“ISM”Are “isms” positive or negative in history?

ImperialismImperialism The policy of extending a nation's authority

by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations.

Examples: King Leopold Scramble for Africa. England controls, India, Canada, Egypt.

NationalismNationalism The policy or doctrine of asserting the

interests of one's own nation, viewed as separate from the interests of other nations or the common interests of all nations.

Examples: Hitler, Mussolini, Kemal Ataturk

CapitalismCapitalism

is an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for a private profit.

Example: United States, England, Australia Adam Smith (Wealth of Nations)

SocialismSocialism is an economic and political theory

advocating public or common ownership and cooperative management of the means of production and allocation of resources.

Example: Hitler, Karl Marx China, Venezuela

CommunismCommunism aims for a stateless and classless society

structured upon common ownership of the means of production, free access to articles of consumption, the end of wage labor and private property in the means of production and real estate.

Example: Cuba Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx

MilitarismMilitarism the belief or desire of a government or

people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests.

Example: Emperor Hirohito Iraq invading Kuwait

FascismFascism Fascists believe that a nation is an organic

community that requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong.

Example: Mussolini

ZionismZionism the national movement for the return of the

Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.

Example: Theodor Herzl

TotalitarianismTotalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a political system

where the state, usually under the control of a single political person, faction, or class, recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.

Example: Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini