The contemporary world

Question 1

Soviet leader at the start of the Cold War

Answer 1

Joseph Stalin

Question 2

What kind of leader is Mao Zedong

Answer 2

Chinese Communist leader

Question 3

What kind of leader is Fidel Castro

Answer 3

Cuban Communist leader

Question 4

What kind of leader is Ho Chi Minh

Answer 4

Vietnamese Communist leader

Question 5

leader of Solidarity

Answer 5

Lech Walesa

Question 6

Where did American- trained Cuban exiles tried to invade Cuba?

Answer 6

Bay of Pigs

Question 7

The Soviets launched the first artificial satellite into Earth’s orbit in 1957. What was the name of the satellite?

Answer 7

Sputnik I

Question 8

Allied leaders made agreements about how to divide Berlin after World War II during which conference?

Answer 8

Yalta

Question 9

What was the Cold War “thaw” of the 1970s called?

Answer 9

détente

Question 10

What was the name of the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite countries in Eastern Europe?

Answer 10

Warsaw Pact

Question 11

What body of the United Nations seeks to keep peace in the world and has five permanent members who have veto power over some decisions?

Answer 11

Security Council

Question 12

What gave President Lyndon Johnson extensive authority to increase American involvement in the Vietnam War?

Answer 12

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 13

What was the name of the first free trade union in a Communist country?

Answer 13

Solidarity

Question 14

The initial invasion of South Korea by the North Koreans in June of 1950 drove the Allied troops back to what location?

Answer 14

the Pusan Perimeter

Question 15

What was the name of the series of talks between the United States and the Soviet Union to reduce the number of nuclear weapons each held?

Answer 15

SALT

Question 16

What plan allowed the United States to give billions of dollars in aid to rebuild post-World War II Europe to prevent the growth of Communism?

Answer 16

Marshall Plan

Question 17

During which event did the United States blockade Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from reaching the island?

Answer 17

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 18

When the Soviets cut off access to West Berlin by land, the city was supplied by air for almost a year thanks to what event?

Answer 18

Berlin Airlift

Question 19

What group was formed by the Western Allies and their partners in 1949 to face the growing Soviet threat?

Answer 19

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 20

the Communists defeated the Nationalists, who took refuge on the island of Taiwan

Answer 20

China

Question 21

the Prague Spring of 1968 was crushed by the Soviet Union and four Warsaw Pact nations

Answer 21

Czechoslovakia

Question 22

Who shot the American U-2 spy plane in 1960

Answer 22

Soviet Union

Question 23

the Soviets were never able to take full control of the country due to American-backed Islamic rebels

Answer 23

Afghanistan

Question 24

Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Church gave strength to the people of what nation

Answer 24

Poland

Question 25

the last president of the Soviet Union

Answer 25

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 26

the American military commander in the Korean War

Answer 26

Douglas MacArthur

Question 27

the president of Egypt during the Suez crisis

Answer 27

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Question 28

the American president during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 28

John F. Kennedy

Question 29

the American president who first adopted the policy of containment

Answer 29

Harry Truman

Question 30

The Amazon River can be found on which continent?

Answer 30

South America

Question 31

The Great Lakes can be found on which continent?

Answer 31

North America

Question 32

The islands of Trinidad and Tobago are off the coast of which country?

Answer 32

Venezuela

Question 33

Angel Falls can be found on what continent?

Answer 33

South America

Question 34

Where can Andes mountains be found

Answer 34

West side of South America

Question 35

the largest freshwater lake in the world in terms of surface area

Answer 35

Lake Superior

Question 36

What nation is Honduras

Answer 36

South American nation

Question 37

What nation is Suriname

Answer 37

Central American nation

Question 38

What nation is Greenland

Answer 38

North American nation

Question 39

Where do North and South America meet?

Answer 39

Isthmus of Panama

Question 40

Voodoo is a folk religion practiced by many people in the Caribbean, especially in which nation?

Answer 40

Haiti

Question 41

Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Jamaica are part

Answer 41

Caribbean Island

Question 42

Which country's name means "The Savior"?

Answer 42

El Salvador

Question 43

What is the official language of Brazil?

Answer 43

Portuguese

Question 44

In addition to Aymara, what are the official languages of Peru? Select all that apply.

Answer 44

Quechua Spanish

Question 45

joined Mexico and the United States to form NAFTA

Answer 45

Canada

Question 46

the region that includes Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador

Answer 46

Central America

Question 47

a founding member of OPEC

Answer 47

Venezuela

Question 48

the government fought the British over the Falkland Islands in 1982

Answer 48

Argentina

Question 49

The Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean are a part of what country?

Answer 49

Ecuador

Question 50

What is the official language of Suriname?

Answer 50

Dutch

Question 51

The island of Hispaniola is shared between Haiti and which other nation?

Answer 51

the Dominican Republic

Question 52

Colonists in Latin America relied on which of the following to keep sugar plantations running?

Answer 52

enslaved Africans

Question 53

The Gobi Desert can be found on which continent?

Answer 53

Asia

Question 54

Which Latin American island was the only nation to gain independence from a successful slave uprising?

Answer 54

Haiti

Question 55

The Great Rift System can be found on which continent?

Answer 55

Africa

Question 56

The Great Barrier Reef can be found on which continent?

Answer 56

Australia

Question 57

The Danube River can be found on which continent?

Answer 57

Europe

Question 58

the longest river in Europe

Answer 58

Volga River

Question 59

the tallest mountain in Africa

Answer 59

Mount Kilimanjaro

Question 60

the longest lake in the world

Answer 60

Lake Tanganyika

Question 61

the longest river in the world

Answer 61

Nile River

Question 62

What continent is Morocco

Answer 62

Africa

Question 63

What is the name of the location where Europe and Africa nearly touch between the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea?

Answer 63

Strait of Gibraltar

Question 64

Asia and Africa touch at which location?

Answer 64

Isthmus of Suez

Question 65

What ocean is Australia located

Answer 65

Indian Ocean

Question 66

officially took over from the European Community when the Maastricht Treaty took effect

Answer 66

European Union

Question 67

Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution

Answer 67

China

Question 68

one of the Baltic Republics, formerly part of the U.S.S.R.

Answer 68

Latvia

Question 69

apartheid was abolished there in the 1990s

Answer 69

South Africa

Question 70

its members are the nations of Southeast Asia

Answer 70

ASEAN

Question 71

Islam is the predominant religion of the nations of this region

Answer 71

Middle East

Question 72

Some European nations what type of monarchy

Answer 72

constitutional monarchies

Question 73

Which African nation is the world's newest nation?

Answer 73

South Sudan

Question 74

Who was an incredibly brutal Communist regime in Cambodia.

Answer 74

Khmer Rouge

Question 75

the tallest mountain in the world

Answer 75

Everest

Question 76

located in Africa, near the equator

Answer 76

Congo River Basin

Question 77

forms part of the boundary the between Europe and Asia

Answer 77

Ural Mountains

Question 78

the largest desert in the world

Answer 78

Sahara

Question 79

What is the name of the Pacific region that stretches from Hawaii, to New Zealand, to Easter Island?

Answer 79

the Polynesian Triangle

Question 80

During which Chinese dynasty was the Forbidden City built?

Answer 80

Ming

Question 81

Timbuktu was a major center of trade, learning and art for which African Kingdom?

Answer 81

Mali