Cultural Literacy For Test Two Flashcards

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Knee-jerk reaction

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Immediate reaction without thought

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Judas Iscariot

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According to the Christians disciple who betrayed Jesus to the Romans reference of the true betrayal

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Vladimir Lenin

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Key leader who helped with the Soviet union dictators and executions

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Joseph Mcartney

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The senator of Wisconsin who wrote and accuse people in politics and celebrities being communists and his info was based on lies therefore he gave people bad reputations

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Nom de plume

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The name of the pen a fake name used to be a writer

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Passè

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The past old and out of fashion

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Quid pro quo

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One in exchange for another

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Reparation

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Paying for the damages mainly used in war

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Vice versa

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The other way around in the reverse order

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Tenderfoot

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New it something starting to learn usually referenced freshman

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Unilateral

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One-sided

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A wildcat strike

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Strike/protest with the with the authority of a union parentheses illegal in most states parentheses

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Xena phobia

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The fear of different cultures because they’re strange/foreign

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Yom Kippur

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Judaism holiday where you asked for forgiveness to their God and the fast and pray

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E pluribus unum Unum

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Latin. Out of many one having many states coming together for one nation. Referring to the United States when the colonies became one country :-)

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Savonarola, grolamo

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Monk of the Renaissance era, criticize the pope. Charged with heresy, was hanged and burned

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Robert Oppenheimer

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One of the main scientists who developed atomic weaponry later.did not want the spread of atomic war therefore he was a very known advocate for peace

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Humanism

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Man and his capabilities are the central concern. no religious affiliation

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Agnostic

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You cannot prove that God exists so therefore you do not believe

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Atheism

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Do not believe in God, no religion

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Uncle Tom’s cabin

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The book that upset this out because it describes the true horrors of slavery cause a main division between the north and south

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Hue and cry

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To say something is going on, public Claremore

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Carcinogen

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The cancer-causing agents that can be found in cigarettes food basically anything

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Panacea

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Remedy for all diseases, evils or difficulties; cure for all; universal

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We have met the enemy and they are ours
In the war of 1812, Oliver Perry commander. Battle on Lake Erie here he sends a message to land to say we've got the enemy and we're going to win
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Speak softly and carry a big stick
Teddy Roosevelt! Be peaceful but make sure you can back up what you say or have force
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Zen
Buddhism; attainment of the state of spiritual enlightenment called Satori.. I the mighty!
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Taj Mahal
Memorial, too much of A former Indian leaders wife which was his favorite headed to 20 years to build and eventually it became this huge wonder of the world. Shaw Johahn
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Rosetta Stone
The language teacher? A stone with three different languages, which was the key turning the Egyptian the hydrographic's included Egyptian language and Greek language
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Legal tender
Money by law that must be excepted for something example the US dollar
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Scotland Yard
The jail and Great Britain. Reference of jail now
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Mein Kampf
Hitler's Diery translated to my struggle between the Bible for the Nazis
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Vaudeville
Type of entertainment from the late 1800s to the 1930s before TVs. Performances included unrelated acts groups together
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I think therefore I am
Based on a philosopher Descartes I am able to think therefore I exist
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Francis Scott Key
Wrote the Star-Spangled Banner originally a Poem upon a British prison ship, in the war of 1812 was
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A double entendre
Something that has double meaning, for mature audiences usually inappropriate
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The model T
The first car made on the assembly line. This process and the car was revolutionary because it started the assembly line and any factory and it was affordable
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Catharsis
The release of pent up emotions like crying exercising drawing