the Cold War
What is Afghanistan?
The world's largest landlocked "sea" or body of water, bordered by 5 states (one of which is Iran)
What is the Caspian Sea?
This 1648 "Peace" treaty is often credited with founding the modern sovereign state system.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?