Midterm Exam Outline

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Nietzche-German Philosopher

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Superman theory-foundation for Nazi party

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Charles Darwin

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Theory of Evolution

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Karl Marx-German Philosopher

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Father of Communism
Text Books: Communist Manifesto (Marx/Ingles),Das Kapital

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Sigmund Freud-German Psychologist

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Father of Psychoanalysis Practice
ID,Ego,Superego

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William Roentgen

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Father of X-Ray technology

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Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch

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Proved bacteria to be cause of diseases and controlled by inoculations

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Wright Brothers

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Discovered air flight 1903;
North Carolina;Kitty Hawk

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Alfred Nobel

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Invented dynamite but also instituted a prize for peace
Nobel Peace Prize

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Marie and Pierre Curie

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Discovered radium and plutonium-foundation for atomic research

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Albert Einstein

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Father of atomic energy
E=MC2 Energy times speed of light squared

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Joseph Lister

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Improved hygienic conditions in hospitals
Listerine

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Andrew Carnegie

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Steel Tycoon and financed public buildings

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Thomas Edison

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Discovered the electric light

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Socialism

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A political system with a mixed economy-capitalism and extensive centralized social services

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Nationalism

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Loyalty to a nation and its common ideas

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Secularism

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Separation between Church and State
Religion is a private matter receiving neither prejudice nor preference in society

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Syndicalism

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Pro Union: of society of unionized labor has the ability to paralyze society thereby becoming the leading governing structure within society itself

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Basic Capitalism

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The Profit Motive defining human behavior and the right to own property

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Modern Capitalism

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Profit Motive, Private Property, Upware Mobility and government regulated to produce revenue for public projects and protect the employee, consumer and environment

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Pure Capitalism

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Profit Motive, private property, no government regulation

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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

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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

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Strategic Imperalism

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A policy of controlling key waterways,ports, and military posts Panama Canal, Suez,Gibraltar

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Cultural Imperialism

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Importing one civilization over an existing cilivation in terms of buildings, food, music, political system, schools, language, clothing, art and upward mobility

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Laissez-faire

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A "hands off" economic policy-meaning less or minimal government regulation of business transactions

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Duma

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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

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Alsace-Lorraine

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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

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Otto von Bismark

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Unified former German states as one nation

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Kaiser Wilham II

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A leader of the Germany people at the outbreak of World War I

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Nicholas II

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A leader of the Russian people at the outbreak of World War I

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The Dreyfus Case

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Army officer in France wrongly accused of selling secrets; revealed early anti-semitic sentiments in Europe

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Great Britain(also known as the United Kingdom, Britain or England)

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Liberal, Two-Party Democratic Government, Largest Empire

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Russia

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Authoritarian Monarchy and Expanding Empire

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Germany

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Growing Political, Military, and Industrial Power, Scattered Empire

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France

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Multi-Party Democratic System, Second Largest Empire

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Paul Kruger

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Afrikaner leader during the Boer Wars

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Lord Kitchner

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Established the re-conquest of the Sudan and British General

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Lord Lugard

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B. Governor-general of Nigeria and author of "indirect rule" -British

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King Leopold

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King of Belgium-established a private commercial venture-state in Africa

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The Colons

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French settlers in Northwest Africa opposed to granting French citizenship to natives

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Cecil Rhodes

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An English adventurer, business man, gold farmer, founding of Rhodesia(Africa), later South and North Rhodesia and creator of the Rhodes Scholarship(Oxford)

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Zulus

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A famous war-like empire tribe in South Africa

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Boer Wars

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A war between the British and Afrikaner's

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Sudan War

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A war between the British and local tribe who resented Egyptian control