Cold War Era

This meeting took place in Yalta, a resort city on the Crimean Peninsula, where the Black Sea's northern shore curves beneath the Crimean Mountains — exactly the southern edge of the vast Eurasian…

This was Oświęcim — known to the world by its German name, Auschwitz — in southern Poland, sitting on the flat basin of the upper Vistula River just north of where the Carpathian Mountains rise along…

The meeting took place in Potsdam, a city just southwest of Berlin in what is now Germany, sitting on the flat North European Plain between the Elbe and Oder rivers — the same low corridor that has…

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two major cities on the Japanese archipelago, sit on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean, facing the East China Sea and the Korean Peninsula across narrow straits — exactly…

From November 1945, the British military authorities put officers of the Indian National Army — soldiers who had fought under Subhas Chandra Bose alongside Japan — on trial for treason at the Red…

This event is anchored in Warsaw, the capital of Poland — a city sitting squarely on the flat North European Plain, bounded to the north by the Baltic Sea and to the south by the arc of the…

This was Nuremberg, a city in southern Germany — sitting precisely between the Rhine River to the west and the Danube to the south, in the dense interior of Central Europe. In 1945 and 1946, the…

This event unfolded in Amsterdam, the Netherlands — the low-lying Rhine delta nation on the North Sea coast, across the North Sea from Britain. In May 1945, the First Canadian Army completed the…

This event took place in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada — a small industrial town on the Atlantic-facing side of the Nova Scotia peninsula, the long finger of land that juts into the North Atlantic…

Tokyo, the capital of Japan — a city on Honshu, the largest island of the Japanese archipelago curving along Asia's Pacific edge — was the site of the International Military Tribunal for the Far…

On 16 August 1946 — Direct Action Day, called by the Muslim League — massive communal violence broke out in Calcutta (now Kolkata), then the most populous city on the Bay of Bengal and the commercial…

This conflict was centered on Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam — a country stretching down a thin, curved peninsula in Southeast Asia, tucked between southern China to the north, the South China Sea to…

On 18 February 1946, ratings of the Royal Indian Navy seized ships and shore stations in Bombay (now Mumbai) harbour — the premier naval base on the Arabian Sea coast — and went on strike, flying the…

This event unfolded in Manila, the capital of the Philippines — an archipelago of over 7,000 islands strung across the western Pacific, east of Vietnam and north of the island of Borneo. Beginning in…

On March 12 1947 President Harry Truman addressed Congress requesting military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey, both threatened by communist movements. He articulated what became known as the…

New Delhi, the capital of India, sits on the broad plains south of the Himalayas, roughly midway across the subcontinent that juts like a triangle into the Indian Ocean between the Arabian Sea and…

At the stroke of midnight on 14–15 August 1947, British rule over the South Asian subcontinent ended and two independent nations came into being: Pakistan (with its capital at Karachi on the Arabian…

On 22 March 1947, Lord Louis Mountbatten was sworn in as the last Viceroy of the subcontinent in New Delhi — the purpose-built capital on the Yamuna plain in what is now north-central India. He had…

Tel Aviv stands on the narrow Mediterranean coastal plain of the Levant, between the sea to the west and the Judean Hills to the east. On 14 May 1948, David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the State of Israel…

This is Berlin, the capital of Germany, sitting on the flat North European Plain roughly halfway between the Rhine River to the west and the Polish border to the east. Beginning in June 1948, the…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard of North America — on the Potomac River's banks, between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Atlantic coast…

Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa, sits on the Highveld plateau in the far south of the African continent, where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet around the Cape of Good Hope…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard of North America, nestled between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, on the…

This event took place in Paris, France — the French capital straddling the Seine River, roughly midway between the English Channel coast to the northwest and the Alps to the southeast. On December 9…

This event unfolded in Bogotá, the high-altitude capital of Colombia — a city perched in the Andes on the northern end of South America, where the mountain chain curves toward the Caribbean. In 1948…

This conflict unfolded across the Malay Peninsula — the long finger of land stretching south from mainland Southeast Asia, flanked by the South China Sea to the east and the Strait of Malacca to the…

