Midterm Exam Outline
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- Nietzche-German Philosopher
- Superman theory-foundation for Nazi party
- Charles Darwin
- Theory of Evolution
- Karl Marx-German Philosopher
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Father of Communism
Text Books: Communist Manifesto (Marx/Ingles),Das Kapital - Sigmund Freud-German Psychologist
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Father of Psychoanalysis Practice
ID,Ego,Superego - William Roentgen
- Father of X-Ray technology
- Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch
- Proved bacteria to be cause of diseases and controlled by inoculations
- Wright Brothers
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Discovered air flight 1903;
North Carolina;Kitty Hawk - Alfred Nobel
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Invented dynamite but also instituted a prize for peace
Nobel Peace Prize - Marie and Pierre Curie
- Discovered radium and plutonium-foundation for atomic research
- Albert Einstein
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Father of atomic energy
E=MC2 Energy times speed of light squared - Joseph Lister
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Improved hygienic conditions in hospitals
Listerine - Andrew Carnegie
- Steel Tycoon and financed public buildings
- Thomas Edison
- Discovered the electric light
- Socialism
- A political system with a mixed economy-capitalism and extensive centralized social services
- Nationalism
- Loyalty to a nation and its common ideas
- Secularism
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Separation between Church and State
Religion is a private matter receiving neither prejudice nor preference in society - Syndicalism
- Pro Union: of society of unionized labor has the ability to paralyze society thereby becoming the leading governing structure within society itself
- Basic Capitalism
- The Profit Motive defining human behavior and the right to own property
- Modern Capitalism
- Profit Motive, Private Property, Upware Mobility and government regulated to produce revenue for public projects and protect the employee, consumer and environment
- Pure Capitalism
- Profit Motive, private property, no government regulation
- Communism
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Sought to eliminate economic inequalities inherent in early industrial and present day profit motive norms
Private Property,Religion,Profit Motive and Political Parties(except Communist Political Party)-outlawed
Dictatorship of the Proletariat, central planning and low standard of living-downfall - Imperialism
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One nation's ability to overthrow another nation, tribe or group based on superior technology and military training
Purpose-new resource potential and land - Strategic Imperalism
- A policy of controlling key waterways,ports, and military posts Panama Canal, Suez,Gibraltar
- Cultural Imperialism
- Importing one civilization over an existing cilivation in terms of buildings, food, music, political system, schools, language, clothing, art and upward mobility
- Laissez-faire
- A "hands off" economic policy-meaning less or minimal government regulation of business transactions
- Duma
- A Russian congress-designed to defuse popular social and economic reforms while the real power of the country remained with the Russian Czar, Nicholas II
- Alsace-Lorraine
- A disputed area on the German and France boarder-a source of French humiliation after the Franco-Prussian War(1870-71) that would be later re-taken at the end of World War 1 by the French, re-taken by the Germans during World War II and re-taken back by the French at the end of World War II
- Otto von Bismark
- Unified former German states as one nation
- Kaiser Wilham II
- A leader of the Germany people at the outbreak of World War I
- Nicholas II
- A leader of the Russian people at the outbreak of World War I
- The Dreyfus Case
- Army officer in France wrongly accused of selling secrets; revealed early anti-semitic sentiments in Europe
- Great Britain(also known as the United Kingdom, Britain or England)
- Liberal, Two-Party Democratic Government, Largest Empire
- Russia
- Authoritarian Monarchy and Expanding Empire
- Germany
- Growing Political, Military, and Industrial Power, Scattered Empire
- France
- Multi-Party Democratic System, Second Largest Empire
- Paul Kruger
- Afrikaner leader during the Boer Wars
- Lord Kitchner
- Established the re-conquest of the Sudan and British General
- Lord Lugard
- B. Governor-general of Nigeria and author of "indirect rule" -British
- King Leopold
- King of Belgium-established a private commercial venture-state in Africa
- The Colons
- French settlers in Northwest Africa opposed to granting French citizenship to natives
- Cecil Rhodes
- An English adventurer, business man, gold farmer, founding of Rhodesia(Africa), later South and North Rhodesia and creator of the Rhodes Scholarship(Oxford)
- Zulus
- A famous war-like empire tribe in South Africa
- Boer Wars
- A war between the British and Afrikaner's
- Sudan War
- A war between the British and local tribe who resented Egyptian control