FreeMUN V
List three countries classified as small island developing nations by the UN.
Name all territories currently under American control.
American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Who was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
JFK
What empire was attacking Constantinople during the Siege of Constantinople?
Ottoman
Who was president during 9/11?
Be extremely specific.
George W. Bush
What is the name of the Venezuelan dictator accused of election fraud in June 2024?
Nicolás Maduro
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
In what city is the U.S. embassy in Iran located?
Tehran
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
What is the name of the Iranian woman whose death by morality police brutality in September 2022 sparked unrest across Iran?
Mahsa Amini
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
What percent of Paraguay's male population died in the Paraguayan War?
70-90 percent
(estimates range)
Explain two of the following:
1. the sixteenth amendment
2. the fourteenth amendment
3. the fifteenth amendment
13 - ended slavery
14 - equal protection
15 - voting rights for everyone
What is the name of governing body comprised of nine pirate lords in Pirates of the Carribean?
Brethren Court
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 the three major powers of the Triple Alliance in the Paraguayan War.
Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay
Name two of the top oil supplying countries in the world.
1. Venezuela
2. Saudi Arabia
3. Canada
4. Iran
5. Iraq
Who technically won the Paraguayan War?
Brazil
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 nation helped Iran create its nuclear program in 1957 by providing Iran with its first nuclear reactor?
(this was before Iran became an Islamic republic)
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