Classical Liberalism
These two principles are core to classical liberalism and focus on the individual.
What are individual rights and economic freedom?
This factory owner built utopian communities like New Harmony.
Who is Robert Owen?
This ideology is known for extreme nationalism and "state-assisted capitalism."
What is fascism?
This term describes the political and ideological tension between the U.S. and USSR after WWII, without direct warfare.
What is the Cold War?
This Cold War-era wall fell in 1989, symbolizing the end of communism in Eastern Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This economist believed that individuals working in their own self-interest would benefit society as a whole.
Who is Adam Smith?
This form of socialism supports elections, rights, and peaceful change.
What is democratic socialism?
This ideology rejects private property in favor of collective ownership of land, factories, and resources.
What is communism?
These American policies aimed to stop the spread of communism with aid.
What are the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan?
This is what happens when a powerful country tries to spread its liberal values — like democracy or capitalism — to another society, sometimes without consent.
What is the imposition of liberalism?
This thinker believed the government should only limit freedom to prevent harm to others.
Who is John Stuart Mill?
This crisis caused mass unemployment and disillusionment with capitalism.
What is the Great Depression?
This Soviet leader turned the USSR into a totalitarian state using censorship, propaganda, and secret police.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This strategy relied on the threat of massive retaliation to discourage nuclear war between superpowers.
What is deterrence (or mutually assured destruction)?
This term describes political or religious beliefs that reject compromise and may involve violence or threats to achieve goals.
What is extremism?
This economic philosophy calls for minimal government interference.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
This thinker believed class struggle would eventually lead to a classless, stateless society.
Who is Karl Marx?
He led the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and founded the Soviet Union.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This 1962 event brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, and demonstrated a high stakes "game of chicken" (brinkmanship).
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This modern movement challenges liberalism’s emphasis on economic growth by promoting sustainability, regulation, and limits on resource use.
What is environmentalism?
This 18th–19th century event helped spread capitalism, but also increased inequality and class division.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This system uses taxes to provide healthcare, education, and income support to citizens.
What is the welfare state?
This totalitarian ideology rejected liberalism by promoting racism and militarism.
What is Nazism (or fascism under Hitler)?
This term describes the easing of tensions and arms treaties in the 1970s.
What is détente?
This NHL "dynasty" from the 2010s will add another Stanley cup to their trophy case this spring.
Who are the Los Angeles Kings?