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Rights and Global Hotpots Flashcards

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What is the UN?

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The UN helps maintain world wide peace and security. The UN also helps develop relationships between nations.
It was created in 1954
It was created after WW2 and the Holocaust.

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What is the Pyramid of Hate?

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It is a way to visually depict how the seeds of have can grow from bias behaviors to violence and even genocide.
It shows how even little things support big things.

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What is the UDHR?

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The UDHR is a document with 30 rules about Human Rights.
Elenore Roosevelt helped creat the UDHR.

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What is Discrimination?

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Discrimination is being prejudiced against someone because of their sexual orientation, racial background, or disabilities.

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What is Prejudice?

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Prejudice is an opinion based on your though of mind.

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What is Bias?

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Bias is the act of discrimination against one group(or many) based on their physical or nonphysical features.

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What is Scapegoating?

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Scapegoating is blaming a group of people for something even though you have no evidence of them doing it.

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What is the Indian Removal Act?

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The Trail of Tears was the forced movement of many Native American tribes(such as the Cherokee) on many different paths. The end point they were forced to move to was what is now Oklahoma.

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Who is Andrew Jackson?

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Andrew Jackson what the 7th president. He, like many others, wanted the Native Americans’ land for his own. He forced many different native American tribes even when the supreme court said that it was wrong.

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What is Japenese Internment

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It was the forced movement of 110,000 Japanese civilians away from military camps into internment camps.

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What was the Attack on Pearl Harbor?

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It was a bombing of a military dock by Japanese soldiers to try and get America out of the Pacific with their military.

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Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?

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He was the 32nd president. He was in office during WW2

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What was the South African Apartheid?

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The South African Apartheid was a way to Racialy Segregate the blacks from the whites in South Africa.

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Who was Nelson Mandela?

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Nelson Mandela was the first black president of South Africa And helped stop segregation in South Africa.

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Who was FW De Klerk?

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FW De Klerk was a noble peace prize winner who stopped the apartheid.

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What was WW1?

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WW1 was a war that had all the major superpowers of the world play a role in it. It was started by Germany in 1914 and ended in1919.

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Patriotism vs. Nationalism

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Patriotism is being proud to live in a country and be a citizen but Nationalism takes that a lot further because then you might think poorly about other countries.

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What is the Treaty of Versailles?

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It was a treaty that ended WW1 that Germany had to sign. It stated that they had to reduce their army and pay reparations for the damages from the war.

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Who was Hitler?

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Hitler was the evilest person in the world. He was the leader of the Nazis in WW2 and was also a soldier in WW1. He was an Austrian-born German Nationalist.

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What is Mein Kampf?

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It was a book written by Hitler when he was in jail after starting a riot. The book explained how he was going to get into office through a non-violence way. He was going to gain the trust of the people.

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What is the Holocaust?

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State-sponsored persecution and murder of over 6 million Jewish people by the Nazis.

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What is a Genocide?

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The Deliberate Killing of a Large group of people. Mainly a different ethnic group.

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What is a Concentration Camp?

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A camp with a large number of people in harsh conditions.

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What is a Hate Crime?

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A crime motivated by bias against a group of people different from your own.

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What is the Arab Spring?

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The Arab Spring is a revolution that started in Tunisia and spread all throughout the Middle east and North Africa. This is a revolution about over throwing the government to get a better government in place.

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What is a Refugee?

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A refugee is a person who is forced to leave their country because of bad conditions or civil war or etc.

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What is a Barrel Bomb?

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A barrel bomb is a bomb that is an old oil bin filled with small projectiles that are dropped from a helicopter or plane that is high up.

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What is a Refugee camp?

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A refugee camp is a camp designed to hold refugees.

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What is Jerusalem?

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Jerusalem is the Holy City regarded as the center of the world because it was in the center of the known world before Christopher Columbus explored and “found” the new world. It is the Holy City of 3 religions

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What is the Gaza Strip?

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The Gaza Strip is a part of Palestine. It is very poor and dependent on aid. Isreal is building a wall around it. It is controlled by Hamas. They are very violent.

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What is the West Bank?

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The West bank is more peaceful and more modern. Isreal has let them have a government and Jerusalem is located in it.

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Who is Bashar al-Assad?

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Bashar al-Assad is the president of Syria. The Syrian people think he is a dictator because of his authoritarian rule. When the people protested, he fought back by using chemical weapons and barrel bombs.

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Who is Mohammad?

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Mohammad is the prophet of Islam.

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Who is Jesus?

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Jesus is the messiah of Christianity. He is the son of god.

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Who are Abraham and Solomon?

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They are prophets in Jewdaism.

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Who are the Uighurs?

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The Uighurs are the most predominant Muslim group in China. They are being prosecuted in Xinjiang because of their ethnic background and religion.

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Who are the Han Chinese?

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The Han Chinese are the most prodominant race in China.

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What is Xinjiang?

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Xinjiang is the northernmost province in China. It holds the most Uighur population in china.

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What is Sterilization?

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Sterilization is the process of forcing someone to have a medical operation to never have children.

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What is a Diplomatic Boycott?

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A diplomatic boycott is when a country doesn’t send diplomats to another country.

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What is a sanction?

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A sanction is the withdraw form trades or freezing of bank accounts and other assets.

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