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Unit 4 Flashcards

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Created by Eleanor Roosevelt and the UN; 30 Universal Rights for EVERYONE; Ex: We are all born free and equal; Def: Things to which you are entitled or allowed;1948;

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United Nations

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Maintains worldwide peace and security; Develops relations among nations; Originally 51 countries, now 193; Provides a forum for bringing countries together to meet the UN’s purposes and goals; Fostering cooperation between nations in order to solve economic, social, cultural, humanitarian, international problems;

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Pyramid of Hate

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It goes from 1. Biased Attitudes, negative thoughts/ideas against certain groups; 2. Acts of Biased, Treating one person/group better/worse than another, 3. Discrimination, Unfair treatment to person/group based on identity; 4. Bias Motivated Violence, Physical/emotional act that causes harm; 5, Which is the worst, The act/intent to murder an entire group based on identity/genocide;

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Indian Removal Act

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Native American’s from East are forced to move West of the Mississippi River; Native American’s went to court, won, but Andrew Jackson still made them move; Moved the 5 Civilized Tribes;

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Andrew Jackson

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7th President; 1829-1837; Enabled Indian Removal Act even though it was overruled by the Supreme Court;

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Trail of Tears

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Indian Removal Act; Removed 5 Civilized Tribes and more; 100k forced to leave 15k died; Forced west of Mississippi; 1600-1800; Occurred because, tribes sided with British, to get land, discovery of gold in Georgia; 1830 enforced by Andrew Jackson;

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Discrimination

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Unfair treatment to person or group based on identity; A negative behavior toward member of out-group;

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Prejudice

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drawing negative conclusions about a person, group of people, or situation prior to evaluating the evidence; Prejudice=Attitude;

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Bias

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Treating one group/person, better/worse than another;

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Stereotypes

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A belief, positive/negative; About the characteristics of member of group that is applied generally to most member of the group;

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Apartheid

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Def. System of racial segregation that governed South Africa for soy; 148 Apartheid Laws; Introduced 1948; Ended 1994:

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Segregation

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Usually based on race; Def the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others:

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Nelson Mandela

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First Black president of South Africa; Anti-Apartheid; Born Rolihlahla Mandela on July 18, 1918 in Mvezo; Descendant of of royals; 1944 joined ANC; Captured 1962 released 1990; 1994 Gained presidency;

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F. W. de Clark

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In 1989 elected president and dismantled apartheid; Released Nelson Mandela and ANC ban; Worked with Mandela to end Apartheid; 1993 Received Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela; 1994 Officially ended Apartheid;

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African National Congress

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ANC;

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Robben Island

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Prison for SA; 7 miles North of Cape Cod; Used as prison, hospital, military base; Nelson Mandela imprisoned there for 27 years;

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Political Cartoon

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Political person, event, institution, or idea of the cartoons opinions; Purpose: to persuade you to take cartoonists POV; Current events; Propoganda: biased/misleading;

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Patriotism

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The quality of being patriotic; Devotion to vigorous support for one’s country;

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Nationalism

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Identification with one’s own nation and support for it’s interest, especially to the exlusion of detriment of the interests of other nations;

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Treaty of Versailles

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A document signed between Germany and the allied powers following WW1 that officially ended WW1;

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World War I

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1914-18; Called First WW, Great War, War to end all Wars; Most deadly/destructive at the time; MAIN causes, Militarism-Glorification of Buildup/Reading, Alliances-Truce/Treaty, Imperialism-political/economic control over nations, Nationalism- Identification with nation + support for interest of other nations;

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World War II

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Causes, Treaty of Versailles, Economic Depression, Rise of Fascism, Failure of League of Nations, Appeasement; Hitler Started;1939-1945;

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The National Socialist German Workers Party

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Commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party; Was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920-1945; Created + supported the ideology of Nazism; Blamed Jews for WW1;

