Isms flash cards

Nationalism

Love of country, used to unify nations from napoleon to hitler

Fascism

Totalitarian political system and a modified capitalist economic system…began with Mussolini in Italy in 1920’s

Anarchism

1900-1930’s the push for no government and no laws

Nazism

Germanys version of facial … combined with extreme nationalism

Protestantism

The dominant religious group in England, Germany, and the USA…begun in 16th C.

Chartism

A working class movement for political reform in Britain which existed from 1838 to 1858. It took its name from the people’s charter of 1838 and was a national protest movement. They put pressure on politicians to concede manhood suffrage. This relied on constitutional methods to secure its aims.

Dadaism

A cultural movement that began in Zurich during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature, theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works

Fabianism

The Fabian society is a British socialist organization whose purpose is to advance the principles of socialism via gradualist and reformist means. The society laid many of the foundations of the Labour Party and subsequently affected the policies of states emerging from the decolonization of India and Singapore.

Romanticism

A reaction to early 19th, lit, Phil, and religion, against the excessive rationality and scientific narrowness of the enlightenment, a reaction to neoclassicism. Humans can find a way to improve/save the world

Thomism

Saint Thomas Aquinas philosophers, theologian in philosophy, his disputed questions and commentaries on Aristotle are perhaps his most well known works.