Key terms

Question 1

Nationalism

Answer 1

Belief & Pride in your country

Question 2

Ultranationalism

Answer 2

Extreme nationalism that promotes the interests of one state or people above all others.

Question 3

Ethnocentrism

Answer 3

The attitude that one’s own group, ethnicity, or nationality is superior to others

Question 4

Racism

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

Propaganda

Answer 5

Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

Question 6

Dehumanization

Answer 6

Dehumanisation

the process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities.

Question 7

Indoctrinization

Answer 7

The process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.

Question 8

War Measures Act

Answer 8

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].

Question 9

What was the result of the War Measures Act?

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

Ukrainian Internment

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

Japanese Internment

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

Rape of Nanking

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

Bushido

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

The Kamikaze

Answer 14

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

Question 15

The Holocaust

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Anti-Semitism

Answer 16

Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people

Question 17

Auschwitz

Answer 17

An industrial town in South Poland; site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.

Question 18

Holodomor

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Ethnic Cleansing

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Yugoslav Civil War

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

Slobodan Milosevic

Answer 21

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

Question 22

War Crimes

Answer 22

An action carried out during the conduct of a war that violates accepted international rules of war.

Question 23

Rwandan Genocide

Answer 23

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.