Washington, D.C., on the eastern seaboard of the United States — sitting between the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay lowlands, exactly where the title clue pointed — was where the North Atlantic…

The site was the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeastern Kazakhstan — deep in the Eurasian steppe, east of the Urals and north of the Tian Shan mountains, exactly as the clues described. In August…

This event took place in Beijing, the capital of China, situated on the North China Plain where the Yellow River basin's flat heartland pushes up against the highlands leading to the Mongolian…

Wake Island, a tiny United States-controlled atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, sits almost exactly midway between the west coast of North America and the eastern edge of Asia — one of the most…

The Yalu River, running along the border between China and North Korea, is where hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops crossed in late October 1950, dramatically reversing the Korean War. The…

The Chosin Reservoir sits in the rugged mountains of northeastern North Korea, on the Korean Peninsula — that finger of land hanging south from the Asian continent between the Yellow Sea to the west…

This event unfolded in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, situated on the eastern seaboard of North America between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to…

This is Hungnam, a port city on the northeastern coast of North Korea — sitting on the western edge of the Sea of Japan, on the Korean Peninsula that hangs between mainland China and the open…

This is Busan (then called Pusan), on the southeastern tip of the Korean Peninsula — the narrow finger of land extending south from the Asian mainland between the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan…

The Korean Peninsula — a finger of land hanging from northeastern Asia between the Yellow Sea to the west and the Sea of Japan to the east — was the battleground of the Korean War, which began in…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the Atlantic seaboard, roughly where the coastal plain meets the foothills east of the Appalachian Mountains — the…

This is Seoul, the capital of South Korea — sitting in the Han River valley on the Korean Peninsula, exactly the landmass flanked by the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan that the title described. In…

The Battle of Heartbreak Ridge was fought near Mundung-ni in North Korea, a country occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula — a rugged landmass jutting southward from Manchuria between…

The battle took place along the Imjin River in South Korea, on the Korean Peninsula — that finger of land jutting southward from the Asian mainland, with the Yellow Sea to its west and the Sea of…

This revolution unfolded in La Paz, Bolivia — a city perched on the Andean plateau deep in the interior of South America, exactly the landlocked highland the title described. In April 1952, the MNR…

Enewetak Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, sits roughly equidistant between the Asian continent to the west and the Hawaiian island chain to the east — exactly the…

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for passing classified information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Despite international protests and appeals…

Panmunjom, a small village on the Korean Peninsula, sits almost exactly on the line that splits the peninsula roughly in half — the same line the armistice of July 27, 1953 turned into a heavily…

Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa, stands on the Highveld plateau north of the Magaliesberg mountain range, drained by the Apies River into the Limpopo system. The Bantu Education…

Panmunjom, on the border between North and South Korea, sits almost exactly on the 38th parallel — the line that splits the Korean Peninsula, which hangs southward from the northeastern edge of the…

This is Tehran, the capital of Iran — sitting high on the Iranian Plateau, with the Alborz Mountains to the north and the Zagros range curving to the west, exactly between the Caspian Sea and the…

This landmark legal case was decided in Topeka, Kansas — a city sitting on the open plains of the American Midwest, roughly equidistant from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, near the geographic…

Geneva, Switzerland — the landlocked Alpine city where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva between the Alps and the Jura mountains — was where the 1954 Geneva Accords were signed, ending the First Indochina…

Điện Biên Phủ is a valley town in northwestern Vietnam, tucked into the rugged highlands where the long, narrow Indochinese Peninsula pushes south from the underbelly of southern China — exactly the…

This is Guatemala City, the capital of Guatemala — sitting on the narrow Central American isthmus that links North and South America, with the Pacific to the west and the Caribbean to the east. In…

Washington, D.C. — the capital of the United States, perched on the Potomac River along the Atlantic seaboard between the Appalachian Mountains and the sea — was the stage for the 1954 Army-McCarthy…

This coup took place in Asunción, the capital of Paraguay — a landlocked country nestled in the interior of South America, bordered by the great Paraná River to the east and south, with the Andes…

