19th and 20th century isms
"Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!"
What is Marxism?
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
What is anti-lynching?
Triple Alliance, Triple Entente
What is the alliance system?
"Separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
"Now go home and have a nice sleep."
Who is that dolt, Neville Chamberlain?
"A splendid African cake" and "White Man's Burden"
What is imperialism?
What is food safety?
Scramble for Africa
What is imperialism?
Equal protection of the law
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Who is FDR?
"Survival of the fittest"
What is Social Darwinism?
Jane Addams
What are settlement houses?
Unterseebooten, land ships, Dreadnoughts
What is militarism?
"An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits."
What is the Social Security Act?
"The day of conquest and aggrandizement is gone by; so is also the day of secret covenants entered into in the interest of particular governments and likely at some unlooked-for moment to upset the peace of the world."
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The market will regulate itself.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
W.E.B. DuBois
What is racial equality?
Pan-slavism
What is nationalism?
Executive Order 9066
What is Japanese internment?
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
Who is Winston Churchill?
"War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have courage to meet it. All other trials are substitutes, which never really put men into the position where they have to make the great decision -- the alternative of life or death...."
What is fascism?
Carrie Nation
What is temperance?
Gavril Princip
What is assassination?
A citizen is a person who is “of German or related blood.”
What are the Nuremberg Laws?
"I am asking neither that Germany be allowed to oppress three and a half million Frenchmen, nor am I asking that three and a half million Englishmen be placed at our mercy. Rather I am simply demanding that the oppression of three and a half million Germans in Czechoslovakia cease and that the inalienable right to self-determination take its place."