Terms of Endearment
Before 1900
After 1900
United Notions
100

Describes a national fervor.

What is nationalism?

100

This enduring event encouraged the treaties of Westphalia in response.

What was the Thirty Years' War?

100

This predecessor of the UN failed to address the invasion of Abyssinia and Manchuria.

What was the League of Nations?

100

The Peace of Westphalia gave princes sovereignty and toleration for this set of beliefs.

What is religion?

200

A religious movement away from the Catholic church.

What was the Reformation?

200

A time lead by one French general that departed from the traditional system set by the Peace of Westphalia.

What was the Napoleonic era?

200

This war ended in an armistice that blamed Germany for initiating the war (which it did not do).

What is the first World War?

200

In 1948, this term was first coined to describe the dignity required for people to live free.

What are human rights?

300

This phrase describes entities that are not directly involved in a government, ranging from banks to terror groups.

What are non-state actors?

300

These two nations united in the mid-19th Century with aspirations towards republic.

What are Germany and Italy?

300

Woodrow Wilson is famous for his hopes laid out in this treatise after World War I.

What are the Fourteen Points?

300

The process of creating and institutionalizing an enduring government.

What is state-building?

400

This word, beginning its prominence at the Peace of Westphalia, expresses the supreme authority of a nation over its own state.

What is sovereignty?

400

This Austrian diplomat restored the national monarchs and the Westphalian order after the mess one naughty French general had made.

Who is (Klemens Von) Metternich?

400

The Soviet Union equivalent to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

What was the Warsaw Pact?

400

Raphael Lemkin innovated this phrase after the atrocities he observed in World War II.

What is genocide?

500

A retributory act that imposes economic embargoes or other limitations for political reasons.

What are sanctions?

500

The Berlin Congress acknowledged the independence of this Balkan nation in 1878.

What is Serbia?

500

This "new" trend described the European scramble for Africa and the creation of many more colonial claims.

What is New Imperialism?

500

The UN Security Council's permanent members are inspired by this notion that derives from the Berlin Congress in the 19th Century.

What is the Great Powers principle? (France, Russia, and the UK remain to be those Great Powers in the UN)