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Adolf Hitler

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Anarch of Germany; Nazi Party Leader; Wanted to lead a genocide against Jews;

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Mein Kamfp

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Anti-Semitism; Book by Adolf Hitler; My Struggle;

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Platform

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Formal set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate, in order to appeal to the general public for the ultimate purpose of gaining the general public’ support+vote about complicated topics/isues;

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Holocaust

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Systematic state-sponsored persecution; Murder of 6mil Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators; Greek meaning, “sacrifice by fire”;

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Genocide

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The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group/nation;

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Concentration Camp

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Created to confine large numbers of prisoners (political opponents too) in harsh+unhealthy conditions;

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Hate Crime

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Motivated by bias against race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or disability;

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Antisemitism

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Do not like Jews; Def: hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people;

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Milgrem Experiment

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Experiment to know why people followed Hitler’s order; Ordinary people have the potential to inflict harm on others (especially authority); 65%

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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“FDR”; Said “A day that will live in infamy”; Us president from 1933-1945; 32nd President;

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Attack on Pearl Harbor

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US Naval Base in Hawaii; Japan Attacked; Before, US was neutral-give aid to GB and France, Japan want to end sanctions; Dec 7, 1941 “A day will live in infamy” FDR; 2.3k Killed in 2hrs, 8 ships sank, 2 1/2 Hour declared war; Executive Order 9066;

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Japanese Internment Camp

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Executive Order 9066- 110k Japanese were sent to internment camps; Took only what you can hold; Assembly centers-temporary sorting centers; War relocation- lived in barracks for 3 years; 10 camps for 110k Japanese;

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Refugee

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Def: a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster;

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Barrel Bombs

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Put things in barrels, add fins and noses, send straight down to detonate on nose;

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Ghetto

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Specific area of a city/town in which Jews forced to live (often not permitted to leave) were overcrowded+deprived of sufficient food+other supplies;

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Atomic Bomb

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Dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima; Fatal to many people and cause birth effects;

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Nagasaki and Hiroshima Bombing

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Killed 226k people; Dropped on August 6th and 9th, 1945; Japan surrendered August 15, 1945: Officially ending war September 2nd, 1945;

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Holy City

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Jerusalem, Israel; Home to the 3 divine religions, Islam- where prophet Muhammad ascend to heaven; Jewish- The Western Wall; Christianity- Church of Holy Sepulchre;

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Gaza Strip

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Poor; Ruled by Hamas; On the Med; Part of Palestine;

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West Bank

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More Peaceful than Gaza; Ruled by Fatan; Inland; Part of Palestine;

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Uighur/Uyghur

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Nomadic Turkic people native to China’s northwest region Xinjjing; Most Muslim which puts them on odds with Chinese Communist Party; 12Mil Uyghurs live in Xinjjing, Kazakhstan, Turkey and other countries;

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Sanction

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The tool of choice to respond to major geopolitical challenges such as terrorism and conflict; On of the most favored tools for governments to respond to foreign policy challenges; Can include travel bands, asset freeezes, arms embargoes, and trade restriction; imposed economic sanctions to coerce, deter, punish, or shame entities that endanger their interests or violate international norms of behavior

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Xinjjang

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Northwest Region of China; 1/6 of China; Western Han Dynasty took control of area in 60 BCE; Home to Uyghurs;

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Han Chinese

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Largest Ethnic Group, 90% of Chinese Mainlanders; 1/5 People in the world are Han Chinese; Original language Hanyu; Confucianism and Taoist Buddhism;

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Sterilization

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Def: the process of having a medical operation to make it impossible to have children;

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Diplomatic Boycotts

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Not a full boycott, does not prevent American athletes from competing in the Games; Gov. Officials didn’t attend; Including US, Australia, UK, Canada, Japan, Estonia, Lativa, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Denmark;

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Refugee Camp

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Humanitarian camps for refugees during and after war; Def: A temporary settlement built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations;

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