Imperialism
This was the American belief that they had the right and duty to settle and control the entirety of North America.
Manifest Destiny
This political ideology took the world by storm in 1917
Communism
This Boney M song shares its name with its subject, a prominent Russian mystic and faith healer.
Rasputin
This English king is most well-known for his 6 wives who are the subject of a hit musical.
Henry VIII
This city was the site of the detonation of the first-ever nuclear weapon deployed against military targets.
Hiroshima
This empire controlled over a quarter of the world's land mass at its height.
British Empire
This 20th century ideology derived its name from an ancient Roman symbol
Fascism
This 1974 Abba song inherits its name from the 1815 battle that marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
Waterloo
This famous Roman's name has been used for centuries across language and culture as a ruler's title
Caesar
This nuclear disaster has become a major influence on media within North America and Europe
Chernobyl
This European Power invaded the last independent African Country
Italy
This women's rights group was one of the first activist groups to ever be described with the word 'militant'
The Suffragettes/suffrage Movement
This popular pop song from 2013 uses the name of a famous volcanic eruption as its title and as inspiration for its lyrics
Pompeii
The Hudson's Bay Company was founded and declared bankruptcy under monarchs reigning under this regnal name.
Charles II (1670) and Charles III (yesterday)
This event led to the first and only invocation of article 5 of the NATO treaty.
9/11
This mind-altering substance lent its name to the eponymous war that marked the beginning of the Century of Humiliation in China.
Opium
The Black-Panther Party in the USA was a prominent member of this African-American movement
Black-Power Movement
a term used to refer to songs sung while sailing or boating.
Sea Shanty
This Korean King fell off his horse in 1404
King Taejong
This ill-fated ocean liner was survived by sister ships RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic.
Titanic
This notorious British Colonist was the governor of Cape Colony and lent his name to former British Colonies in Africa, and an international scholarship program at Oxford
Cecil Rhodes
This world leader is best known in online circles for his liberal use of nuclear weapons in the hit 4X strategy game series Civilization
Mahatma Gandhi
This Military ensemble has covered songs such as "Get Lucky by daftpunk", "Happy by Pharrell Williams", and "Skyfall by Adele Cover".
Alexandrov Ensemble or Red Army Choir
Queen Liliʻuokalani was the last Queen of this country
Hawaii
This disaster destroyed much of the newly-incorporated Vancouver in 1886.
Vancouver Fire