case studies Flashcards
The Gilded Age/Industrial Revolution
Date: IR = 1760-1840 GA = 1870-1890
Who: Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations
Support: classical liberal
Against: gov’t intervention
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Date: March 1911
Who: women and immigrants
Support: captialism
Against: welfare capitalism
The Progressive Era
Date: 1897-1920
Who: Teddy Roosevelt
Support: Socialism
Against: Capitalism
Book Burnings
Date: May 1933
Who: Nazi, Germany
Support: Indoctrination
Against: Outside Knowledge
The Hitler Youth and League of German Girls
Date: 1926 (boys ) 1930 (girls)
Who: Young Kids
Support: Indoctrinating Youth
Against: Academic Freedoms
Cuban Missile Crisis
Date: October 1962
Who: US vs SU
Support: Expansionism and Containment
Against: Escalating to a World War
Marshall Plan
Date: April 1948
Who: USA
Support: European Countries and Expanding sPhere of influence
Against: Soviet Union attempt of expansionism
Red Scare and McCarthyism
Date: Late 1940s through 1950s
Who: Joseph McCarthy
Support: illberal acts
Against: Communism
9/11 Patriot Act
Date: After 9/11
Who: American Citizens
Support: Collective Security
Against: Personal Privacy
No Fly List
Date: After 9/11
Who: Suspected Terrorists
Support: Collective Security and Racial Profiling
Against:
The Indian Act
Date: 1976
Who: First Nations
Support: Assimilation
Against: Their Collective Identity
Official Languages Act
Date: 1969
Who: Anglophone and Francophone Speakers
Support: Embracing Canadian Culture
Against: Letting go of their language and collective identity
Molotov Plan
Date: 1947
Who: Soviet Union
Support: Hungary, Poland and other Eastern areas of europe
Against: US containment in response to their expansionism