Washington D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River on the eastern seaboard of North America, roughly halfway up the Atlantic coast between the Appalachian Mountains and the…

This is Algiers, the capital of Algeria — a country stretching from the Mediterranean's southern shore deep into the Sahara, directly across the sea from France and Spain. In 1954, the National…

The signing took place in Manila, the capital of the Philippines — an archipelago nation sitting where the South China Sea meets the western Pacific, on the island of Luzon, the largest in a chain…

This was Bandung, a highland city in Indonesia — on the island of Java, sitting between volcanic mountain ranges and the Java Sea, in the world's largest archipelago straddling the equator between…

This is Montgomery, Alabama, a city in the southeastern United States sitting on the rolling coastal plain between the Appalachian Mountains to the north and the Gulf of Mexico to the south…

This conflict unfolded across Vietnam, a long, S-shaped country on the eastern edge of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia — flanked by the South China Sea to the east and sharing borders with…

Warsaw, the capital of Poland, sits on the Vistula River in the heart of the North European Plain — exactly the flat, open corridor between the Baltic Sea to the north and the Carpathian Mountains…

This is Budapest, the capital of Hungary — a city split by the Danube River, sitting in the Carpathian Basin roughly halfway between the Alps to the west and the Carpathian Mountains curving around…

This is Alexandria, Egypt — on the Mediterranean's southern edge where northeastern Africa faces Europe across a narrow sea, at the northern mouth of the canal that cuts through the isthmus…

Washington, D.C., on the eastern seaboard of the United States — nestled between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east — became the epicentre of national alarm in…

This crisis unfolded in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States — a city sitting on the Arkansas River just where the Ozark Plateau's foothills give way to the flat Mississippi Alluvial Plain stretching…

This is Accra, the capital of Ghana, sitting on the Gulf of Guinea where West Africa's coast turns from east-facing to south-facing — the geographic 'corner' the title clue described. On March 6…

This launch attempt took place at Cape Canaveral, on the Atlantic coast of Florida — the long peninsula dangling southward from the southeastern corner of North America, pointing toward the…

The launch site is Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in what is now Kazakhstan — a vast, flat, semi-arid steppe basin lying between the Caspian Sea to the west and the former Aral Sea to the east, deep in…

Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States — a city sitting on the rolling piedmont plateau where the Appalachian foothills slope down toward the flat Atlantic coastal plain of the American Southeast. In…

The launch site sits at Baikonur, Kazakhstan, deep in the steppe grassland that stretches between the Caspian Sea to the west and the Aral Sea to the east. On 3 November 1957, the Soviet Union…

This event unfolded across China — the world's most populous country, occupying the eastern portion of Asia between the Himalayas to the southwest, the Gobi Desert to the north, and the Pacific Ocean…

The Ho Chi Minh Trail wound through the Truong Son Mountains — the long ridge running down the spine of the Indochinese Peninsula, flanked by the South China Sea to the east and the Mekong lowlands…

This is Havana, the capital of Cuba — the large Caribbean island sitting just 90 miles south of Florida's tip, where the Gulf of Mexico meets the Atlantic. On January 1, 1959, Fidel Castro's…

This event unfolded in Léopoldville — today called Kinshasa — the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, positioned deep in the Congo River basin at the heart of central Africa, exactly as…

This event is rooted in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, situated on the Potomac River along the Atlantic coastal plain, east of the Appalachian Mountains and roughly midway up…

Ottawa, Canada's capital city on the Ottawa River in the country's southeast — just north of the Great Lakes and the U.S. border — was the administrative heart of a devastating child welfare policy…

This event took place in Sharpeville, a township in the Transvaal region of what is today South Africa — on the broad, elevated interior plateau that forms the heart of the continent's southern tip…

On February 1, 1960, four Black freshmen from North Carolina A&T — Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., and David Richmond — sat at the segregated F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in…

This event unfolded in Guatemala City, the capital of Guatemala — a highland country sitting on the narrow Central American isthmus, exactly where the land bridge between North and South America…

