The rule of law is a constitutional idea that keeps everyone, including those who establish and implement laws, accountable to the law. Tyranny is a sort of tyranny in which rulers can make any laws they want, which is a form of tyranny that threatens liberty.
Fascism is defined by an extreme type of nationalism in which the media is completely under the authority of the state and individual rights are restricted, particularly as witnessed in Spain under Franco and Italy under Mussolini. In most cases, it also has a totalitarian ruler whose authority is unquestionable.
The desire to buy something and the means to pay for it are referred to as demand.
In 1941, the United States and Great Britain agreed to the terms of the Atlantic Charter. It outlined the optimum course of action for the conflict and the creation of the post-war world. Later, it received the backing of the other allies, which sparked the founding of the United Nations.
Citizenship in the United States is essential to serve in both chambers of Congress.
The proper answer is bias. Because bias is an opinion that obviously promotes one point of view over another, this is the acceptable response.
A new nation for the Jewish people to be established in Palestine was suggested in the 1917 Balfour Declaration. Israel would eventually be the name of this country. The achievement of an autonomous Jewish nation marks a significant turning point in the Zionist cause.
In recognition of his efforts in establishing the League of Nations in the years immediately following World War One, Woodrow Wilson received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919.
Except for Russia, which transitioned from monarchy to socialism and then toward the end of the twentieth century (with the fall of the Soviet Union) to limited democracy, all of these nations were under the control of fascism at some point in the century.
The Anglo-Russian Entente was ratified in 1907, solidifying the Triple Entente, which is French for "friendship." While the UK and France ended their centuries-long imperial rivalry in 1904, the French and Russians had already formed an alliance in 1894.
The purpose of checks and balances, as the word implies, is to ensure that no single branch of government has too much authority, and it creates a separation of powers.
Vladimir Lenin served as the first leader of the Soviet Union, which was founded in 1922. Lenin was a key figure in the Russian Revolution, which resulted in the destruction of the monarchy and the establishment of socialism.
The veto is the President's power to refuse to sign a bill or joint resolution and so prevent it from becoming law.
Germany, Japan, and Italy comprised the Axis Powers during World War Two. They engaged in combat with the Soviet Union, Britain, France, the United States, and the Allied Powers.
A constitutional amendment is a change to a polity's, organization's, or another sort of entity's constitution.
Demand decreases when prices rise, according to the law of supply and demand.
Germany and the Allied powers signed the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. It symbolizes the conclusion of World War One.
During the 1917 Russian Revolution, the long-established Russian monarchy was overthrown and replaced by a communist government.
In the latter months of World War II, the Potsdam Conference was held in occupied Germany. All of the Allied Powers were present, although President Truman, who represented the United States, Josef Stalin, who represented the Soviet Union, and Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and later Clement Attlee, who represented Great Britain, seem to get the most attention. To deliberate how to punish Germany and how to restore the world after the war, the Allied Powers gathered.
A veto is a formal authority to reject something.
