unit 4 flash cards

Question 1

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 1

-It lists 30 rights that are believed should be guaranteed to all human beings throughout the world

-Example Universal Declaration of Human RIghts are the following approximately 6 million European Jews were killed during World War II.

Example some of the UDHR, You have no right to slavery,you have right to travel,etc

Question 2

United Nations

Answer 2

• An organization is defined as follows an international organization founded in 1945

-They work to confront global humanitarian issues all over the world including peace and security, climate change, sustainable development, human rights, disarmament, terrorism, humanitarian and health emergencies, gender equality, governance, food production, and more

Ex: global warming,climate change, human rights etc

Question 3

Pyramid of Hate

Answer 3

Genocide
The act or intent to murder an entire group of people based on their identity (national, ethnic, racial or religion)

Bias Motivated Violence
A physical or emotional act that causes harm to a person or group based on their identity (national, ethnic, race, religion, gender). Ex) Murder, rape, assault, terrorism, vandalism, threats,arson

Discrimination
Unfair treatment of a person or group based on their identity (race, religion, culture, gender, etc.)

Acts of Bias
Treating one person or group better or worse than another based on differences Ex) Teasing, name- calling, slurs, bullying, avoidance, put-downs, dehumanization

Biased Attitudes
Having negative thoughts or ideas about, or against certain individuals or groups based on differences

Question 4

Indian Removal Act

Answer 4

• it happened in 1830
• The act changed U.S. policy by giving the president the power to grant Indian tribes unsettled western lands in exchange for their lands in existing states in the East

Question 5

Andrew Jackson

Answer 5

-he became the seventh president of the United States in 1829
-cause of indian removal

Question 6

discrimination

Answer 6

Discrimination is the unfair treatment of people because they belong to a particular group

Question 7

Trail of Tears

Answer 7

-During the 1830s the U.S. government forced some 100,000 American Indians to leave their homes in the East and move to new lands west of the Mississippi River

Question 8

prejudice

Answer 8

• an unfair or dislike to a group or person

Question 9

japanese Internment Camp

Answer 9

-during 1942-1945 120,000 japanese americans were kicked out their homes and moved into internment camps

Question 10

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Answer 10

• Roosevelt used his powers to create jobs and to help those who needed help
  -Roosevelt became president in 1933
  -Roosevelt used his powers to create jobs and to help those who needed help

Question 11

attack on Pearl Harbor

Answer 11

-The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Sunday, December 7, 1941 The attack came without warning very early in the morning. It was made by Japanese submarines and carrier-launched aircraft.
-More than 2,300 Americans were killed in the two-hour attack. Eight battleships were sunk or damaged. Many cruisers and destroyers were hit. Most of the United States planes were destroyed on the ground. Japanese losses were 129 men, several submarines, and 29 of the more than 350 airplanes that had made the attack.
Ex world war 1

Question 11

bias

Answer 11

a Bias is a disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing
Ex: an old man playing soccer against a pro you believe the pro os going to win because he is younger

Question 11

scapegoating

Answer 11

scapegoating is the practice of singling out a person or group for unmerited blame and consequent negative treatment

Ex: scapegoating is, job loss to an influx of immigrants from a certain country is engaging in one-on-group scapegoating

Question 12

apartheid

Answer 12

-Racial segregation between land of colors
-Ex south africa

Question 12

segregation

Answer 12

-Segregation means the separation of some people within a society from others
Ex south africa

Question 12

Nelson Mandela

Answer 12

-1918–2013
In January 1990 Nelson Mandela was serving his 27th year as a political prisoner in South Africa
-He was freed the next month, and in April 1994 he was elected president of the country
- Mandela was a leader in the struggle against apartheid—South Africa’s official system of segregation and discrimination against the country’s nonwhite majority
-He became a worldwide symbol of victory against that system when he was freed from his life sentence in prison
-He was South Africa’s president from 1994 to 1999
Ex martin luther king

Question 12

F.W. de Klerk

Answer 12

-1936-2021
-When F.W. de Klerk was elected president of South Africa in 1989, he began an era of reform to bring the country’s Black majority into the government for the first time
-He helped end apartheid, a system of racial segregation and political and economic domination of the country’s nonwhite majority by the white minority
- By 1990 he had lifted the bans on the African National Congress, the South African Communist Party, and the Pan-Africanist Congress, and in 1991 the last apartheid

Question 12

African National Congress

Answer 12

-Founded in 1912, the African National Congress (ANC) is a political party and black nationalist organization in South Africa
-Beginning in the 1940s, the ANC led the fight against apartheid, the official South African policy of racial separation and discrimination
-The end of apartheid in the early 1990s enabled the ANC to become the country’s dominant political party.

Question 13

Robben Island

Answer 13

Robben Island is a small, low-lying island in Table Bay near Cape Town, South Africa

-It is about 5 miles (from the mainland and 6.2 miles north of Cape Town

Robben Island housed a notorious prison
Ex Alcatraz

Question 13

political cartoon

Answer 13

• a drawing often including caricature made for the purpose of conveying editorial commentary on politics, politicians, and current events

Such cartoons play a role in the political discourse of a society that provides for freedom of speech and of the press.

