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Can you guess who they are???.  Thomas Hobbes – human nature is characterized by dangerous self interest – freedom needs to be given up for security.

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1 Can you guess who they are???

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

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

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

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

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

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

8  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

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

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

11  Friedrich Engels – friend and supporter of Marx

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

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

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

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

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

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

18 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

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

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

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

22  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.

23  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”

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

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

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

27  Fidel Castro – Communist leader of Cuba

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

29  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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

37  George W Bush – neoconservative President (Republican)

38  Barack Obama – current US President (Democrat)

39  Stephen Harper – Conservative Prime Minister


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