Motions

History motions

82 motions tagged History, A to Z. Practise any of them with a prep timer.

  • A Ház bánja az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia felbomlását.

  • As Dr. Oppenheimer, THW stop the Manhattan project

  • Assuming feasibility, This House Would erase the historical memory of colonialism.

  • Assuming this independence would have happened post-abolishment of Jim Crow legislation; TH, as the leftist movement, P a world in which the South would be independent from the rest of the United States

  • For the sake of this debate, assume that damnatio memoriae can be done perfectly in that future generations will have no knowledge of this person. For example, erasing all knowledge of Adolf Hitler but retaining the history of the Holocaust. THS the use of "damnatio memoriae"

  • Given all ex member states have agreed, TH would reinstall Yugoslavia

    International Relations

  • In September 1991, THBT the government of the independent Latvia should have published this information

  • In post-colonial societies, THBT local intellectuals who produced knowledge that justifies colonial presence (e.g., scholars whose lectures taught colonization was a path to modernity or artists who encouraged people to partake in colonial expansion) should be tried and punished as war criminals.

  • In post-conflict states, This house would fabricate history to establish narratives and evidence of a shared history (i.e. different communities having lived peacefully in the past, successes achieved together).

    Colgate Open 2025

  • TH Prefers a world where Bulgaria joined Yugoslavia

    Zagreb Pre-WUDC 2025

  • TH prefers a world where the ANC had more aggressively pursued economic and land reparations during the negotiations in ending the apartheid

  • TH regrets the role of royal marriages in consolidating empires

  • TH, as Brutus, W kill Caesar

  • TH, as Caesar, W cross the Rubicon

    Politics

  • TH, as Edward VIII, W abdicate to marry Wallis Simpson.

  • TH, as Slobodan Praljak, would not have drunk the poison

  • TH, as a man born into aristocracy in Ancient Rome, would chose to be a warrior over an intellectual

  • TH, as the British government in 1942 W materially and publicly support the Chetniks instead of the Partisans.

  • TH, as the Slovenian people, regrets not accepting Emperor Karl's offer in 1918 and remaining a part of Austria

  • TH, as the last warrior of Masada, would not commit suicide

  • TH, as the son, would oppose the Great Wall

  • THBT Alfred Nobel's legacy should emphasize his role as the merchant of death.

  • THBT Japan should shame its soldiers who participated in WWII, including those who did not commit war crimes themselves

  • THBT it is in the interest of Bulgaria to have followed the Bled Agreement and become a republic of Yugoslavia

  • THBT post-war socieites should falsify history in order to ensure peace.

  • THBT states formerly under the rule of the Soviet Union should not emphasize their history of struggle against Russian imperialism in constructing their national identity

  • THBT the Mossad should arrest Eichmann in Argentina

    Canadian Parliamentary Pro-Ams 2025

  • THBT the Operation Anthropoid was morally illegitimate

  • THO the glorification of self sacrifice in historic military narratives.

  • THP a world in which newly independent nations had decentralised colonial religions.

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