They are a primarily opinion-oriented medium and can generally be found on the editorial pages of newspapers and other journalistic outlets, whether in print or electronic form

Question 13

patriotism

Answer 13

-feeling of attachment and commitment to a country, nation, or political community
Ex america

Question 14

Nationalism

Answer 14

Nationalism is an ideology that emphasizes loyalty and devotion to a particular country, or nation

It places national interests above either individual or other group interests

Question 14

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 14

a peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied and associated powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919; it took force on January 10, 1920

Question 14

World War I

Answer 14

1914 to 1918
World War I was the most deadly and destructive war the world had ever seen to that time

More than 25 countries eventually participated, aligned with either the Allied or the Central powers

The Allies who won the war included primarily France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917, the United States

The Central Powers consisted mainly of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire/ Turkey

More than 65 million soldiers were mobilized for the armies, navies, and emerging air forces

Some 8.5 million lost their lives, and more than 21 million were wounded

Question 14

world war II

Answer 14

20 years after the end of World War I, lingering disputes erupted in an even larger and bloodier conflict

The war began in Europe in 1939, but by its end in 1945 it had involved nearly every part of the world

The opposing sides were the Axis powers consisting mainly of Germany, Italy, and Japan and the Allies primarily France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China

35 million to 60 million deaths, with millions more wounded or left homeless

Question 14

The National Socialist German Workers Party

Answer 14

a political party that came to power in Germany in 1933 under the leadership of Adolf Hitler

Party members governed by totalitarian methods until the collapse of the Nazi regime in 1945 at the end of World War II

1919 as the German Workers Party

Hitler attended one of its meetings that year, and his energy and speech-making skills soon enabled him to take over the party

Question 14

Adolf Hitler

Answer 14

1889–1945 born between
- became leader in 1934
-started world war II
-blamed the Jews that they were the ones that caused them to loss
-Saying that Jews were a race and killed 12 million of them during the Holocaust

Question 15

Holocaust

Answer 15

The mass killings were comprehensive and covered over 35 European countries.
the Holocaust more targeted and brutal was the systematic method the Nazi government employed to massively exterminate Jews, and the use of prisoners for human experiments were unique and unprecedented.

Question 15

genocide

Answer 15

acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group
exp Holocaust

Question 15

concentration camp

Answer 15

a place where large numbers of people are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution

Question 15

hate crime

Answer 15

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

Question 15

antisemitism

Answer 15

a hate to jewish people

Question 15

Milgram Experiment

Answer 15

a test to see how loyal/ teacher makes you go to do something under authority
Germany/Nazi/ Hitler

Question 16

Bashar al-Assad

Answer 16

The president of Syria
Has been at war with his own country for 14 years and used chemical bombs which is a hate crime on his own citizens.

Question 16

refuge

Answer 16

• A refugee is defined as someone who is forced to flee his or her country due to persecution, war, and violence
  ex Syrian war

Question 16

refugee camp

Answer 16

An area where refugee can stay at camps when they don’t have any ware to go.
Ex Jordan refugee camp

Question 16

barrel bomb

Answer 16

made of an oil barrel and has a lot of metal stuff/shrapnel and has fins on the side so if can hit the top to ignite the TNT.
Ex grenade

Question 16

holy city

Answer 16

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 16

Gaza strip

Answer 16

-Located along the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea
-the Gaza Strip is a rectangular territory covering 140 square miles
-land between Israel and Egypt
-Living conditions in the Gaza Strip remain poor, and the unemployment rate is high
-in an effort to end the fighting, Israel withdrew its troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip, completing the pullout in September 2005
-today the war going on with hamas and israel

Question 16

west Bank

Answer 16

• an area on Israel’s western flank
  -West Bank settlements, their interconnection by a system of highways from which Palestinians are excluded, and the construction by Israel of a security barrier (as Israel calls it), apartheid wall as Palestinians call it that departs from the 1967 border to enclose most of the settlements

Question 17

Vladimir Putin

Answer 17

-Born October 7, 1952
-a Russian intelligence officer and politician who has served as president
-Putin has shaped his country’s political landscape for decades with a mix of strategic maneuvers, military aggression against Russia’s neighbors, and controversial policies.
-Putin studied law at Leningrad State University, where his tutor was Anatoly Sobchak, later one of the leading reform politicians of the perestroika period
-war with ukraine

Question 18

Sanction

Answer 18

-an official order, such as the stopping of trade, that is taken against a country in order to make it obey international law

Question 19

Volodymyr Zelensky

Answer 19

born January 25, 1978
-President of ukraine
-Ukrainian actor and comedian who was elected president of Ukraine in 2019
-war with russia
-Although he was a political novice, Zelinsky’s anti-corruption platform won him widespread support, and his significant online following translated into a solid electoral base

Question 20

Soviet Union

Answer 20

-former country 1922–91 in eastern Europe and northern Asia bordering on the Arctic and Pacific oceans and Baltic and Black seas
-capital Moscow area 8,649,512 square miles
-They had taken Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
-largest country

Question 21

cold war

Answer 21

-After World War II the United States and the Soviet Union were the superpowers of the world
- They became rivals as they each sought to prevent the other from gaining too much power
- The period of tension that existed between them came to be known as the Cold War
- Although the conflict did not result in actual war between the two countries, it did lead to a number of smaller wars

Question 22

NATO

Answer 22

NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- The members are countries in Europe and North America
-All have made a promise to help defend each other if any of them is attacked. NATO was founded in 1949
-The countries of western Europe feared that the Soviets would spread Communism even farther,
-The United States and other western countries shared their concern
-This tension between the Soviet Union and its western rivals became known as the Cold War

Question 23

Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

Answer 23

-happened on August 6 hiroshima and August 9th Nagasaki 1945
- they were both atomic boy named “littler boy”
-they were on Japan after the attack on pearl harbor

Question 24

extra solomon

Answer 24

King of israel
Son of king david