Definitions Flashcards
The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
Genocide
An organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Pogrom
The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
Globalisation
The Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jewish people in concentration camps between 1941 and 1945.
Final Solution
The protection or promotion of the interests of consumers.
Consumerism
The painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma.
Euthanasia
The action of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression; release.
Liberation
A standard technique or rule to be followed.
Convention
A totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens’ activities.
Police state
Something that is accepted, considered to be true, or held as an opinion
Beliefs
A fixed share of something that a person or group is entitled to receive or is bound to contribute.
Quotas
The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
Colonisation
A type of map that represents political divisions, or human-created boundaries, of the world, continents and major geographic regions.
Political map
A landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
Voting Rights Act
An internment centre for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment, usually by executive decree or military order.
Concentration camp
The circumstances or factors affecting the way in which people live, particularly with regard to their well-being
Living conditions
A far right German Workers’ Party
Nazis
Guardianship or management
Kaitiakitanga
Impartial and just treatment or behaviour without favouritism or discrimination.
Fairness
Latitude line 23.5° N
Tropic of Cancer
Any of the world’s 7 main continuous expanses of land
Continent
A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.
Tariff
The action of buying and selling goods and services
Trade
The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, or disability.
Discrimination
A very large expanse of sea, in particular each of the main areas into which the sea is divided geographically.
Ocean
A business that is owned and run by and for members, using democratic processes to give all members a say.
Co-operative
The leader of the Nazi party
Adolf Hitler
Rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status.
Human rights
Avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance
Sustainability
A piece of land surrounded by water.
Islands
Long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
Climate Change
An explanatory list of symbols/colours used in a map/graph
Key
A country with a relatively low standard of living, undeveloped industrial base, and moderate to low Human Development Index (HDI).
Developing country
The line extending between the South and North Poles that is the boundary between one calendar day and the next.
International Date line
The removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.
Deforestation
The opportunity or ability to act independently and take decisions without authorization.
Responsibilities
UDHR
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
A location on a map, which is found using the northing and easting numbered lines
Grid references
A particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; a point of view.
Perspective
International trade left to its natural course without tariffs, quotas, or other restrictions.
Free trade
The state of being equal, especially in status, rights, or opportunities.
Equality
Recognizing that we do not all start from the same place and must acknowledge and make adjustments to imbalances.
Equity
Dependent on each other
Interdependent
The study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable.
Eugenics
Prime/Greenwich meridian
0° Longitude
Treat (a person, group, or concept) as insignificant or peripheral.
Marginalize
Trade between companies in developed countries and producers in developing countries in which fair prices are paid to the producers.
Fair Trade
The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants.
Freedom
Hostility and ill-treatment, especially on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation or political beliefs.
Persecution
SDG’s
Sustainable development goals
A way of expressing where on the Earth you are. They are made up of an X value, or longitude, and a Y value, or latitude.
Co-ordinates
A representation of natural features of the earth such as mountains, plateaus, plains, rivers, oceans, etc.
Physical map
A legally enforced residential area for Jews.
Ghetto
Make (someone) feel isolated or estranged.
Alienate
Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people.
Anti-Semitism
Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp and extermination camp. Located near the town of Oswiecim in southern Poland.
Auschwitz
A sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.
Developed country
The area between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn.
Tropics
A stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively.
Resources
Send (goods or services) to another country for sale.
Export
Producing trendy and cheap clothing in large quantities at rapid speed.
Fast fashion
A transit camp for Czech Jews being transported.
Theresienstadt
The process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities.
Dehumanization
Ask questions of (someone) closely, aggressively, or formally.
Interrogation
Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or exercise of authority.
Oppression
Bring (goods or services) into a country from abroad for sale.
Import
The state of being extremely poor.
Poverty
A factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions.
Sweatshop
0° Latititude
Equator
The action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work
Exploitation
Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.
Racism
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.
Propaganda
A landmass made up of most or all of Earth’s land.
Supercontinent
A moral or legal entitlement to have or do something.
Rights
An industry that consists of the provision of services instead of end products. Services (also known as “intangible goods”) include attention, advice, access, experience and affective labour.
Tertiary sector
The action of making one view or belief compatible with another.
Reconciliation
Someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war or violence.
Refugee
A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
Stereotypes
Agricultural crops that are planted for the purpose of selling on the market or for export to make profit.
Cash crops
An extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury.
Atrocities
All the inhabitants of a particular place.
Population
A scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth’s subterranean movements.
Plate tectonics
The refusal to accept or comply with something.
Resistance
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Empathy
The state or quality of being worthy of honour or respect.
Dignity
The activity or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising.
Marketing
A system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.
Ideology
Latitude line 23.5°S
Tropic of Capricorn
An industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining.
Primary sector
Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
Prejudice
a member of a people that travels from place to place and has no permanent home.
Nomad
The genocide of European Jews during World War II.
Holocaust
The practice of growing crops and raising livestock sufficient only for one’s own use, without any surplus for trade.
Subsistence farming
An industry that manufactures goods rather than producing raw materials, or these industries considered as a group.
Secondary sector
Nazi German concentration camp that specialized in the mass annihilation (Vernichtung) of unwanted persons in the Third Reich and conquered territories.
Extermination camp