This was Raleigh, North Carolina — sitting right on the Atlantic coastal plain, roughly halfway up the eastern seaboard, with the Appalachian Mountains rising to the west and the Atlantic coast just…

This is Asmara, the highland capital of Eritrea — a slender country hugging the Red Sea's western coast where the Horn of Africa reaches toward the Arabian Peninsula. Beginning in 1961, Eritrean…

This is Seoul, the capital of South Korea — a city on the Korean Peninsula, the finger of land that extends southward from the Asian continent between the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan. In May…

Beginning May 4, 1961, interracial groups of activists organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) rode interstate buses through the Deep South to force enforcement of Supreme Court rulings…

The Apollo Program was formally organized and funded at facilities centered on Cape Canaveral, on Florida's Atlantic coast — a thin strip of land where the Gulf of Mexico's warm waters nearly meet…

This event unfolded in Berlin, the historic capital sitting on the North European Plain in what was then divided Germany — a country flanked by the Rhine to the west and the Oder River marking its…

The Bay of Pigs sits on the southern coast of Cuba — the largest island in the Caribbean, lying roughly 150 kilometres south of Florida across the Straits of Florida. In April 1961, around 1,500…

Washington D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard of North America along the Potomac River, roughly halfway up the Atlantic coast between the Appalachian Mountains and…

This is Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, situated on the Potomac River along the Atlantic seaboard, wedged between the states of Maryland and Virginia just east of the Appalachian…

Albany, Georgia, in the southeastern United States — sitting on the flat coastal plain well south of the Appalachian Mountains and roughly halfway between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard of North America, wedged between the states of Maryland and Virginia along the Potomac River — exactly the…

This is Johannesburg, South Africa — a city perched on a high inland plateau near the southern tip of the African continent, thousands of kilometres from the nearest ocean coast. In December 1961…

Cape Canaveral, on the Atlantic coast of Florida — the narrow peninsula pointing southeast where North America's landmass tapers toward the Caribbean — was the launch site. On February 20, 1962…

Boston, Massachusetts, on the northeastern Atlantic coast of the United States, is where Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was published in 1962 — exactly the densely populated eastern seaboard the title…

This was Havana, Cuba — the island nation sitting in the Caribbean Sea just 90 miles south of the Florida peninsula, exactly where those reconnaissance flights detected the missiles. In 1962, U.S…

Nassau in the Bahamas and Washington were the diplomatic backdrop, but the programme itself was rooted in the United Kingdom — the island nation off northwest Europe's Atlantic edge, separated from…

The disputed Aksai Chin region, controlled by China and wedged between the Tibetan plateau and the Karakoram range on the northwestern edge of the Himalayas, was the flashpoint of the brief but…

In spring 1963, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led by Martin Luther King Jr. and local organizer Fred Shuttlesworth, launched a sustained nonviolent campaign in Birmingham…

This is Saigon, in southern Vietnam — a city sitting in the Mekong Delta lowlands near the southern end of the long Indochinese Peninsula, flanked by the South China Sea to the east and the Gulf of…

This is Tehran, the capital of Iran — a city sitting on a high plateau south of the Alborz Mountains, roughly midway between the Caspian Sea to the north and the Persian Gulf to the south. In 1963…

This is Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay — a small nation wedged between Argentina and Brazil on the southeastern Atlantic coast of South America, right where the vast Río de la Plata estuary opens…

This event unfolded in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas — a sprawling city set on the flat interior plains of the southern United States, hundreds of miles north of the Gulf of Mexico and well inland…

Moscow, the capital of Russia (then the Soviet Union), sits on the East European Plain roughly 900 kilometres east of the Baltic Sea, deep inside the largest country on Earth by land area. In 1963…

On 12 December 1963, Kenya became independent from British colonial rule, with Jomo Kenyatta becoming its first Prime Minister and later its first President. Kenya had been a British colony since the…

This event took place in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, situated on the Potomac River along the Atlantic coastal plain, east of the Appalachian Mountains. In 1963, hundreds of…

This is Maputo, the capital of Mozambique — a country hugging southeastern Africa's Indian Ocean coast, wedged between Tanzania to the north and South Africa to the south. Beginning in 1964, a…

