FreeMUN IV
Name five countries that possess nuclear weapons.
Name all territories currently under American control.
Puerto Rico and Guam
Who was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
JFK
Who was president during 9/11?
Be extremely specific.
George W. Bush
What does S.H.I.E.L.D. stand for? (from MCU)
Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division
True or false: the US recognizes the State of Palestine.
False
What overseas war, which lasted 1955-1975, was the US involved in?
Vietnam War
Built largely by Chinese American immigrants, this method of transportation connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network with the Pacific coast. Approximately 1,200 Chinese died while building this.
Transcontinental Railroad
Name three countries involved in the Suez Canal Crisis.
Egypt, Israel, GB, France, US
China, Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam are fighting over what body of water?
South China Sea
Define isolationism in terms of global politics.
"a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries."
- merriam webster
Explain two of the following:
1. the sixteenth amendment
2. the fourteenth amendment
3. the fifteenth amendment
13 - ended slavery
14 - gave Black people citizenship
15 - gave Black males the right to vote
List two challenges Small Island Developing States face.
1. climate change
2. economy
3. social unity
4. threats to biodiversity
5. anything else?
Name one of the top ten countries with the lowest birth rates.
OPEC was created in 1960 in Baghdad, Iraq for what purpose?
co-ordinate and unify petroleum policies among Member Countries to secure pricing for producers, supply for consumers, and return on capital for investors, although the group is best known for its effect on global crude oil prices
Name two of the top oil supplying countries in the world.
1. Venezuela
2. Saudi Arabia
3. Canada
4. Iran
5. Iraq
Who preceded Leonid Brezhnev as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
Hint: Brezhnev held this position 1964–1982
Nikita Khrushchev
The United States spends ___ percent of federal spending on the military, which constituted nearly 40 percent of the total military spending worldwide that year.
You may get within 2 percent.
12%
___ was the first nation to permanently ban slavery after their successful revolution in from 1791-1804. This country was the first free black republic in the world, the first independent state in the Caribbean and the second independent state in the Western Hemisphere.
Haiti
What president is from famous for saying, "I have committed adultery in my heart many times"?
Hint: he is still alive and was the 39th president
Jimmy Carter