Political Lingo
Mobilizing all of a nation's resources both at home and in the field for war.
Total War
The class of hereditary nobility, sharing a distinctive lifestyle of wealth and influence in society.
Aristocrats
The application of the principles of evolution and survival of the fittest to the social order, leading to the belief that the fittest races and nations will progress as the weaker ones decline
Social Darwinism
An economic ideology that allows for private ownership of property, but calls for collective or government ownership of the major means of production and distribution of goods to promote cooperation rather than competition for the good of society.
Socialism
The transcendentalist who wrote Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
The declaration that Germany was responsible for WWI and demand for reparations.
The War Guilt Clause
The lower working class
Proletariats
The belief that something is only good if it is useful or for the benefit of the majority
Utilitarianism
A political and economic system with a strong centralized government that aims to create a classless society in which all property is communally owned and portioned according to individual need.
Communism
The father of psychoanalysis who promoted the idea that humans are motivated by sexual impulses which are repressed and require release
Sigmund Freud
A series of programs, public works projects, financial reforms, and regulations instituted by President Roosevelt during The Great Depression to provide economic relief.
The New Deal
The upper ruling class
Borgeoisie
The belief that there is no absolute set of morals, and therefore judgements are true or false only in relation to the standards of a particular individual or group.
Moral Relativism
A totalitarian form of government that exalts the nation above the individual, and calls for a centralized government with a dictatorial leader
Fascism
Karl Marx
A U.S. program designed to provide aid to western Europe following WWII to help promote industry and rebuild devastated European economies.
The Marshall Plan
Individuals who fought for the right to vote
Suffragettes
The belief that the individual person is a free and responsible agent determining their own development and granting their own meaning to life.
Existentialism
An extreme form of fascism that calls for purity of race
Nazism
Antebellum political leader who advocated for slavery as a positive moral good, benefitting both the slave and the master based upon their respective moral needs.
John C. Calhoun
A promise made by the USA to provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from authoritarian forces to prevent the spread of Communism.
The Truman Doctrine
Individuals whose power or influence is gained from their wealth
Plutocrats
The principle of giving the group priority over each individual in it.
Collectivism
A political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups
Populism
Known as the most progressive of the 3 presidents during the "Progressive Era"
Theodore Roosevelt