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Can you guess who they are???
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Thomas Hobbes – human nature is characterized by dangerous self interest – freedom needs to be given up for security
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Baron Montesquieu – concept of the Separation of Powers in Government
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John Locke – ideas used in the American Constitution – gov’t to serve the people People are rational, intelligent and reasonable
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Jean Jacques Rousseau – all humans are naturally free and are equal in principle – citizens should make laws directly (direct democracy)
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Edmund Burke – the concept of equality is absurd – favoured a hierarchical society
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Adam Smith – wrote the “Wealth of Nations” – created the concept of the market economy (capitalism) – “man is competitive by nature”
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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
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Robert Owen – creator of “New Lanark” and “New Harmony”
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Karl Marx – wrote the“Communist Manifesto” and “Das Kapital” - revolution as the only way for the proletariat to rise above the bourgeousie
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Friedrich Engels – friend and supporter of Marx
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Nellie McClung – championed the right for women to vote – Her efforts helped women get the right to vote in Canada in 1918.
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Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt – President – developed policies to limit the power of the Robber Barons – “Trustbuster!”
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Vladimir Lenin – Russian communist leader/father of Soviet Communism
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Winston Churchill - Prime Minister – later originated the term Iron Curtain to describe those nations controlled by the USSR during the Cold War
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) – creator of the New Deal during the Great Depression First world leader to use Keynesian Economics
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John Maynard Keynes – monetary and fiscal policies – originator of the concept of the mixed economy
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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
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Joseph Stalin – “5 year plans” – set the path for the Soviet Union to follow as an Authoritarian Communist Dictatorship
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Adolf Hitler – wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle) Fascist Dictator of Germany (Nazi Party) – started World War 2
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Benito Mussolini – Fascist Dictator of Italy during 1920’s- 30’s (Interwar Years) and during WW2
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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.
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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”
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Nikita Khrushev – created concept of Peaceful Co-existence and helped create the Missile Crisis
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John F Kennedy – President (Democrat) – co- creator of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Martin Luther King – inspiring civil rights leader who stood for tolerance and equality of all Americans.
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Fidel Castro – Communist leader of Cuba
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Tommy Douglas – former Premier of Saskatchewan, founding member of the NDP Party – Democratic Socialist – “the Father of Medicare in Canada.”
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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.
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Ronald Reagan – neoconservative president – classical liberal economics (Monetarism – trickle down theory) and an anti communist
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Brian Mulroney – Progressive Conservative Prime Minister – negotiated the original Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United State, brought in the GST – supporter of Reagan
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Milton Freidman – supporter of Monetarism – financial advisor to Ronald Reagan
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Friedrich Hayek – early supporter of Monetarism – a revival of Adam Smith style market economics/Classical Liberal economics
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Margaret Thatcher – neoconservative Prime Minister – supporter of Monetarism – supporter of Reagan
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Ralph Klein – neoconservative Premier of Alberta (Progressive Conservative)– “The Klein Revolution” – massive privatization and monetarist policies
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Tony Blair – Conservative Prime Minister – creator of the “3 rd Way” of economics – supporter of George W Bush
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George W Bush – neoconservative President (Republican)
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Barack Obama – current US President (Democrat)
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Stephen Harper – Conservative Prime Minister
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