Key terms Flashcards
Nationalism
Belief & Pride in your country
Ultranationalism
Extreme nationalism that promotes the interests of one state or people above all others.
Ethnocentrism
The attitude that one’s own group, ethnicity, or nationality is superior to others
Racism
Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.
Propaganda
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
Dehumanization
Dehumanisation
the process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities.
Indoctrinization
The process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.
War Measures Act
The War Measures Act was a federal law that gave the Canadian government extra powers during times of “war, invasion, and insurrection, real or apprehended [feared].
What was the result of the War Measures Act?
During World War I, under the War Measures Act, internment camps were established at 24 locations across the country.
About 8,000 people, mostly Ukrainians and other Europeans, were detained because they were considered to be enemy aliens.
Ukrainian Internment
The Ukrainian Canadian internment was part of the confinement of “enemy aliens” in Canada during and for two years after the end of the First World War. It lasted from 1914 to 1920, under the terms of the War Measures Act.
Japanese Internment
Beginning in 1942, (after Pearl Harbour) the internment of Japanese Canadians occurred when over 22,000 Japanese Canadians—comprising over 90% of the total Japanese Canadian population—from British Columbia were forcibly relocated and interned in the name of national security. The majority were Canadian citizens by birth.
Rape of Nanking
In December 1937, Japanese soldiers entered the Chinese city of Nanking, where 90 000 Chinese soldiers had surrendered. Over a six - week period, the Japanese army tortured and killed at least 260 000 Chinese soldiers and civilians. Between 20 000 and 80 000 Chinese females aged 8 to 70 were raped and then killed by Japanese soldiers.
Bushido
Japanese soldiers also demonstrated a fanaticism spurred on by their indoctrinated belief that self-sacrifice for their Emperor was the only honorable action for a Japanese soldier. The manipulation of the code of Bushido (the way of the warrior) led Japanese soldiers to often refuse to surrender, preferring death to such dishonor.
The Kamikaze
When did became obvious the Japan was losing the war, kamikaze pilots began crashing airplanes into Allied ships. These pilots are receiving headbands during the ceremony marking the launch of a suicide mission
The Holocaust
The mass murder of Jewish people under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941 to 1945. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other particular groups such as Romani and gay people were murdered in concentration camps such as Auschwitz
Anti-Semitism
Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people
Auschwitz
An industrial town in South Poland; site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
Holodomor
Stalin believed that Ukrainian farmers were sabotaging his effort for his collective policies.
In 1932 to 1933 the USSR was experiencing family due to the environment in Stalin‘s rapid industrialization
He seized grain from Ukrainian farmers so much so that between 2.5 and 7.5 million people died
Stalin continue to take grain from Ukraine because he was trying to crush the call for Ukrainian independence. Ukraine was decimated and notions of independence were crushed resentment for Stalin‘s policies were so great that many Ukrainians joined the Nazis when Germany invaded the USSR in 1941
Ethnic Cleansing
The attempt to get rid of (through deportation, displacement or even mass killing) members of an unwanted ethnic group in order to establish an ethnically homogenous geographic area
Yugoslav Civil War
The countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia (including the regions of Kosovo and Vojvodina) and Slovenia. Used to be one Federation - Yugoslavia
Calls for more autonomy within Yugoslavia by nationalist groups led in 1991 to declarations of independence in Croatia and Slovenia. The Serb-dominated Yugoslav army lashed out, first in Slovenia and then in Croatia. Thousands were killed in the latter conflict which was paused in 1992 under a UN-monitored ceasefire.
Slobodan Milosevic
Slobodan Milošević was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who served as the president of Serbia within Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1997 and president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000
War Crimes
An action carried out during the conduct of a war that violates accepted international rules of war.
Rwandan Genocide
The conflict started on April 6, 1994, when a plane carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down. Under the cover of war, Hutu extremists launched their plans to destroy the entire Tutsi civilian population.
