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Name that Ideology
VIP
100
"To each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs"
Who is Karl Marx?
100
9/11
What is 2001?
100
An economic policy where all land is taken away from private owners and combined to be farmed by the people.
What is collectivization?
100
Right wing ideology that is heavily nationalistic and race based.
What is fascism?
100
Believed in the separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
200
Set up a model factory in New Lanark, Scotland.
Who is Robert Owen?
200
Enabling Act
What is 1933?
200
A period of reduced tensions.
What is detente?
200
This ideology believes in an elite group of citizens in power with equality for all others.
What is communism?
200
People were selfish and life was brutish. Therefore, people should give up their freedoms for safety.
Who is Hobbes?
300
Is credited with starting universal health care in Canada.
Who is Tommy Douglas?
300
Korean War ended
What is 1953?
300
One of two legal definitions of citizenship - a person's citizenship is based on the parents' nationality, regardless of place of birth.
What is jus sanguinis?
300
A commitment to peace and opposition to war
What is pacifism?
300
Believed people were reasonable and able to make rational decisions. Government action had to be justified by popular consent.
Who is Locke?
400
Implemented perestroika and glasnost in the Soviet Union.
Who is Gorbachev?
400
Hyperinflation
What is 1924?
400
Favor a return to classical liberal beliefs.
What is neo-conservatism?
400
An ideology that says government should represent the legacy of the past as well as the well-being of the present. Society should be structured in a hierarchal fashion chosen by a limited electorate.
What is classical conservatism?
400
Believed that little government intervention in the economy was necessary. Author of Wealth of Nations.
Who is Adam Smith?
500
Leader of China from 1949 to 1976
Who is Mao Zedong?
500
Emergencies Act replaced the War Measures Act
What is 1988?
500
A form of government in which a small group of politicians are elected by a larger group of citizens
What is a representative democracy?
500
Humanitarians who advocated an end to the appalling conditions of the average worker in the capitalist countries of the 19th century.
What is utopian socialism?
500
Believed in direct democracy as it would reflect the general will better than a representative democracy.
Who is Rousseau?