History Flashcards
What are Human Rights?
Human rights are rights to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other condition.
What is The (UDHR)?
(UDRH) is the universal declaration of human rights where United Nations established people’s freedom and Human rights.
United Nations
The United Nations- This is a group that wanted world peace and kindness they wanted people to come together and unite with kindness and have countries be friends and now more fighting, They wanted everybody to speak their minds and have the freedom and speak their own thoughts they also fight for peoples rights in all countries so they have freedom. The United Nations didn’t want anybody to be controlled. they wanted countries to develop friendships with other nations.
Pyramid of Hate
The pyramid of hate shows biased behaviors and racism, many people or groups hate other people because of their race, nationality, or even culture this shows genocide, Bias Motivated Violence, Discrimination, Acts of Bias, and lastly Biased Attitudes. on the bottom it is the lowest acts of hate and on the top the highest acts of hate. The low act is Bias and the high act of hate is genocide.
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was A bais act towards the Indians and Natives. Their land was the best and the European Americans wanted it so the Indians had to leave because it was like that back then the Europeans living in their home and now on their land. The Native Indians walked 100’s thousands of miles and lived in camps many people died while walking, this was a terrible tragedy.
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was an American Lawyer, Planter, general, and statesman he also served as the 7th President of the United States from 1829 to 1837. He made and forced the native Indians to move out of their homes and knew he was on the European Americans’ side actually he was American. Andrew Jackson caused the Indian removal act which caused the trial of tears.
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears was an ethnic group, if people did not convert to Christianity by the time the Cherokee nation gave them then they would torture them to death and eventually kill them.
Discrimination
Discrimination is when people might be discriminated against by their religion or culture, There are also 3 types of discrimination- Race, Color, and Sex. Discrimination is prejudice in action.
Prejudice
Prejudice is when somebody criticizes or is racist toward a specific religion or culture that offends them. prejudice is an act when you thin k bad things in your mind.
Japanese Internment Camp
The Japanese Internment camp was during World War ll, These Japanese people were American Japanese half Japanese and half-American, and people discriminate against the color of their skin and there background. America and they thought they were Japanese so they should live in Asia which was super racist towards their religion so the government made all of the Japanese Americans move out of America into Internment camps because they didn’t belong which also came to an attack on the pearl harbor in 1942-1946 in Hawaii. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because they were mistreating them unfairly. They also bombed pearl harbor also to stop the United States from expanding more military places.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1833 to his death in 1945. FDR was the president when the Bombes on pearl Harbor happened In Hawaii he asked for war On Japan. This war was world war 2, this was one of the biggest events that started WWII, with Japan, Germany, and Italy, on one side were called the Axis, and then America, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union were called The Allied powers. This war was declared by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Scapegoating
Someone blaming a whole group when one person did the problem.
Bias
Bias Is the Negative thoughts or Ideas about or against a certain group based on differences, real or imagined without any factual bias prejudice is an example.
Apartheid
In 1948, the National Party came to power and voted to implement a series of restrictive segregationist laws, known collectively as apartheid.
The National Party enforced the policy of apartheid through a series of laws.
Apartheid was a social and political policy of racial segregation and discrimination.
In Afrikaans (the language of white South Africans), apartheid means “apartness”.
Segregation
It separated South Africa into whites and non-whites, restricting where blacks could live, work, travel, sit, go to the bathroom, eat, etc.
Under apartheid, blacks could not vote or participate in government.
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In 1951, government officials passed the Bantu Authorities Act
Placed all non-white population in “homelands”
Whites owned 80% of the land, although they only represented 10% of the population.
9 million South Africans were excluded from participating in the government
Nelson Mandela
In the 1950s, the African National Congress, or ANC, began to actively fight apartheid.
The goal of the ANC was to increase the rights of native Africans
Eventually, the ANC was declared illegal by the South African government and members were often arrested.
he was in Jail for 27 years.
Nelson Mandela was a leading member
Believed in nonviolent protests
Mandela was accused of plotting against the white-only government
He was arrested at the age of 46 and was sent to live in prison at Robben Island where he was forced to do hard labor
Only allowed one visitor every 6 months
F. W. DE Klerk
In 1989, F.W. de Klerk elected president and worked to dismantle the apartheid system
Almost immediately, de Klerk did away with the ban on the ANC
He released Mandela from prison in 1990
Mandela served a total of 27 years
F.W. de Klerk worked with Mandela to end apartheid.
In 1993, de Klerk and Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize for moving the country peacefully to a non-racial democracy.
In 1994 apartheid officially ended and South Africa held its first election open to all races.
Nelson Mandela was elected the first black president of South Africa.
he ended Apartheid and took part in it.
African National Congress
Was the congress where an active group that banned the apartheid laws and fought against them? This was after Apartheid they helped nelson Mandela get a representative for president.
Political Cartoon
Political cartoons are always about opinions specifically cartoonist opinions. to understand the opinion of the cartoonist they used images, labels, speech bubbles, captions, and titles. And there is always a point to a political cartoon.
