HOMETHE CENTURY IN REVIEW
Y2K
Hey, You In That Bunker, You Can Come Out Now!
INDICATORS
World Population: Six Billion and Counting
Indicators of the Century
WORKSHEET:
Maps and Graphs in Focus
PERSON OF THE CENTURY
Albert Einstein: Person of the Century
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Runner-Up
Mohandas Gandhi: Runner-Up
WORKSHEET:
Voices of the Century
NATION
CAMPAIGN 2000
Primary Questions
How to Tell Them Apart
WORKSHEET:
Portrait of a Candidate
CONGRESS
Mutually Assured Destruction
PERSON OF THE YEAR
Jeff Bezos: King of the Internet
BUSINESS
AOL and Time Warner: Happily Ever After?
WORLD
GLOBAL ECONOMY
Rage Against the Machine
RUSSIA
No Tears for Boris
MIDDLE EAST
Men At Work
EAST TIMOR
On The Razor's Edge
WORKSHEET:
East Timor's Independence Struggle
JAPAN
The Japan Syndrome
PANAMA
Giving Up the Ship?
CUBA
A Big Battle for a Little Boy
ENVIRONMENT
Greenhouse Effects
WORKSHEET: Current Events in Review
Answers
Through their actions, the leaders, thinkers and inventors of the 20th century had a profound impact on the course of history. But these figures have left another important legacy: their words. On this page are collected quotations from 15 of the century's most significant figures. Some of these statements will probably be familiar to you; others will be new. Working with a group of classmates, do some research, pool your knowledge and match each quotation to its source. Make educated guesses where necessaryÐand don't forget to use the process of elimination!
________ 1. "This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itselfÐnameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
________ 2. "An eye for an eye will make the whole world go blind."
________ 3. "The great masses of the people...will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."
________ 4. "When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing, in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ÔFree at last, Free at last, Thank God Almighty, We are free at last.' "
________ 5. "Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself."
________ 6. "Science, freedom, beauty, adventure; what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved."
________ 7. "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for youÐask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
________ 8. "I fall, I stand still...I trudge on, I gain a little...I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory."
________ 9. "Cannot the nation that has absorbed 10 million foreigners absorb 10 million Negro Americans?"
________ 10. "We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
________ 11. "The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied."
________ 12. "I can feel the sufferings of millions; and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again."
________ 13. "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophes."
________ 14. "I will build a car for the great multitude...so low in price that no man will be unable to own one."
________ 15. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
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