The tanks rolled into Brasília, Brazil — a purpose-built inland capital sitting on the high central plateau called the Planalto Central, exactly as the clue described, deep in South America's largest…

The incident took place in the Gulf of Tonkin, the body of water hugging the coast of northern Vietnam — exactly the narrow, enclosed sea arm between the Indochina Peninsula and China's Hainan…

Washington D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River on the eastern seaboard of North America — but the crisis that drove this decision unfolded thousands of miles away in the…

Atlantic City, New Jersey, on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States, sits roughly midway along the eastern seaboard between New York City to the north and the Chesapeake Bay to the south…

This was Africville, a historic Black community on the shores of Bedford Basin in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — sitting precisely on that deep tidal inlet that fingers inland from the Atlantic along…

Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard between the Appalachian Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay — exactly the Atlantic coast the title clue pointed…

This conflict was centered on Salisbury — now Harare — the capital of present-day Zimbabwe, a landlocked country sitting on a high plateau in southern Africa, bounded by the Zambezi River to the…

Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa on the Highveld plateau, was the venue for the Rivonia Trial (1963–64) at the Palace of Justice in Church Square. Nelson Mandela and seven other…

This is Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam — sitting on the Red River delta where the narrow Indochinese Peninsula faces the Gulf of Tonkin, just inland from the South China Sea. Beginning in March…

The launch site is Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in what is now Kazakhstan — a vast, flat steppe deep in the heart of Central Asia, far inland from any ocean, north of Afghanistan and east of the…

Independence, Missouri — a small city on the Missouri River just east of Kansas City, sitting near the heart of the North American continent where the Great Plains give way to the Midwest — was the…

Cape Canaveral, on the Atlantic coast of Florida in the southeastern United States, is exactly the narrow, ocean-flanked peninsula where this mission launched. On June 3, 1965, astronaut Edward White…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the Atlantic coastal plain, east of the Appalachian Mountains — exactly the federal district the title clue pointed…

Selma, Alabama, in the southeastern United States — a city on the flat Gulf Coastal Plain, well inland from the Gulf of Mexico and south of the Appalachian Mountains — was the starting point of these…

This event unfolded across Indonesia — and especially its capital, Jakarta — an archipelago of over 17,000 islands draped across the equator between the Indian Ocean to the south and the South China…

This mission was directed from Pasadena, California — a city nestled against the San Gabriel Mountains in the Los Angeles Basin, close to the Pacific coast of North America. On July 14–15, 1965…

This mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida — the narrow Atlantic-facing cape on the southeastern tip of the North American continent, where the Florida peninsula juts into the ocean between…

This was Beijing, the capital of China — sitting on the North China Plain, the great flat lowland that stretches between the Yellow River to the south and the mountains ringing the north, at the…

This is Jerusalem, the ancient hilltop city in Israel, sitting at the heart of the narrow land bridge where the African continent meets Asia — exactly where the Mediterranean coast, the Jordan River…

This event is centred on Enugu, a city in southeastern Nigeria — a country sitting on the Gulf of Guinea where West Africa's coastline curves sharply eastward toward the Bight of Biafra. In 1967, the…

La Higuera, Bolivia — a tiny village high in the Andes of landlocked South America, exactly the remote highland terrain the title described. In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, the Argentine-born Marxist…

This event unfolded in Memphis, Tennessee — a city on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, where the river's broad lowlands brush against the last ridges of the Appalachian highlands in the…

This is Belfast, the main city of Northern Ireland, occupying the northeastern corner of the island of Ireland — separated from mainland Britain by the Irish Sea and from the open Atlantic by…

My Lai is a village in Quang Ngai Province, in what is now central Vietnam — on the thin coastal lowland squeezed between the Annamite Mountains to the west and the South China Sea to the east. On…

This is Ho Chi Minh City — known as Saigon at the time — in Vietnam, the long, narrow country hugging the eastern edge of the Indochinese Peninsula along the South China Sea, exactly where the Mekong…

Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia — sitting in a temperate river basin right in the landlocked heart of Central Europe, south of the Baltic Sea and north of the great curving arc of the Danube…

