Can you guess who they are???

 Thomas Hobbes – human nature is characterized by dangerous self interest – freedom needs to be given up for security

 Baron Montesquieu – concept of the Separation of Powers in Government

 John Locke – ideas used in the American Constitution – gov’t to serve the people  People are rational, intelligent and reasonable

 Jean Jacques Rousseau – all humans are naturally free and are equal in principle – citizens should make laws directly (direct democracy)

 Edmund Burke – the concept of equality is absurd – favoured a hierarchical society

 Adam Smith – wrote the “Wealth of Nations” – created the concept of the market economy (capitalism) – “man is competitive by nature”

 J.S. Mill– wrote “On Liberty“ – people need to be free to do as they wish as long as they don’t intrude on the rights of others – gov’t needs a minimal role in peoples’ lives

 Robert Owen – creator of “New Lanark” and “New Harmony”

 Karl Marx – wrote the“Communist Manifesto” and “Das Kapital” - revolution as the only way for the proletariat to rise above the bourgeousie

 Friedrich Engels – friend and supporter of Marx

 Nellie McClung – championed the right for women to vote – Her efforts helped women get the right to vote in Canada in 1918.

 Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt – President – developed policies to limit the power of the Robber Barons – “Trustbuster!”

 Vladimir Lenin – Russian communist leader/father of Soviet Communism

Winston Churchill - Prime Minister – later originated the term Iron Curtain to describe those nations controlled by the USSR during the Cold War

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) – creator of the New Deal during the Great Depression First world leader to use Keynesian Economics

 John Maynard Keynes – monetary and fiscal policies – originator of the concept of the mixed economy

Harry S. Truman – authorized the use of the first atomic bombs on Japan -began the Truman Doctrine – the policy of containment of communism during the Cold War

Joseph Stalin – “5 year plans” – set the path for the Soviet Union to follow as an Authoritarian Communist Dictatorship

Adolf Hitler – wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle) Fascist Dictator of Germany (Nazi Party) – started World War 2

Benito Mussolini – Fascist Dictator of Italy during 1920’s- 30’s (Interwar Years) and during WW2

 Mohandas Gandi – political leader of India who encouraged passive resistance as a means of civil disobedience against Britain. India would gain independence under his leadership.

 Senator Joseph McCarthy – made claims that communists had infiltrated segments of American society and the army – gave rise to a paranoia about communism in the 1950’s known as “McCarthyism”

 Nikita Khrushev – created concept of Peaceful Co-existence and helped create the Missile Crisis

John F Kennedy – President (Democrat) – co- creator of the Cuban Missile Crisis

 Martin Luther King – inspiring civil rights leader who stood for tolerance and equality of all Americans.

 Fidel Castro – Communist leader of Cuba

 Tommy Douglas – former Premier of Saskatchewan, founding member of the NDP Party – Democratic Socialist – “the Father of Medicare in Canada.”

 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau – architect of our multi-cultural society, the White Paper, our Charter of R and F, patriating our Constitution and bring in the WMA during the Oct Crisis of 1970.

 Ronald Reagan – neoconservative president – classical liberal economics (Monetarism – trickle down theory) and an anti communist

 Brian Mulroney – Progressive Conservative Prime Minister – negotiated the original Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United State, brought in the GST – supporter of Reagan

 Milton Freidman – supporter of Monetarism – financial advisor to Ronald Reagan

 Friedrich Hayek – early supporter of Monetarism – a revival of Adam Smith style market economics/Classical Liberal economics

 Margaret Thatcher – neoconservative Prime Minister – supporter of Monetarism – supporter of Reagan

 Ralph Klein – neoconservative Premier of Alberta (Progressive Conservative)– “The Klein Revolution” – massive privatization and monetarist policies

 Tony Blair – Conservative Prime Minister – creator of the “3 rd Way” of economics – supporter of George W Bush

 George W Bush – neoconservative President (Republican)

 Barack Obama – current US President (Democrat)

 Stephen Harper – Conservative Prime Minister