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PROGRESSIVES
DARWINISM
SOCIALISM
WORLD WAR I
FOREST WHITAKER
100
Often described as "a spirit of reform" that swept through the United states in the early twentieth centuries.
What is Progressivism?
100
Darwinism is in direct contrast with which popular theory?
What is Creationism?
100
It was he who advocated for the creation of a society that allows for the widespread application of modern technology to rationalise economic activity by eliminating the anarchy of capitalist production.
What is Karl Marx?
100
This was the "War to End all Wars"
What is World War I?
100
Forest Whitaker and his daughter are both ________ .
What are vegetarians.
200
Progressive reformers were generally from _______-__________ backgrounds and were people born in small towns, but lived their adult lives in cities.
What is Anglo-Saxon?
200
The notion discussed regarding "survival of the fittest" is related to?
What is natural selection?
200
Most socialists share the view that ___________ unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital and derives its wealth through exploitation, creates an unequal society, does not provide equal opportunities for everyone to maximise their potential.
What is Capitalism?
200
The agreement negotiated during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that ended WORLD WAR I and imposed disarmament, reparations, and territorial changes on the defeated Germany.
What is The Treaty of Versailles
200
In this 2006 film, Whitaker portrays General ___________ in the film __________ .
Who is General Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland
300
They were a group of optimists that believed that although the US was a sound nation, it could be better if certain economic, political and social problems were solved. (Two words)
What is Progressive Reformers?
300
The first of the evolutionary biologists, he is originator of the concept of natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin.
300
In May of 1949, this prodigy published this work, "Why Socialism?"
Who is Albert Einstein
300
It is said that this President was responsibgle for American entry into WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300
Whitaker portrays and alien in this film (see picture)
What is Battlefield Earth.
400
The President during the Progressive Era who sought big-business and was more conservative in his ideology and political platform.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt ?
400
This is the process of formation or growth; development.
What is Evolution?
400
In the most influential of all socialist theories,_____and _____ believed the consciousness of those who earn a wage or salary (the "working class" in the broadest Marxist sense) would be molded by their "conditions" of "wage-slavery", leading to a tendency to seek their freedom or "emancipation" by throwing off the capitalist ownership of society
Who are Marx and Engels
400
This is the international confederation of countries, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, that existed from 1920 to 1946, its creation following WWI and its dissolution following WWII.
What is The League of Nations?
400
Whitaker starred in the R&B video featuring T-Pain and Jamie Foxx called _______________
What is "Blame it on the Alcohol".
500
This complex business-government partnership that to this day dominates the financial world was created out of Progressivism.
What is the Federal Reserve.
500
A 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated. (two words)
What is Social Darwinism
500
This theory emerges and essentially refers to the ideologies that believe the social evolution of human society should be directed through artificial selection or deliberate conflict between individuals, groups, nations and ideas.
What is Social Darwinism?
500
Who were the Allied leaders of "The Big Four" who met at the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919, after World War I? You may use countries rather than the names of the leaders.
What is President Woodrow Wilson of the United States, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Britain, Premier Georges Clemenceau of France, and Premier Vittorio Orlando of Italy.
500
In this 2009 flick, Whitaker opposite Keanu Reeves portrays a corrupt LAPD commander.
What is Street Kings.