Africa
President Carter helped negotiate the Camp David Accords between Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, president of this country.
What is Egypt?
The essay "The End of History?" was written for the National Interest in this year.
What is 1989?
The doctrine or program of the Bolsheviks advocating violent overthrow of capitalism.
What is Bolshevism?
Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese defeated this European force at Dien Bien Phu in 1954
What is France?
This conservative party member became Britain's 3rd prime minister in 51 days on October 25, 2022.
Who is Rishi Sunak?
At its current pace of growth this country is projected to become the 3rd most populous nation in the world by 2050.
What is Nigeria?
The ending of this half-century conflict inspired the author to write this essay.
What is the Cold War?
The political doctrine and practice of unlimited centralized authority, as vested especially in a monarch or dictator
What is absolutism?
The Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence on 28 February 1922 was the formal legal instrument by which this colonial power recognized Egypt as an independent sovereign state.
What is the United Kingdom? (Great Britain)
Tsai Ing-wen became the first female president of this Asian country in 2016.
What is Republic of China? (Taiwan)
The Arab Spring began in December, 2010, in this North African country.
What is Tunisia?
The author of this fascinating essay.
Who is Francis Fukuyama?
A political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader.
The Belgian government transferred control from Leopold II and established the Belgian Congo in 1908 before eventually granting the central African nation independence in June 1960.
What is the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
This world leader met with President Biden in Washington D.C., the first week of March 2023 to discuss the threat of China aiding Russia in its war with Ukraine.
Who is Olaf Scholz?
In December 1992, the United States began Operation Restore Hope in this country to provide famine relief.
What is Somalia?
This man predicted the End of History would result in a communist utopia.
Who is Karl Marx?
A political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise.
What is Liberalism?
Islands in the Pacific whose people fought back against American colonial rule from 1899-1902.
What are the Philippines?
This Israeli Prime Minister and his allies denounced protesters as “anarchists” after they massed outside a Tel Aviv hair salon where his wife was getting her hair done.
Who is Benjamin Netanyahu?
Civil War broke out in Rwanda in 1994 and resulted in genocide when the majority Hutu militia killed over 500,000 members of this ethnic minority.
Who are the Tutsi?
The roots of the author's thesis are found in this philosopher's belief that history culminated in an absolute moment in which a final, rational form of society and state became victorious.
Who was Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel?
This theory argues that all written history involves interpretation and every historian writes from a frame of reference containing his judgments on the necessary, the possible and the desirable.
What is historical relativism?
A successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule occurred on this Caribbean island in a series of conflicts between 1791 and 1804.
What is Haiti? (or Santo Domingo)
Meeting in Canada recently, these 2 leaders, Canadian Prime Minister and the European Commission president agreed to develop cross-Atlantic trade in green hydrogen to help the EU meet its energy needs.
Who are Justin Trudeau and Ursula von der Leyen?