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37 Cards in this Set
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Radar |
British physicist developed a better radar system in 1940, helped defeat German airforce in Battle of Britain |
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Alan Turing |
Developed a primitive computer to help British intelligence break secret German codes |
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Robert Oppenheimer |
American physicist, lead research on the atomic bomb |
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Sputnik |
First space satellite, launched in 1957 by Soviets |
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Government and Science |
Massive government funds financed the scientific research and technological advances in 1969 |
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Grace Hopper |
Important figure in the early development of the computer, Navy officer, important figure in early computer development |
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Computer |
An electronic device that is used to program and store data, according to the instructions that is given to |
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New View of the Universe |
The Universe is not a "collection of physical objects", but a complicated web of relations between "various parts of a unified whole" |
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E.F. Schumacher |
An internationally influential economic thinker, statistician, and economist in Britain |
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Air Pollution |
The contamination of air by smoke, or harmful gases |
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Chernobyl |
In Ukraine, an accident happened at a nuclear power station, causing radioactive contamination in parts of Europe |
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Green Parties |
Political parties, formed on the policies of green politics |
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Church Attendance |
Decreased dramatically as a result of growing secular attitudes |
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Fundamentalism |
Movement within Protestantism that arose early in the 20th century |
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Islamic Fundamentalism |
Reffered to a return to traditional Islamic values |
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Iranian Revolution |
Mullahs overthrow the US backed Shah and establish a theocracy that hated the US |
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Taliban |
Nation's militant fundamentalist Islamic rulers |
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Pope John Paul II |
First non-Italian pope since the 16th century, reasserted traditional Catholic teachings on issues |
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Neo-Expessionism |
Result of economic boom and free spending in the mid 1980s |
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Anslem Kefer |
Neo-Expessionist artist, combines abstract Expressionism, collage, and German Expressionism |
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Jean-Michel Banquiat |
Neo-Expessionist artist, originally a graffiti artist |
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Robert Mapplethorpe |
Photographer known for portraits of male nudes |
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NEA |
National Endowment of the Arts, budget reduced considerably for supporting indecency |
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Grunge Music |
Emerged in the early 1990s, questioned consumerism, sand of disillusionment and angst |
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Hip-hop |
Continued to gain popularity, music began to turn away from grunge and gangsta rap |
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Pop Music |
Artists and musicians became disenchanted with the excess of the Reagan Era, led to the emergence of grunge music in the early 1990s |
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Bill Gates |
Made the richest man in the world by the booming technology industry in the 1990s, several innovations in computers that made the essential devices for communication, information, and entertainment |
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Digital Age |
Began in the 1980s like, allowed for computer companies to compete for more powerful computers |
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World Wide Web |
The Internet, computerized system for information exchange |
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Nokia |
Largely responsible for Finlands fiscal stability. The sales of Nokia phones is nearly equal to the total Finnish budget |
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Apple |
2001 introduced the iPod that revolutionized the music industry |
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Digital Music |
Music stored digitally that overall changed the sound of music and changed its production |
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Digital Art |
Fused photography, sculpture, and cinema through adopted visual effects |
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Video Games |
Saw a significant rise in popularity with concerns for health and psychological issues |
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Kiki Smith |
American artist who created human sculptures for anatomical processes |
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Multiculturalism |
Coexistence of several cultures that exert their own influence over each other |
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Jhumpa Lahiri |
Received international attention from writings that explored contemporary Indian life |
