State Failures and Short-Lived Nations
The island republic annexed by the United States after the Spanish-American War in 1898.
What is the Suez Crisis?
Capital of Monaco.
What is Monaco?
The Hudson River School was primarily known for painting what subject matter?
What is the American Landscapes and wilderness?
This play by Tennessee Williams explores the tension between American social norms and individual desire.
What is A Streetcar named Desire?
Simon Bolivar is most closely associated with this temporary and rebellious state.
What is Gran Colombia?
Crisis solved by a massive Western airlift operation.
This capital was purposely built to replace Rio de Janeiro.
What is Brasilia?
The style of Edward Hopper.
What is American Realism?
What is Gravity's Rainbow?
Dissolving the Holy Roman Empire, Napoleon created this state in 1806 that encompassed most of Germany until 1813.
What is the Confederation of the Rhine?
A global oil embargo resulted from this 1973 conflict in Israeli territories.
What is the Yom Kippur War?
One of three in this country, not Cape Town or Bloemfontein.
What is Pretoria?
Art critic Harold Rosenberg coined the term "Action Painting" in 1952 to describe artists like this Abstract Expressionism pioneer.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
Narrative style characterized by free-flowing, improvisational prose that Kerouac is famous for.
What is Spontaneous prose?
A 1961 Syrian coup ended this state that began as a political union between Egypt and Syria a few years prior.
1968 reform movement in Czechoslovakia, protesting the ways of the USSR in its capital Prague.
What is the Prague Spring?
Not Sydney or Melbourne.
What is Canberra?
What is the Romanov dynasty?
This Cormac McCarthy novel and character is centered around a character who frequently decides other people's fates by flipping a coin.
What is No Country for Old Men and Antone?
With Japan continuing to increase its influence in northeastern China and Manchuria, this state existed from 1933 to the surrender of Japan in WWII.
What is Manchukuo?
Financial collapse after Thailand's baht devaluation which spread across Southeast Asia.
What is the Asian Financial Crisis?
This South American city is situated in a mountain valley, and consequently the highest capital in the world.
What is La Paz?
American director that is known for pioneering the use of "deep focus" cinematography in the 1940s, often collaborating with cinematographer Gregg Toland.
Who is Orson Welles?
Bob Dylan song often studied as modern American poetry for its use of vivid imagery and social critique.
What is The Times They Are A-Changin'?