History
This is the year the United Nations came to existence.
When is 1945?
The British Royal Family is part of this system of government.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
This U.S. Amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Big Brother is the leader of the dystopian regime in this novel.
What is 1984?
This philosopher argues that life in the state of nature will be nasty, brutish, short, solitary, and poor.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This is the first American President to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This famous revolution sought to eradicate 'bourgeois' elements from the society of this nation between the years of 1966 and 1976.
What is the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, China?
The controversial 2004 presidential election in Ukraine led to this revolution.
What is the Orange Revolution?
This Huxley novel describes a world where life is controlled by the state.
What is Brave New World?
The concept of perpetual peace was suggested by this famous philosopher.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
This is the geopolitical strategy used to stop the spread of Communism.
What is containment?
This 1996 report called for sweeping changes to address the history of colonialism, the impact of residential schools, and the rights of Indigenous peoples in Canada.
What is the The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples?
This is the first nation to introduce compulsory voting, in 1894.
What is Belgium?
This author wrote a foundational text in feminist philosophy that argues women have historically been treated as "the Other"?
Who is Simone de Beauvoir?
This term refers to a pragmatic approach to politics, one focused on power rather than ideology.
What is Realpolitik?
This 17th Century treaty ended the Thirty Years War.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
This cultural practice, historically linked to protests against British colonial rule, was used by Mahatma Gandhi as a symbol of resistance during India’s independence movement.
What is spinning khadi (homespun cloth)?
This individual won the 2005 presidential election in his nation, and became the first Indigenous president of his country.
Who is Evo Morales?
This Czech author is associated with anti-communist resistance and critiques of totalitarianism.
Who is Václav Havel?
This theorist developed the concept of sovereign power and biopower as two forms of power over life in political theory.
Who is Michel Foucault?
This person was the first independent leader of Ghana, and promoted the following ideology.
Who is Kwame Nkrumah and What is Pan-Africanism?
The copying and distribution of banned literature in the Soviet Union was called this name.
What is samizdat?
In 2017, this African nations' presidential elections were annulled by the Supreme Court.
What is Kenya?
This famous Canadian author wrote Two Solitudes, a novel that explores tensions between English and French Canada.
Who is Hugh MacLennan?
This Canadian political theorist explored the concept of 'shared sovereignty' in his work on Quebec and Canadian federalism.
Who is James Tully?