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Fellinger semester 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| comprised of a collection of beliefs and values that represent what we as a nation stand for | Americas credo |
| The theory that the US occupies a special niche among the nations of the world in terms of its national credo, historical evolution, political and religious institutions, and its being built by immigrants. | american exceptionalism |
| the feeling that your country and country's way of life is superior to others | nationalism |
| love and devotion to ones country | patriotism |
| "facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of you passions, they connot alter the state of facts and evidence" | John Adams |
| act that allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the US governement | Freedom of Information Act |
| "the american way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country" | Michael Parenti |
| "patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it" | Mark Twain |
| "patriotism means to stand by the country. it odes not mean to stand by the president or any other public official" | Teddy Roosevelt |
| "our country! in her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong" | Stephen Decatur |
| written account of what happened in the past as well as the study of human actions | history |
| an original source of information that was created at the time an event took place | primary source |
| questions you ask to analyze a primary source (7) | author? intended audience? perspecive of source? why was it created? what is historical content? how is it good/flawed? what info can i get from it? |
| books and articles written by historians or journalists who have taken primary sources and interpreted them for you | secondary sources |
| an argument advancing a point of view as a result of research | thesis |
| "textbooks dominate history courses, yet htey are systemically flawed because of ommisions, distotions, misinformation, and outright falsehoods" | James Loewen thesis |
| an agressive attack on or refutation of th eopinions or principles of another | polemic |
| "in its essence, the Indochina war (vietnam war) was a war waged by the US and such local forces as it could organize against the rural population of South Vietnam | Noam Chomsky's polemic |
| "mans mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions" | Oliver Wendall Holmes |
| the study of how knowledge of the past is obtained and transmitted | historiography |
| the critical re-examination of historical facts, with an eye towards rewriting histories with either newly discovered information or a reinterpretation of existing information | historical revisonism |
| "interpretations of th past are subject to change in response to new evidence, new quesions asked of the evidence, new perspectives gained by the passage of time" | James M McPherson |
| "to remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child" | Cicero |
| "what good fortunate for leaders and governments that people do not think" | Adolph Hitler |
| "get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please" | Mark Twain |
| "schools should be in the business of producing responsible citizens, by helping students make their own determinations" | Robert Hutchins |
| war the beagn in august 1914, ended on november 11, 1918 | Great war (world war 1) |
| the development of large-scale industries | industrialism |
| extending a nations authority over other nations | imperialism |
| extreme patriotism and nationalism in the form of an aggressive foreign policy | jingoism |
| maintaining a large military as a tool of foreign policy | militarism |
| the phases of WWI (4) | illusion stalemate great slaughter revolution |
| causes for US entry in WWI (4) | sinking of lusitania zimmerman telegram resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare american loans to the allies |
| "it was the fight for the minds of men, for the conquest of their convictions...a vast enterprise in salesmanship, the worlds greatest adventure in advertising" | George Creel |
| who wrote 'how we advertised america' | George Creel |
| "the essence of a democratic society is the manufacturing of consent by which propaganda is necessary to promote and garner support for policy" | Walter Lippman |
| "control of public opinion is a means to controlling public behavior" | Walter Lippman |
| the premeditated selection of what we see and hear designed to influence or shape ones opinion and attitude | propagande |
| techniques of propaganda (5) | appeal to fear argumentum ad nauseam (repetition) bandwagon stereotyping scapegoating (assigning blame) |
| the struggle control or influence the policies of government | politics |
| course of action designed to achieve a particular outcome or goal | policy |
| the two types of policy making | domestic and foreign |
| a political organization that seeks to control or influence government policies, by getting their members elected into office | politcal party |
| organized collection of ideas, opinion,and/or beliefs concerning life, culture, society, government, economics,politics and the past | ideology |
| "if you can control or influence our education system, you can start taking over the minds of our young people" | Randy Rives |
| the continuous debate reflecting the division over religious, educational, political, and moral issues within a pluralistic society | culture wars |
