War & Peace
This organization, founded in 1971, has won the Nobel Peace Prize for its humanitarian efforts in war zones.
What is Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)?
The Schengen Agreement allows for passport-free travel between most member states of this economic and political union.
What is the European Union?
This 1789 revolution led to the overthrow of King Louis XVI and introduced the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.
What is the French Revolution?
This international treaty, signed in 1968, aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
What is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)?
This well-known Soviet intelligence agency was tasked with espionage, counterintelligence, and surveillance, especially during the Cold War.
What is the KGB?
This term describes a war in which opposing sides use third parties as substitutes for direct conflict, such as in Vietnam and Afghanistan during the Cold War.
What is a proxy war?
This post-World War II economic recovery plan provided over $12 billion in aid to Western European nations.
What is the Marshall Plan?
In 1989, pro-democracy protesters gathered in this Beijing square before a violent military crackdown.
What is Tiananmen Square?
This Cold War agreement, signed in 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, eliminated intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
What is the INF Treaty?
This espionage technique involves sending a secret agent under an assumed identity to gather intelligence without the target’s knowledge.
What is a cover operation?
This treaty, signed in 1953, ended active combat but did not officially conclude the Korean War.
What is the Korean Armistice Agreement?
This acronym refers to the world's largest economies that meet annually to discuss global financial policy, including the U.S., Japan, and Germany.
What is the G7?
This Maoist movement, launched in 1966, sought to purge China of "bourgeois" elements and reassert communist ideology.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
In 1996, this treaty was created to ban all nuclear test explosions, though the U.S. has never ratified it.
What is the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)?
The overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 was orchestrated by these two intelligence agencies.
What are the CIA and MI6?
The Yom Kippur War of 1973 was fought between Israel and a coalition led by these two Arab nations.
What are Egypt and Syria?
The "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" suggests that no two countries with this fast-food chain will go to war with each other.
What is McDonald's?
The "Orange Revolution" of 2004 took place in this Eastern European country after allegations of election fraud.
What is Ukraine?
The Castle Bravo nuclear test in 1954 resulted in unexpected radiation fallout affecting this Pacific island nation.
What is the Marshall Islands?
This American-born traitor, working for the KGB, leaked vital information to the Soviet Union and was later involved in one of the largest espionage scandals of the Cold War.
Who is Aldrich Ames?
The Good Friday Agreement, signed in 1998, helped bring peace to this region of the United Kingdom.
What is Northern Ireland?
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was a major trade agreement negotiated by multiple Pacific Rim countries, but this country withdrew from it in 2017.
What is the United States?
The Velvet Revolution of 1989 led to the peaceful separation of this country into two nations four years later.
What is Czechoslovakia?
The Soviet Union's nuclear stockpiles were secured and dismantled by this program.
What is the 1995 Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program?
This Cold War-era spy scandal involved five British men who secretly worked as Soviet spies.
What is the Cambridge Five?