Revolutions and Coups
This 1799 coup brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power in France.
What is the Coup of 18 Brumaire?
This 16th-century philosopher wrote "The Prince," emphasizing pragmatic and sometimes ruthless statecraft.
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?
This 1648 treaty ended the Thirty Years’ War and established the modern system of sovereign states.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This 1970s scandal in the U.S. led to President Nixon’s resignation.
What is Watergate?
This institution passes laws in a parliamentary system.
What is the legislature (parliament)?
This 1917 Russian revolution overthrew the Provisional Government.
What is the October Revolution (Bolshevik Revolution)?
This English philosopher argued for natural rights and the social contract, influencing modern liberal democracy.
Who is John Locke?
This event occured after the final defeat of Napoleon to ensure that nothing like this can never happen again? Only 5 years later the first downstream effects of his nationlism would be felt
What is the Congress of Vinnea
This 1920s scandal in the United Kingdom involved officials accepting bribes related to military contracts.
What is the Marconi scandal?
This judicial body interprets laws and can declare them unconstitutional.
What is the judiciary (or supreme court)?
This 1973 coup in South America ousted Chilean President Salvador Allende and was replaced by this man.
Who is Agusto Pinochet?
This 19th-century thinker co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" and influenced revolutionary socialist movements.
Who is Karl Marx?
This 1972 agreement between the U.S. and USSR limited strategic nuclear weapons.
What is SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty)?
In Japan, this 1980s scandal involved Prime Minister Nakasone’s government and allegations of corruption in the stock market.
What is the Recruit scandal?
This type of government divides authority between national and regional governments.
What is federalism?
This 1952 revolution ended the monarchy in Egypt and established a republic.
What is the Egyptian Revolution?
This political theorist wrote "Leviathan," advocating for a strong sovereign to maintain social order.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This 1995 agreement created the World Trade Organization to regulate international trade.
What is the Marrakesh Agreement?
This 2000s scandal in France involved President Jacques Chirac and city hall officials in embezzlement and illegal employment practices.
What is the Paris corruption scandal?
This mechanism allows citizens to vote directly on proposed laws or constitutional amendments.
What is a referendum?
This 1968 invasion crushed the Prague Spring reforms in Czechoslovakia.
What is the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia?
This 20th-century theorist argued that totalitarian regimes manipulate ideology and propaganda to maintain power.
Who is Hannah Arendt?
This 1867 treaty facilitated the transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States.
What is the Alaska Purchase Treaty?
This scandal in Brazil in the 2010s involved massive corruption at the state oil company Petrobras and implicated numerous politicians.
What is Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato)?
This global organization, established in 1945, aims to maintain international peace and security.
What is the United Nations?