Human Rights and Global Hotspots

Question 1

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 1

A historic document which outlined the rights and freedoms everyone is entitled to.

Question 2

United Nations

Answer 2

The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

Question 3

Pyramid of Hate

Answer 3

The Pyramid of Hate
demonstrates that the hate of genocide is built upon the acceptance of behaviors described in the lower
levels of the pyramid.

Question 4

Indian Removal Act

Answer 4

The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.

Question 5

Andrew Jackson

Answer 5

The 7th US president and the one who let the Indian Removal Act pass in congress. It was one of his top priorities.

Question 6

Trail of Tears

Answer 6

The Trail of Tears was the forced westward migration of American Indian tribes from the South and Southeast.

Question 7

Discrimination

Answer 7

The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people.

Question 8

Prejudice

Answer 8

Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

Question 9

Japanese Internment Camps

Answer 9

During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated at least 125,284 people of Japanese descent in 75 identified incarceration sites. Most lived on the Pacific Coast, in concentration camps in the western interior of the country.

Question 10

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Answer 10

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the one who let the order 9066 (Japanese Internment camps) pass in congress.

Question 11

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Answer 11

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941.

Question 12

Bias

Answer 12

Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

Question 13

Scapegoating

Answer 13

Scapegoating is the practice of singling out a person or group for unmerited blame and consequent negative treatment. Scapegoating may be conducted by individuals against individuals, individuals against groups, groups against individuals, and groups against groups.

Question 14

Apartheid

Answer 14

A policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race in south Africa.

Question 15

Segregation

Answer 15

The action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.

Question 16

F.W. de Klerk

Answer 16

Frederik Willem de Klerk was a South African politician who served as state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to 1996 in the democratic government.

Question 17

African National Congress

Answer 17

The African National Congress is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election installed Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa.

Question 18

Nelson Mandela

Answer 18

Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country’s first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.

Question 19

Political Cartoon

Answer 19

A political cartoon, a form of editorial cartoon, is a cartoon graphic with caricatures of public figures, expressing the artist’s opinion. An artist who writes and draws such images is known as an editorial cartoonist. Political cartoons aren’t made to amuse you, but persuade you.

Question 20

Antisemitism

Answer 20

Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people.

Question 21

Patriotism

Answer 21

The quality of being patriotic; devotion to and vigorous support for one’s country.

Question 22

Nationalism

Answer 22

Identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.

Question 23

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 23

The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. One of the most important treaties of World War I because it ended World War I.

Question 24

World War I

Answer 24

World War I or the First World War, often abbreviated as WWI, also known as the Great War, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history.

Question 25

The National Socialist German Workers Party

Answer 25

The National Socialist German Workers Party, or The Nazi Party, was a pan-German movement that was formed at the beginning of the 20th century. The movement took a concrete form on 15 November 1903 when the German Worker’s Party was established in Austria with its secretariat stationed in the town of Aussig.

Question 26

Adolf Hitler

Answer 26

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II.

Question 27

Mein Kampf

Answer 27

Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926.

Question 28

Platform

Answer 28

A formal set of principled goals supported by a political party or candidate. The ultimate goal is to get votes

Question 29

Holocaust

Answer 29

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; around two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population.

Question 30

Genocide

Answer 30

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.

Question 31

Concentration Camp

Answer 31

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe. The first camps were established in March 1933 immediately after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. They were used to group up and kill unwanted foreigners.

Question 32

Hate Crime

Answer 32

A crime, typically one involving violence, that is motivated by prejudice on the basis of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or similar grounds.

Question 33

Milgram Experiment

Answer 33

The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures were a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram.

Question 34

Bashar Al-Assad

Answer 34

Bashar Hafez al-Assad is a Syrian politician who is the 19th president of Syria, since 17 July 2000. In addition, he is the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and the Secretary-General of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, which nominally espouses a neo-Ba’athist ideology.

Question 35

Refugee

Answer 35

A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a person who has lost the protection of his or her country of origin and who cannot or is unwilling to return there due to well-founded fear of persecution.

Question 36

Refugee Camp

Answer 36

Refugee camps are temporary settlements created to provide refugees with immediate aid and protection. Forced from home, refugees are often left with little to call their own. Lacking food, clean water, clothing and proper hygiene supplies, refugee children and their families are vulernalbe to disease, abuse and worse

Question 37

Barrel Bombs

Answer 37

Barrel Bombs are typically made from a large barrel-shaped metal container that has been filled with high explosives, possibly shrapnel, oil or chemicals as well, and then dropped from a helicopter or aeroplane.

Question 38

Holy City

Answer 38

A holy city is a city important to the history or faith of a specific religion. Such cities may also contain at least one headquarters complex which constitutes a major destination of human traffic, or pilgrimage to the city, especially for major ceremonies and observances.

Question 39

Gaza Strip

Answer 39

The Gaza Strip, or simply Gaza, is a Palestinian exclave on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The smaller of the two Palestinian territories, it borders Egypt on the southwest for 11 km and Israel on the east and north along a 51 km border.

Question 40

West Bank

Answer 40

The West Bank is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediterranean in Western Asia that forms the main bulk of the Palestinian territories. It is bordered by Jordan and the Dead Sea to the east and by Israel to the south, west, and north.

Question 41

Vladimir Putin

Answer 41

Vladimir Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer serving as the current president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2012, and as president from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012.

Question 42

Sanction

Answer 42

Sanctions are penalties or other means of enforcement used to provide incentives for obedience with the law, or with rules and regulations. Criminal sanctions can take the form of serious punishment, such as corporal or capital punishment, incarceration, or severe fines.

Question 43

Volodymyr Zelensky

Answer 43

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a Ukrainian politician and former comedian and actor who has served as the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019. President Zelensky’s leadership during the Russian invasion of Ukraine won him global acclaim.

Question 44

Soviet Union

Answer 44

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a transcontinental country spanning most of northern Eurasia that existed from 30 December 1922 to 26 December 1991.

Question 45

Cold War

Answer 45

The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc.

Question 46

NATO

Answer 46

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two North American.