| society in where diverse ethnic, racial, religious, or social groups maintian and develop their traditional culture or special interest within the confines of a common civilization | pluralistic society |
| social or political issue, often of a divisive or controverisal nature, that splits apart the support base of a political group | wedge issue |
| "propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship" | William Blum |
| "the [Bush] administration relied on an aggresive political propaganda campaign instead of truth to sell the Iraq war" | Scott McClellan |
| "we dont want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud" | Condoleeza Rice |
| "he who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors" | Thomas Jefferson |
| the creation and distribution of knowledge in society | ideological management |
| "we are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of" | Edward Bernays |
| "in the general population, people forget or don't care that much and gradually, what you hear drilled into your head everyday comes to be believed" | Noam Chomsky |
| "the purpose of the media is to inculcate and defend the economic, social, and political agendas o fprivileged groups that dominate society and government" | Noam Chomsky |
| types of media bias(5) | story selection selection of sources omission placement limiting debate |
| "the mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation" | Walter Lippman |
| repress animalistic instincts within human beings | role of civilization |
| techniques of mass consumer persuasion that Bernays introduced (4) | associate them with celebrities product placement in movies cars=male sexuality paid celebrities to endorse products |
| "manufacture of consent is the various ways either marginalizing the general public or reducing them to apathy in some fashion" | Noam Chomsky |
| "and i encourage you to all go shopping more" | George W Bush |
| "the primary responsibilty of government is to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority" | James Madison |
| "with the greater part of rich people, the chief employment of riches consists in the parade of riches which in their eyes is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves" | Adam Smith |
| "divisions of labor will destroy human beings and turn people inot creatures as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human being. the end result is that human beings become tools that can be manipulated, degraded, and kicked around" | Adam Smith |
| the theory that persons, groups, and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in nature | social darwinism |
| an ideal society | utopia |
| "it was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased" | Adam Smith |
| to maximize wealth and opportunity as well as to minimize human suffering | the goal of socialism |
| four stages of economic life | primitive, slave, feudal and capitalist |
| a social structure in which theoretically "social classes" are abolished and property is commonly controlled as well as a political | communism |
| propertied class | bourgeoisie |
| free society where decisions on waht to produce and what policies to pursue are made democratically | oppression |
| the state controls all sectors of the economy | Marxism-Leninism |
| mixture of socialism and capitalism | mixed economy |
| main economic model used in Germany | social market |
| China's capitalist economy | authoritarian government |
| the study of how people make choices while attempting to satisfy their unlimited wants with limited resources | economics |
| the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline | peak oil |
| there is not enough available resources to satisfy everyones wants and need | scarcity |
| the system of human activities in a country related to the production, distribution, exchange and use of goods and services | economy |
| the way in which a nation allocates its resources to satisfy the needs and wants of its people | economic system |
| significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months (less than 10%) | recession |
| recession when GDP declines more than 10% | depression |
| when did great depression last through? | lasted through the 1930s |
| replacement of agriculture with manufacturing as the main source of economic growth | industrialism |
| economic system inn which mostly individuals own and operate the factors of production within the limits of the law | capitalism |
| what does capitalism stress? | competition and profit |
| who wrote 'the wealth of nations' | Adam Smith |
| expression meaning 'let the people do as they wish' | laissez-faire |
| a label applied to the recent reemergence of liberal economic policies involving free trade, free markets, privatization, and deregulation | neo-liberalism |
| "the principle architects of state policy, the merchants and manufacturers, mak sure that their own interests are most particularly attended to, however grievous the consequences for others.." | Adam Smith |
| occurs when a market orindustry is dominated by a small number of sellers | oligopoly |
| form of government where political power effectively rests with a small elite group of society | oligarchy |
| rule by the wealthy or power provided by wealth | plutocracy |
| an economy that is significantly influenced by the very wealthy | plutonomy |
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