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The six principles of individualism.
What are PRICES?
P – private property
R – rule of law
I – individual rights and freedoms
C – competition
E – economic freedom
S – self-interest
100
The economic crisis of the 1930s.
What is the Great Depression?
100
Farming only what is needed to survive.
What is subsistence agriculture?
100
This organization stands for collective security. (Give the acronym and full name for points.)
What is NATO -- the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
100
Thanos wanted to kill one half of the world to save the other half, which demonstrates this type of ideology.
What is collectivism?
200
The six principles of collectivism.
What are PRINCE?
P – public property
R – (collective) responsibility
I – (collective) interest
N – (collective) norms
C – cooperation
E – economic equality
200
An ideology based on collectivist values (collective responsibility, economic equality, public norms, public property…).
What is socialism?
200
One person or small group possesses absolute power.
What is a dictatorship?
200
This was a foreign policy of the US to provide aid to Greece and Turkey, to support against communist forces. It later expanded to support other countries.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
A word for industrial workers. Marx said they had to rise up against factory owners.
Who are the proletariat?
300
This is the key difference between classical and modern liberalism.
What is government intervention to provide social safety nets?
300
The imposition of regulations, spending on social programs, setting tax and interest rates…)
What is government intervention?
300
They took control during the Russian Revolution of 1917; became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
300
If countries were doing economically well, they would be less likely to resort to communism -- the rationale behind this foreign policy.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
This is used in a war of words and images.
What is propaganda?
400
The ideology supporting a revolution by the oppressed workers vs. their property owning oppressors
What is communism?
400
The social class that evolved with the growth of trade.
What is the bourgeoisie?
400
An ideology based on complete rejection of liberal values, totalitarian power and racial superiority. Hint: Hitler.
What is Nazism?
400
Truman's policy to stop Soviet expansionism.
What is containment?
400
Which DC comic book character worked as a nuclear physicist after the atomic bomb was created, before a laboratory accident gave him the power to manipulate atoms?
Who is Dr. Manhattan? (Named after the Manhattan project, which is what the project to develop the atomic bomb was called.)
500
The fact that people struggled to eat during the Industrial Revolution, with no assistance beyond what the church could give them, and that the gap between the rich and the poor grew wider, are evidence of the failings of which ideology?
What is classical liberalism?
500
The ideology that supports peaceful transition from capitalism to socialism through democratic means.
What is democratic socialism?
500
An ideology whereby a communist state is created through violent revolution and governed by a Communist Party. Hint: Russia.
What is Leninism?
500
Churchill's descriptive term for the spread of communism across Europe.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Stalin's term for Churchill, meaning someone who starts wars.
What is "the iron curtain"?
What is "firebrand of war"?
500
This dictatorship rules the universe in Star Wars, until Luke Skywalker defeats the Emperor, refusing to fall to the Dark Side like his father, Darth Vader (though, spoiler alert, his father does turn back to the light at the end).
What is the Empire?
600
A form of government wherein the state protects the social and economic well-being of its citizens. For example, it includes social programs like free healthcare systems and employment insurance.
What is a welfare state?
600
An ideology based on cooperative communities, improved living/working conditions for industrial workers.
What is utopian socialism?
600
An ideology based on totalitarian rule and repression of political opponents. Hint: Russia.
What is Stalinism?
600
A term used to describe the effect of nuclear weapons on the world, if both superpowers chose to use them against one another. Hint: the acronym tells you it would be crazy to do.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: what is the name of this Cold War strategy?
What is mutually assured destruction (MAD)?
What is deterrence?
600
Dictatorship which promotes extreme military nationalism, rejects communism and socialism, individual interests subordinate to the good of the nation-state. Hint: Mussolini.
What is a fascist dictatorship?
700
The ideology that places needs of the group before those of any particular member.
What is collectivism?
700
An ideology where working class overthrows the capitalist class to form a classless society, evolved from Marx’s ideas
What is Marxism?
700
“Improvement” of the human species through selective breeding or genocide.
What is eugenics?
700
The space race and weapons developments were examples of this type of warfare, wherein the winner shows their ideology is best by achieving the most.
What is prestige wars?
700
This game of chicken, wherein tensions between nations increased to a tipping point, and their leaders would rather risk destruction than back down.
What is brinkmanship?