Since its introduction in 2002, which country has not adopted Europe's...
Transylvania is part of what European state?
Blood diamonds refers to
The Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923 took place in
Although it came to symbolize the entire Cold War conflict, the Berlin...
During the Tokugawa Shogunate (1603-1868), Japan's government
During the 1980s, the Soviet experience in this country was compared...
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) was the basis of what policy?
The Basque people are indigenous to
The policy of containment, as enunciated by George Kennan, was based...
In the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Chinese students called for
The Seven Years War (1756-1763) went by what name in North America?
Qat (or khat), a relatively mild stimulant, is most widely used in
The United States and the People's Republic of China started to...
In the 18th century, Botany Bay in Australia served Britain as
In traditional Chinese thinking, the loss of the Mandate of Heaven...
Hong Kong became a British possession as a result of
Augusto Sandino, whose name came to be associated with the...
The Wahhabi interpretation of Islam
The body of water that links Sweden, Lithuania, and Russia is
The Horn of Africa includes all of the following countries except
In the United Nations Security Council, which country does not have a...
In traditional Chinese political thinking, the Mandate of Heaven can...
During the bloodiest phase of the Mexican Revolution, American troops...
A fundamental goal of the concert of Europe was
Manuel Noriega, who ruled Panama from 1983 to 1989, was toppled and...
Although the 1917 Balfour Declaration pledged British support for an...
The First Opium War (1839-1842) was a result of
The French colonial presence in Vietnam became unsupportable
The Hungarian Uprising of 1954 was premised on the hope of American...
The Republic of Panama won its independence from ______________ in...
The founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, sought to create
Simon Bolivar was instrumental in freeing all of the following from...
Admiral Perry's entry into Yokohama in 1853 led to
Bohemia and Moravia are part of what modern state?
The Vietnamese celebration of Tet marks
Although intended as a term of derision, banana republic reflected
The Japanese attack on the American Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor had...
After World War II, the German city of Danzig became
The Aral Sea in Central Asia has shrunk dramatically in the last...
As an international athletic competition, the first modern Olympiad...
Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) advocated what broad goal for British...
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Fidel Castro
Although the Dalai Lama claims sovereignty over Tibet, the People's...
The French Revolution bore what relation to the American Revolution?
The United States emerged as a self consciously colonial power as a...
Although three-fourths of the world's surface is covered by water, how...
Among the states of the former Soviet Union, the state with the...
In Mexico, the Dia del Grito (Day of the Call) celebrates
Beginning in the 1980s, Peru has struggled with a particularly...
The purpose of mercantilist policies was to
The modern state of Bangladesh won its independence in 1971 from
The ____________ dynasty ruled China from 1644 until it was overthrown...
Vaclav Havel, a former dissident and playwright, became president of...
With international recognition of the Congo Free State by the Berlin...
The Schlieffen Plan in World War I called for Germany to
In the 1978 Iranian Revolution, which overthrew the shah and resulted...
Which of the following countries never belonged to the Warsaw Pact?
Relations between the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union
During its first decades, the success of the Monroe Doctrine depended...
America's Open Door Policy toward China
With the expulsion of the Kuomintang from China in 1949,
The French decision to support the nascent United States against...
The Brezhnev Doctrine was enunciated in response to
As a result of the Lateran Treaty of 1929,
Although they are identified largely with Iraq, the Tigris and...
Although it accomplished little, the Evian Conference (1938) was...
The Fashoda Crisis of 1896 brought which two great powers to the brink...
A fundamental difference between the colonialism of the 18th century...
Among the sites holy to Islam, this is associated with the Prophet...
The Roosevelt Corollary of 1904 held that
The Truman Doctrine, which held that the United States would aid any...
The Boxer Uprising, while aimed against Western influences in China,
The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, although it...
The October 1917 Revolution (also called the Bolshevik Revolution)...