During the Cold War, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles viewed the neutrality of the Non-Aligned Movement as "immoral," believing all nations had to choose a side between the US and the Soviet Union.
Soviet leader Gorbachev's policy of allowing Eastern European nations to choose their own political path was humorously nicknamed the 'Sinatra Doctrine' because they could finally do it 'My Way'.
The now-common structure of separating government into legislative, executive, and judicial branches was an Enlightenment idea from philosopher Montesquieu, designed to prevent tyranny.
The 1956 Suez Crisis marked a major shift in global power when the United States and the Soviet Union forced Britain and France to end their invasion of Egypt, signaling the decline of the old European empires.