This event unfolded at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City — a dense island borough wedged between the Hudson River and the Atlantic-facing coast of North America, with…

Cape Canaveral, on the Atlantic coast of Florida — the long, narrow peninsula that hangs south from the North American mainland toward the Caribbean — was the launch site for Apollo 11 in July 1969…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the Atlantic seaboard of North America, nestled between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Atlantic…

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair took place August 15-18 1969 on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel New York. Around 400,000 to 500,000 people attended despite the event being vastly undersupplied…

Seoul, South Korea — the capital sitting near the northern end of a peninsula that hangs from the Asian mainland between the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan — was the command center for the 1970…

This is Montreal, Canada — the island city sitting where the St. Lawrence River broadens on its journey from the Great Lakes toward the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Atlantic. In October 1970, a…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the East Coast of North America — on the western shore of the North Atlantic, roughly midway up the continent's eastern seaboard between…

This is Kent, Ohio, in the United States — a midwestern university town sitting in the broad, flat terrain south of Lake Erie, one of the five Great Lakes that straddle the US-Canada border. On May…

This event unfolded in Cambodia, a landlocked nation on the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, tucked between the Mekong River to its east and the Cardamom Mountains to its west, with Vietnam…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the Atlantic seaboard, roughly midway up the eastern edge of North America between the Appalachians and the ocean…

This is Dhaka, now the capital of Bangladesh — sitting in the vast delta where the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal, with India wrapping around it on three sides. In March…

This event unfolded in Washington D.C., the capital of the United States, situated on the Potomac River along the Atlantic coastal plain east of the Appalachian Mountains — exactly the geographic…

This event unfolded in Munich, the largest city in Bavaria, southern Germany — sitting on the broad plain that stretches north from the Alps toward the Rhine and Danube river systems. During the 1972…

Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China, sits on the North China Plain — exactly that broad lowland stretching between the Gobi Desert to the north and the Himalayan plateau to the…

This was Quang Tri province, in northern South Vietnam — right along the narrow coastal strip where the country pinches between the South China Sea to the east and the Annamite mountain range to the…

This is Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam — a city sitting on the Red River delta in the northern part of a long, thin peninsula that stretches southward from the Chinese border into the South China Sea…

This is Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, built on the Potomac River where it cuts through the low coastal plain between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic coast. In 1972…

This was Antananarivo, the highland capital of Madagascar — the giant island sitting in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa, separated from the continent by the Mozambique Channel…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard of North America — a country stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico…

This is the Suez Canal, Egypt — the narrow artificial waterway cutting through the northeastern corner of Africa where the continent nearly touches the Sinai Peninsula, separating the Red Sea's Gulf…

This ruling came from Washington, D.C., the United States capital — a planned federal district sitting on the Potomac River's banks, where the flat Atlantic coastal plain meets the rolling piedmont…

This event unfolded in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, situated on the Potomac River along the eastern seaboard between the Atlantic coast and the Appalachian Mountains. In…

This is Santiago, the capital of Chile — a country famously shaped like a ribbon, pressed between the Andes mountain range to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west, stretching far into the…

Paris, France — the city straddling the Seine River in the heart of Western Europe — is where the January 27, 1973 Paris Peace Accords were signed, ending direct United States military involvement in…

This is Ho Chi Minh City — formerly Saigon — in southern Vietnam, sitting in the Mekong River delta where that long, narrow Southeast Asian peninsula tapers toward its southern tip between the Gulf…

This event unfolded at Laayoune, the main city of Western Sahara — a narrow, largely desert territory hugging Africa's northwestern Atlantic coast, directly south of Morocco and the Strait of…

This is Foz do Iguaçu, on the Brazilian side of the Paraná River — the natural border between Brazil and Paraguay in the heart of South America. In 1975, construction began on the Itaipu Dam, a…

This is Cabinda, a small Angolan exclave on the central Atlantic coast of Africa, physically separated from the rest of Angola by a strip of the Democratic Republic of the Congo — exactly the…

