HOI Chapter 11&12

Van Doren speaks of the "great war" as what, and why did it start (geographically why was it about the "world")

A conflict that that continued with intervals of peace for nearly a third century. It started to start over.

Where was the Boer War and who were the Boers?

Africa, and the Boers were the Dutch settlers.

Who was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia in June 1914(what started WWI)?

Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Negotiations to advert war continued for a month, but anger and indignation could not be reduced.

Van Doren describes the view of Frued that the cause of the "Great War" was the burden of what?

Civilization.

What does Van Doren refer to as "the most serious disease of the human species"?

Millennial Fever

In chapter 12, Van Doren speaks of John Locke's Second Treatise on Government(1689) as the contrast between what "two" states?

State of nature and state of civil society.

Van Doren describes the nations "economic zones." After 1900, moving into the 20th c.. which nations are "industrial", and what does that really mean?

Sweden, Italy, and Austria. It meant was that they had become economic powers.

Van Doren says the "progress of democracy" was possible only when what is "superior to the will of the ruler"?

Yes

What is "economic justice"?

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Describe what Van Doren says are the top three challenges to democracy in the 20th c.

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