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10th Grade
03/02/2010

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Paul Valery
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French poet, critic. Wrote the "Crisis of Mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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German philosopher. Rejected Christianity and said that "God is dead."
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Kellog-Briand Pact
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Signed by many countries to prevent war and preserver peace. (1928)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Austrian philosopher who said that the philosophical issues of the ages were senseless and a waste of time. Started Logical Empiricism.
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Logical Empiricism
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Rejected traditional philosophy, from the existence of God and the meaning of happiness, as nonsense and hot air.
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Georges Sorel
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French philosopher. Said the Marxian Socialism was an inspiring but unprovable religion rather than a scientific truth. Rejected Democracy.
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Henri Bergson
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French philosophy proffesor. Said that intuition and experience was just as important that science and reason to understand human behavior.
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Existentialism
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Basically saying that mankind is alone and there is no God to help them, in turn, mankind must find meaning and purpose.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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French existentialist. Said humans simply exists, "They turn up, appear on the scene."
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Albert Camus
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One of the leading Existentialists, partner of Sartre.
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Karl Barth
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Swiss Protestant Theologian. Said that humans were imperfect, sinful creatures.
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Gabriel Marcel
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French Philosopher and a leading Christian Existentialist thinker.
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Jacques Maritain
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Countryman of Marcel. Denounced Anti-Semitism and supported closer ties with non-catholics.
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Arnold Toynbee
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Historian. Either converted to religion or was attracted to it for the first time.
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T.S. Elliot
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Poet. Either converted to religion or was attracted to it for the first time.
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Max Planck
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German Physicist. Said atoms were not the building blocks of the universe.
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Graham Greene
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English novelist. Said that " One began to believe in heaven because one believed in hell."
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Albert Einstein
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German-Jewish Genius Physicist. Created the theory of relativity.
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Marie Curie
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Woman physicist. Discovered that radium constantly emits subatomic particles and does not have an atomic weight.
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Werner Heisenberg
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German physicist. Developed the "Uncertainty Principle."
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Sigmund Freud
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Psychologist who developed the "id, ego, and superego" human behaviors.
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Virginia Woolf
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English fiction writer.
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Marcel Proust
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French novelist. Wrote "Remembrance of Things Past."
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James Joyce
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Irish novelist. Wrote "Ulysses."
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Oswald Spengler
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German high school teacher. Wrote "The Decline of the West."
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Franz Kafka
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German-Jewish novelist. Wrote "The Castle" and "The Trial."
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George Orwell
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English novelist. Wrote "1984."
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Functionalism
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Buildings were designed with practicality, not with ornamentation.
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Louis H. Sullivan
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American architect. Created buildings(skyscrapers) without ornamentation.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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American, student of Sullivan. Built a series of radically new modern houses.
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Walter Gropius
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Built a shoe factory made of glass and iron. Created the Bauhaus.
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Bauhaus
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An Interdisciplinary school of architects. Created by Gropius.
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Claude Monet
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French Impressionist painter.
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Pierre Auguste Renoir
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French Impressionist painter.
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Vincent Van Gogh
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Great Dutch Impressionist Painter.
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Paul Gauguin
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French Impressionist painter. Painted with bold colors and images and focused on emotions and imagination.
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Paul Cezanne
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Painted with bold colors and images and focused on emotions and imagination.
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Henri Matisse
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French Expressionist painter. Painted real objects.
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Pablo Picasso
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Spanish artist. Invented Cubism.
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Wassily Kadinsky
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Russian Expressionist Painter.
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Dadaism
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An abstract style of painting.
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Igor Stravinsky
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Composer who caused a riot in Paris because of one of his ballets.
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Arnold Schonberg
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Viennese composer.
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Guglielmo Marconi
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Invented the radiotelegraph.
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Leni Riefenstahl
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German woman filmmaker who created a masterpiece documented propaganda for Hitler.
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John Maynard Keynes
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English economist who denounced the Versailles Treaty.
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Roymond Poincare
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French Prime Minister who sent an army to the Rhur in order to get some more money from the Germans.
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Gustav Stresemann
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German Prime Minister who called for a peaceful compromise with France and the reparations.
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Dawes Plan
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The U.S. would loan Germany money for it to pay back its reparations.
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Mein Kampf
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A book by Hitler where he outlined his struggles and plans. Means "My Struggle."
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Gertrude Stein
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American writer who lived in France. Said "Paris was where the 20th century was."
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Ramsay Macdonald
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Leader of the Labour Party
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Stanley Baldwin
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Leader of the Conservative Party
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"New Deal"
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A series of economic programs promised by Franklin D Roosevelt.
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Social Democrats
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Became the largest political party in Sweden and then in Norway in the First World War.
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Popular Front
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An alliance formed by the Communists, Socialists, and the Radicals.
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