This was Helsinki, Finland — a city perched on a rocky peninsula where the Baltic Sea narrows into the Gulf of Finland, directly south of the Scandinavian landmass and north across the water from…

The launch site is Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in what is now Kazakhstan — a sprawling, semi-desert steppe plateau deep in central Asia, roughly midway between the Caspian Sea to the west and the…

This is Santiago, the capital of Chile — a city pressed between the Andes Mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west, in the long, narrow country that runs down South America's…

This is Beirut, the capital of Lebanon — a narrow coastal strip on the eastern Mediterranean, pressed between the sea to the west and the Lebanon Mountains rising sharply inland, with Syria to the…

This is Luanda, the capital of Angola — a port city on the Atlantic coast of southwestern Africa, sitting just north of the Tropic of Capricorn on the side of the continent that faces South America…

This conflict was centred on Addis Ababa, the high-altitude capital of Ethiopia — the nation occupying the Horn of Africa where the continent's eastern tip reaches closest to the Arabian Peninsula…

This is the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina — a historic square sitting at the edge of the Río de la Plata estuary, where the great rivers draining South America's interior pour into the…

This event is centred on Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia — a landlocked country in mainland Southeast Asia, sitting in the basin of the Mekong River, wedged between Vietnam to the east and…

This is Maputo, the capital of Mozambique — on southeastern Africa's Indian Ocean coast, directly east of Zimbabwe and south of Tanzania, exactly where that long shoreline faces the warm Mozambique…

This is Kampala, the capital of Uganda — a landlocked country sitting on the northern shore of Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa, on the high East African plateau between the western and…

This event unfolded in Beijing, the capital of China — a city sitting on the North China Plain, inland from the Yellow Sea, anchoring the northern heartland of the world's most populous nation…

Camp David is a presidential retreat nestled in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, United States — part of the Appalachian chain running along the eastern edge of North America, roughly 100…

The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant sits on an island in the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — in the rolling Appalachian foothills of the northeastern United States, roughly…

This is Kabul, the high-altitude capital of Afghanistan — a landlocked nation sitting in the heart of Asia, where the Hindu Kush mountains divide Central Asia from the Indian subcontinent, east of…

This was Tehran, the capital of Iran — a high-altitude city sitting on the Iranian Plateau, backed by the snow-capped Alborz Mountains and positioned between the Caspian Sea to the north and the…

This is San Salvador, capital of El Salvador — a small, densely populated country on the Pacific coast of the Central American isthmus, exactly where the land bridge linking North and South America…

This fighting took place near Lang Son, a border town in northern Vietnam — exactly where the rugged highlands of southern China spill across the frontier into the narrow northern neck of the…

This event unfolded in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China — the great northern city sitting on the North China Plain, where the Hai River system drains toward the Bohai Sea. In…

This event unfolded in Gdańsk, a port city on Poland's Baltic coast, where the flat North European Plain reaches the southern edge of the Baltic Sea — the inland sea separating Scandinavia from the…

This event unfolded in Gwangju, South Korea — a city in the southwestern corner of the Korean Peninsula, roughly equidistant between the Yellow Sea to the west and the peninsula's southern coast. In…

This is St. John's, Newfoundland, on Canada's far eastern coast — the point where the island of Newfoundland pushes out into the North Atlantic, closer to Ireland than to Vancouver. In April 1980…

Cairo straddles the Nile River at the point where the river spreads into its delta, in the flat alluvial plain of northern Egypt between the Eastern Desert and the Libyan Desert. On 6 October 1981…

This is Warsaw, the capital of Poland — sitting on the Vistula River across the flat North European Plain, exactly as the clue described, wedged between Germany to the west and Russia to the east. On…

This event unfolded in Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States, situated on the Potomac River along the Atlantic coastal plain, flanked to the west by the Appalachian Mountains. In…

The fighting took place around Port Stanley, capital of the Falkland Islands — a British overseas territory sitting in the South Atlantic about 300 miles off the southern tip of South America, near…

This event unfolded in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso — a landlocked nation sitting on the flat, semi-arid Sahel belt just south of the Sahara in West Africa, hemmed in by Mali to the north…

