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20th Century European History
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History
Undergraduate 4
12/10/2007

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Term

 

 

 

Goebbels

Definition

-Had all 6 of his children poisoned

 

-He and wife were shot inside Hitler's bunker

Term

 

 

 

Himmler

Definition

 

 

 

-Head of Nazi Concentration Camps

-Tried to escape in disguise

-Captured

-Killed himself with cyanide 

Term

 

 

 

Goering

 

Definition

 

- Decided to go home after war

-Arrested

-Celeb @ Nuremburg 

- Took poison in jail

Term

 

 

 

Ribbentrop 

Definition

- Convicted all of war crimes against Jews

 

- Mentioned Hitler while being hung

Term

 

 

 

Suttner

Definition

- Encouraged Nobel to est. his peace prize

 

- "Lay Down Your Arms" 

Term

 

 

 

Fawcett

Definition

 

- purse stolen

 

- gets back as husbands prop.

 

- organizes womens voting

Term

 

 

 

 

Pankhurst

Definition

 

 

- founded women's political/social movement

 

- threatened male property

Term

 

 

 

 

Beauvoir 

Definition

 

 

- "The Second Sex"

 

- Women lived in conditions of necissity determined by reproduction and motherhood 

Term

 

 

 

 

 

Friedan 

Definition

 

 

 

- "The Feminist Mystique"

 

- Women living meaningless lives 

Term

 

 

 

 

 Wittgenstein 

Definition

 

 

- logical positivism

 

- words have different meaning to different people

 

- should be concerned w/ meaning of language 

Term

 

 

 

 

 

Husserl 

Definition

 

 

- the individ. person is cut off

 

- Phenomenology (we should be concerned w/ what's going on in someone's head) 

Term

 

 

Heideggar

 

NAZI 

Definition

 

- Phenomenological Existentialism

 

- What's it mean to be?

- Bound by your culture and time

- We should all want to be authentic 

Term

 

 

 

Gadamer 

Definition

 

 

- Hermeneutics

 

- Nature of human understanding, interpretation, tension, truth and method

 

- Real thinkers will have their PREJUDICES 

Term

 

 

 

Foucault 

Definition

 

 

- Discourses of pwr

 

- Attacks on enlightenment

 

- Control and manipulation 

Term

 

 

 

Derrida 

Definition

 

 

- Only thing that matters is interpretation

 

- Language can't convey stable meaning 

Term

 

 

 

Khrushchev 

Definition

 

- old bolshevik

 

- came into pwr in 1954 after Stalin

 

- announced de-stalinization

 

Start of USSR 

Term

 

 

 

 20th Pary Congress

 

FEB. 1956 

Definition

 

 

- Khrushchev runs through Stalin's crimes

 

- Official beginning of the Rot of Russia

 

- Led to collapse / communism bad

Term

 

 

 

Brezhnev 

Definition

 

 

- Power after Khrushchev

 

- Transformed govt. to oligarchy

 

- "Capitalism a society w/o a future" 

Term

 

 

 

Sakharov 

Definition

 

 

 

 

- Winner of 1975 Nobel Peace Prize 

Term

 

 

 

Solzhenitsyn 

Definition

 

 

- Gulag

 

- wrote "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" 

Term

 

 

 

Gorbachev 

Definition

 

 

- 1st Soviet since Lenin to have degree

 

- a yes man / good leader / morally corrupt

 

- knew west was racing ahead 

Term

 

 

 

Yeltsin 

Definition

 

 

 

- mayor of Moscow

 

- goes to Houston shopping mall

 

- goes against Gorbachev 

Term

 

 

 

Karadzic 

Definition

 

 

- attempted to set a Bosnia / Serbia country

 

- leads to civil war

 

- leads to gang rapes and maybe WWII 

Term

 

 

 

Milosevic 

Definition

 

 

- Serb

 

- socialist party sends him to Kosovo

 

- gives speech to fuel Serbian resistance

 

- comes to power (Slobo! Slobo!) 

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Mladic 

Definition

 

 

- responsible for mass killings

 

 

- still 'at large' 

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