YEARLY+THEMES

Throughout the year, the following terms will come up in discussions and on assessments. By the end of the year, you will have numerous historic examples to support the following themes. Your first quiz is the memorization of the following themes. Future tests will require application of the themes listed here.

1) Class Consciousness-Realization by the masses about their common experience of being exploited by the upper class.

2) Communism-State controls resources and eliminates stratification to achieve equality.

3) Political Left: Group seeking to change current way of life.

4) Political Right: Group in support of current government and/or way of life.

5) Left vs. Right: Two sides competing for power during political situations. The right wants thing to remain the same. The left wants change to current situation. Men in America against giving women the right to vote were on the right because they feared granting women more freedom would lead to a social decline.

6) Power Vacuum: Government situation that leaves the door open for political change. The vacuum occurs when government is vulnerable/weak and possibly ready for change initiated by the people.

7) Nationalism: Nation is all that matters. Nationalist view the survival of their nation as the only important factor. Nationalists are loyal to their country and want to promote culture, interests and consciousness.

8) Act-React- Series of actions and reactions contributing the negative history between groups and nations.

9) Negative History-Shared experience between groups and/or nations that creates hatred between groups and/or nations.

10) Following Orders-Concerned with getting the job down regardless of cost to humanity or one’s self.

11) Crime Against Humanity-An act of [|persecution] or any large scale atrocities against a body of people. Nature of atrocity is key.

12) L+S vs. F-Local state and federal government.

13) Imperialism-Foreign policy used by a strong nation to dominate another. Method of control can be political, economic, military or cultural.

14) Slap Thesis-How many times do I have to slap you until you slap back? Resorting to the extremes.

15) Or Does it Explode?-Result of slap thesis. You slapping back.

16) Treaty of Versailles-Treaty created after World War I that lead to World War II and indirectly created problems that fueled the Cold War and led to the War on Terror.

17) Golden Age: My experience with research has led me to think that every conservative group holds onto a golden age. The golden age is a time that people place on a pedestal and want to return to. The problem is the golden age believers usually reject change and want to return to that way of life.