This is Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka — the teardrop-shaped island sitting just off the southern tip of India, separated from the subcontinent by the narrow Palk Strait. In July 1983, anti-Tamil…

The shootdown occurred over Sakhalin Island, a long narrow island belonging to Russia, sitting in the sea between Japan to the south and the Russian Far East mainland to the west — exactly the island…

This is Saint George's, the capital of Grenada — a small island nation in the southeastern Caribbean, roughly 160 kilometres north of Venezuela's coast and far south of the main island chain's larger…

This strike was centred on the Yorkshire coalfield in northern England — part of the island of Great Britain, separated from France by the English Channel to the south. In 1984, miners walked off the…

The signing took place in Beijing, the capital of China — the vast continental power whose southern coastline reaches down to the South China Sea, where the island territory of Hong Kong sits at the…

Bhopal sits inland on the Deccan Plateau in the state of Madhya Pradesh, well north of Sri Lanka in the heart of the Indian subcontinent — precisely the plateau city the disaster's location…

This event took place in Ottawa, Canada's capital, situated on the Ottawa River where it forms the border between the country's two most populous provinces — exactly that inland position between the…

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sits near Pripyat, in northern Ukraine — on the broad lowland plains east of Europe, north of the Black Sea, and just south of the border with Belarus. On April 26…

Washington, D.C. — the federal capital of the United States, positioned on the Potomac River along the Atlantic seaboard between the Appalachian Mountains and the eastern coast — is where President…

Gaza City is the principal city of the Gaza Strip, the narrow coastal plain between the Mediterranean Sea and the Negev desert, bordered by Israel to the north and east and Egypt (Sinai) to the…

This speech took place at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Germany — an island of Western-aligned territory sitting entirely within Soviet-controlled East Germany, on the broad flat plain that…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the Atlantic coastal plain of eastern North America, roughly midway between the Appalachian Mountains to the west…

This is Berlin, the capital of Germany, sitting in the broad North European Plain between the Rhine basin to the west and the Oder River — the natural boundary with Poland — to the east. On November…

This is Monrovia, the capital of Liberia — a country on West Africa's Atlantic coast, tucked between Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Côte d'Ivoire, facing the Gulf of Guinea. In December 1989, Charles…

This is Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia — a landlocked city in the heart of Central Europe, sitting between the Alps to the south and the arc of the Carpathians to the east, drained by the…

This is Bucharest, the capital of Romania — sitting on the Wallachian Plain just south of the Carpathian arc, close to the Danube where it forms Romania's southern border before swinging east to the…

This is Prague, the capital of what was then Czechoslovakia — a landlocked country nestled in the very centre of Europe, where the Carpathian Mountains curve around from the east and the Bohemian…

This is Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China — the immense paved plaza at the symbolic centre of the North China Plain, where the ancient imperial capital sits between the Taihang Mountains to the west…

Victor Verster Prison (now Drakenstein Correctional Centre) lies in the Berg River valley near Paarl, in the Western Cape of South Africa. The valley is flanked by the granite Drakenstein Mountains…

This scene unfolded at Pushkin Square in Moscow, Russia — a city sitting on the vast East European Plain, roughly halfway between the Ural Mountains to the east and the Baltic Sea to the west. On…

This event unfolded in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda — a small, densely hilled country in east-central Africa, sitting on the Great Rift Valley's watershed between the Congo Basin to the west and the…

This standoff took place near Oka, Quebec, Canada — in the St. Lawrence lowlands, the narrow fertile corridor between the Canadian Shield to the north and the US border to the south, where the St…

This event unfolded in Moscow, Russia — the capital city sitting on the flat East European Plain, roughly equidistant between the Baltic Sea to the northwest and the Caspian Sea to the southeast, at…

This event took place at CERN, the particle physics laboratory straddling the border between France and Switzerland near Geneva, nestled between the Jura Mountains to the northwest and the Alps to…

New Delhi, the capital of India, sits on the broad plains of the Ganges-Indus heartland — flanked by the Himalayas to the north and tapering toward the Indian Ocean to the south, exactly the…