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the freedom and desire to be free from something or freedom to do something

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liberalism

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the desire to be free from absolute standards and morals, especially those of the Scriptures

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Modern liberalism

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the principle or practice of conserving (preserving) established traditions or institutions and opposing changes in them

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conservatism

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father of modern conservatism

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Edmund Burke

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the most powerful conservative force through the ages

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the Bible

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false philosophies/sciences

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pseudosciences

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teaches that nothing can be known except observable scientific “facts”

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positivism

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Austrian psychologist known for psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud

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system that says the subconscious physical drives or irrational fears determine a man’s actions

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psychoanalysis

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philosophy that any idea or action should be judged solely by its results, regardless of any moral or Scriptural considerations

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pragmatism

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“anti-philosophy” that claims there is no truth or reality, forcing man to make his own meaning in an absurd world

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existentialism

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advocated for “progressive education” allowing students to “follow their animal instincts” and practice “self-expression”

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John Dewey

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one of the chief goals of modernists, an outward union of all churches into one organization regardless of doctrinal differences

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the Ecumenical Movement

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people who helped others stand firmly on the fundamentals of biblical truth

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“Fundamentalists”

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“Prince of Expositors”

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G. Campbell Morgan

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one of the world’s most famous revival preachers

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Rodney (“Gipsy”) Smith

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an attempt to capture momentary, fleeting “impressions” received by the physical senses

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impressionism

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emphasized random geometric forms and perspectives, create new “realities” for viewers

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cubism

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art for art’s sake, an expression of subjective thoughts and feelings in shapes and colors

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“abstract art”

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best-known conservative writer of the day; literary apologist and fiction writer

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C.S. Lewis

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agreement where 62 nations renounced war as a means of settling international disputes

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Paris Peace Pact

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a central banking system that controls nation’s money supply under the auspices of the federal government

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Federal Reserve System

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investments or shares in some industrial or commercial company

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stocks

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risky investments for a chance of a quick profit

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speculation

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socialist who organized “The Blackshirts” aka Fascist Party
Benito Mussolini
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a form of socialism that exercises totalitarian control and promises a new "Roman Empire"
fascism
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socialist who created the “National Socialist German Workers’ Party” or “Nazis”
Adolf Hitler
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a form of socialism that relies on terrorist aggression, fanatical racism, and anti-democratic nationalism
Nazism
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Hitler's autobiography and exposition of Nazi ideology
Mein Kampf
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title for Hitler that he gave himself
Der Fuhrer
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what was Hitler's most nefarious scheme?
his annihilation of the Jewish people and other inferiors
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Japanese leader who led the militarists in the thirties, using military to fix economic and social problems
General Hideki Tojo
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the official Japanese head of government who had no real power
Emperor Hirohito
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Russian leader
Joseph Stalin
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the policy of giving in to the demands of aggressors or taking no action
appeasement
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the invasion of ____ was the start of World War II
Poland
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German term that means "lightning war", a fast heavy assault by motorized forces (tanks) and air power
blitzkrieg
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"sitting down war"
sitzkrieg
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a Norwegian traitor who was installed as the head of the Nazi puppet government
Vidkun Quisling
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Hitler's plan for invading Great Britain
Operation Sea-Lion
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the German air force
Luftwaffe
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prime minister of England during WWII
Winston Churchill
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what was Hitler's strategy with Operation Sea-Lion in England?
he wanted the people to lose morale
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attack on London where 13,000 civilians were killed and 20,000 more injured
"London Blitz"
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German warships designed to fit the size limitations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles
"pocket battleships"
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who led the Afrika Korps
Erwin Rommel ("Desert Fox")
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what year was the turning point of WWII
1941
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Russian allies that kept Germany from successfully invading Russia
the mud and winter
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Congress’s legislation which allowed the president to forbid trade with belligerents on American ships and limit trade with warring countries to good paid for in cash and carried from American ports in foreign vessels
Neutrality Act of 1937
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March 1941, Congress granted the president the right to sell, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of war materials to any nations whose defense he held to be vital to American security
Lend-Lease Act
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Japan sunk this American gunboat in 1937, which played in to the tension between Japan and the U.S.
Panay
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home base for America's Pacific fleet
Pearl Harbor
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what day was Pearl Harbor bombed
December 7, 1941 (U.S. declared war on Japan December 11, 1941)
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leader of the British Eighth Army
General Bernard Montgomery
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mission where the Allies invaded Vichy French Northwest Africa and secured North Africa and looked to Italy
Operation Torch
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who led the American forces in Operation Torch
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Japanese-American second generation people
Nisei
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a unit of Nisei, the most decorated infantry unit in all of the U.S. army
the 442nd Regimental Combat Team
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thousands of Allied troops hit the beaches of Normandy, France in the largest amphibious assault in history
June 6, 1944 (D-Day)
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the Nazis' last great offensive in the west
the Battle of the Bulge
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V-E Day
May 8, 1945
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American general in the Philippines who was in charge there before being commanded to leave
General Douglas MacArthur
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prisoners of war forced to walk 70 miles to Japanese concentration camps was known as the _______
Bataan Death March
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pilot who led sixteen American B-25 bombers over Japanese cities, scaring the Japanese and pushing them to expand to far
Colonel "Jimmy" Doolittle
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first naval battle in history in which the opposing vessels did not sight one another
Battle of the Coral Sea
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the U.S. turned the tide of the war in the Pacific by sinking all four Japanese heavy carriers in ______
the Battle of Midway
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the strategy to only invade important islands to establish air and naval bases
"island hopping"
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the keystone of the Japanese defense
Saipan
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battle where Japan lost almost all of their remaining ships and planes
Battle of Leyte Gulf
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suicide planes loaded with explosives
Kamikazes
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president after Roosevelt's death
Harry S. Truman
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the largest research and scientific effort of its day; created the atomic bomb
the Manhattan Project

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