1. Great Wall of China
   Temple of Heaven
2. Tiananmen Square
   Times Square

In 1989, Chinese protesters demonstrated in Tiananmen Square. On June 4 of that year, Chinese troops entered the square and shot at civilians. The number of deaths is estimated to be in the hundreds to thousands.

1. Joseph Stalin
   Archduke Franz Ferdinand
2. Abraham Lincoln
   Mahatma Gandhi

On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. A month later, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia with Germany's support.

1. Fidel Castro
   Fulgencio Batista
2. Ramon Grau
   Che Guevara

Ernesto "Che" Guevara was born June 15, 1928. Prior to becoming a revolutionary, he studied medicine at the University of Buenos Aires.

1. Interpol
   United Nations
2. League of Nations
   European Union

On January 10, 1920, the League of Nations was created. After World War II, the League of Nations was dissolved and replaced with the United Nations. In total, the League of Nations lasted 26 years.

1. Australia
   France
2. Germany
   Russia

Over the course of 80 years, England sent over 160,000 convicts to Australia. The major colonies were New South Wales, Tasmania and Western Australia.

1. Great Wall of China
   Berlin Wall
2. Western Wall
   Lennon Wall

The Berlin Wall was constructed in 1961. While more than 5,000 East Germans were able to escape over the wall, 171 people were killed trying to get to West Germany.

1. Vladimir Lenin
   Joseph Stalin
2. Mikhail Gorbachev
   Nikita Khrushchev

From 1929 to 1953, Joseph Stalin was dictator of the USSR, which stands for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He was born on December 18, 1878 as Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili and took the name Stalin in his 30s, which means "man of steel."

1. Niña
   Titanic
2. Pinta
   Santa Maria

Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean four times for Spain. His trips took place in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502.

1. Tony Blair
   Neville Chamberlain
2. Benjamin Disraeli
   Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill was born on November 30, 1874 to an American mother and a British father. He would serve as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice: once from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

1. French Revolution
   American Revolutionary War
2. World War I
   World War II

The Reign of Terror lasted from September 5, 1793 to July 1794. On September 5, 1793, Maximilian Robespierre declared terror to be "the order of the day." The Reign of Terror ended on on July 28, 1794 with the execution of Robespierre.

1. Hedy Lamarr
   Marilyn Monroe
2. Doris Day
   Grace Kelly

Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier. They remained married until her death in 1982.

1. Neferefre
   Cleopatra
2. Hatshepsut
   Tutankhamun

Cleopatra VII became pharaoh after the death of her father, Ptolemy XII. She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty and came from Macedonian Greek ancestry.

1. Leonid Brezhnev
   Josef Stalin
2. Georgy Malenkov
   Mikhail Gorbachev

In 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev received The Nobel Peace Prize for his role in bringing the Cold War to a peaceful end. The collapse of the Soviet Union would officially end the Cold War in 1991.

1. North American Free Trade Agreement
   European Union
2. League of Nations
   Western Union

The European Union was founded on November 1, 1993 in Maastricht, Netherlands. However, the concept of a united Europe started in 1950 with the European Coal and Steel Community, which had six member nations.

1. Yom Kippur War
   Gulf War
2. The Troubles
   Six-Day War

The Troubles lasted approximately 40 years. The Irish Republican Army and other Catholic paramilitary groups staged bombings, kidnappings and murders with the goal of a United Ireland.

1. Lusitania
   Titanic
2. Queen Elizabeth II
   Queen Mary

The RMS Lusitania was traveling from Liverpool to New York City. It sank off the southern coast of Ireland, killing approximately 1,200 people.

1. Augustus
   Claudius
2. Julius Caesar
   Caligula

Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Albinus and Marcus Junius Brutus led the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar. Caesar was killed on March 15 of the year 44 BC.

1. Ferdinand Magellan
   Juan Ponce de Leon
2. Erik the Red
   Christopher Columbus

Erik the Red was born Erik Thorvaldsson in Norway. His son, Lief Erikson, would visit North America before Christopher Columbus.

1. British Empire
   Holy Roman Empire
2. Spanish Empire
   Russian Empire

Charlemagne was crowned emperor in 800. The empire lasted for over 1,000 years until Napoleon and the French destroyed it in 1806.

1. Elba
   Crete
2. Madagascar
   Haiti

In 1814, Napoleon was forced to abdicate to Elba. However, he escaped in February 1815 and regained control of France. Eventually, the British exiled him to Saint Helena, where he would die six years later.

1. Charlemagne
   Genghis Khan
2. King George
   Osman I

In 1206, Genghis Khan founded the Mongol empire. At it's peak, it covered 9 million square miles. The empire collapsed in 1368.

1. Oslo
   Istanbul
2. Ho Chi Minh City
   Mumbai

Mumbai is India's most populous city. As of 2011, over 18 million people live in the city.

1. Germany and the United States
   United States and the Soviet Union
2. Japan and Britain
   France and Italy

The Cold War began in 1945. It lasted for 45 years and ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

1. United Kingdom
   France
2. Germany
   Russia

The "Entente" comes from the French word for "understanding." In World War I, the Triple Entente fought against the Triple Alliance, which consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.

1. France
   England
2. Russia
   China

The United States purchased Alaska in 1867. Those against the purchase nicknamed it "Seward's Folly" because William H. Seward was the Secretary of State at the time.

1. Korean Demilitarized Zone
   Korean Treaty Border
2. Korean War Zone
   North-South Dividing Line

Military activity is forbidden in the Korean Demilitarized Zone. However, the border after the strip is heavily guarded. The Korean Demilitarized Zone is 160 miles long and approximately 2.5 miles wide.

1. Germany
   Iraq
2. Pakistan
   Afghanistan

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan lasted approximately 9 years. The Soviet Union joined the Afghan Civil War to support the Democratic Party of Afghanistan's control of the government because mujahideen insurgents were fighting to overthrow it.

1. Margaret Thatcher
   Golda Meir
2. David Ben-Gurion
   Kim Campbell

Golda Meir served as Prime Minister of Israel from March 17, 1969 to June 3, 1974. She was born in Kiev and immigrated to the United States in 1906.

1. Munich Agreement
   Treaty of Paris
2. Geneva Accords
   The Treaty of Versailles

The Geneva Accords were a result of the Geneva Conference, which took place from April 26 to July 21, 1954. They consist of 10 documents.

1. Abraham Lincoln
   Bill Clinton
2. Jimmy Carter
   George H.W. Bush

The Iran Hostage Crisis started on November 4, 1979 when a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy. It would end 444 days later on January 21, 1981. The crisis ended hours after Ronald Reagan's inauguration.

1. Beijing
   Paris
2. London
   Constantinople

The Ottoman Empire lasted 600 years. It ended in 1922. The empire was succeeded by the Turkish Republic.

1. New York City
   Mumbai
2. Ho Chi Minh City
   Toronto

As Saigon, the city was the capital of Cochinchina, a French colony. It was renamed on July 2, 1976.

1. Chile
   Cambodia
2. Brazil
   Argentina

The Falklands War is also known as the Malvinas War. The war lasted 10 weeks. It began on April 2, 1982 and ended with Argentina's surrender on June 14, 1982.

1. Neil Armstrong
   Sir Edmund Hillary
2. Daniel Boone
   Hernan Cortes

Edmund Hillary reached the summit of Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay. The two men spent about 15 minutes at the summit.

1. United Nations
   European Union
2. World Health Organization
   League of Nations

The United Nations was formed on October 24, 1945. To form the UN, 50 countries met in San Francisco to draft the UN Charter.