Some More 'Isms'
The ends justify the means; only results matter.
Pragmatism
British inventor who perfected the blast furnace that enabled iron to be made into steel.
Bessemer
Largest amphibious landing in human history.
D-Day
Face of 'Progressive' education.
John Dewey
This battle ended the final "Hundred Days" reign of Napoleon.
Referred to as the anti-philosophy.
Existentialism
His tireless efforts led to Britain ending slavery domestically and throughout its Empire.
Wilburforce
Many historians consider this battle to be the turning point in the Pacific Theater of WW2.
Battle of Midway
Gave us the theory of relativity.
Albert Einstein
The two groups fighting in the English Civil War.
Roundheads & Cavaliers
Belief that man is little more than animal or machine who can be trained to be socially upright.
Behaviorism
His philosophy replaced God the Creator with time, natural processes, and chance.
Charles Darwin
This event saw over 300,000 British and French soldiers 'miraculously' rescued from German forces.
Dunkirk
Foremost Christian apologist of the mid 20th century who gave the world The Chronicles of Narnia series.
C.S. Lewis
Inventor of the seed drill.
Jethro Tull
This 'ism' is at the foundation of Communist ideology.
Secular humanism
This chancellor of Prussia took the lead in German unificationi.
Otto von Bismarck
The two allies that helped the Soviet Union turn back the German advance.
Mud & Winter
Baseball player turned evangelist who preached to over 100 million people during his ministry.
Billy Sunday
This American author urged his readers to 'suck out all the marrow' of life.
Henry David Thoreau
Disguised as scholarly work, this seeks to discredit the authority, authenticity, and authorship of the Bible.
Higher criticism
In addition to J.B. Watson and B.F. Skinner, he was one of the foremost behaviorists of the late 19th century.
Pavlov
The Nationalist leader of China and the Communist leader of China (must be in order).
Chiang Kai-shek / Mao Zedong
Politician, writer, and leader who saw the evils of Bolshevism and Nazism before many of his contemporaries.
Winston Churchill
The foremost legal scholar of English law in the 18th century.
William Blackstone