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Unit 4
Human Rights and Global Hotspots
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the Declaration Of Human Rights? | The Declaration Of Human Rights is the right the every human has. There are 30 laws. The Declaration Of Human Rights was created after World War 2 by the United Nations. These laws were created in 1948 to protect the rights of every human. |
| What is the United Nations? | The United Nations was a organization between countries around the world, and used to keep peace between nations and protect the rights of humans. The U.N. was created in 1945 |
| Who was Andrew Jackson? | Andrew Jackson was an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States. He started the Indian Removal Act. March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845 |
| What was the Indian Removal Act? | The Indian Removal Act created by Andrew Jackson in May, 1830. The act was created for white Americans to get more land and get the Indians off the land. |
| What was the Trail of Tears? | The Trail of Tears was part of the Indian Removal Act, a series of forced displacements and ethnic cleansing of approximately 60,000 Native Americans. |
| Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt? | Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the U.S.A and was the serving president during World War 2. He was elected as president 4 times. He started the Japanese Internment Camps. |
| What were the Japanese Internment Camps? | The Japanese Internment Camps were created 1942 after the Bombing Of Pearl Harbor. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and many other Americans saw the Japanese-Americans as a threat to America and began putting them in internment camps. |
| What was the Attack on Pearl Harbor? | The Attack on Pearl Harbor was when Japan attacked the U.S. Naval Base in Hawaii and killed over 2,300 Americans. The attack happened on December 7, 1941. 2 1/2 hours later Japan declared war on the U.S. and in result America joined World War 2. |
| What is Apartheid? | Apartheid is a government policy of racial segregation. Also a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. Apartheid is a South African word. |
| What is Segregation? | Segregation is the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart and the enforced separation of different racial groups. |
| Who was Nelson Mandela? | Nelson Mandela was a leading member in the ANC and the first democratically elected president of South Africa. He was arrested at 46 and serving a life sentence and after serving 27 years in prison he was freed by F.W. de Klerk. July 1918 - Dec, 2013 |
| Who was F.W. de Klerk? | F.W. de Klerk was a leader in the National Congress and president of South Africa. He freed Nelson Mandela and together they worked to end apartheid in South Africa and they won a Nobel Peace Prize. March 1936 - November 2021 |
| What was the African National Congress? | The African National Congress or the ANC was an opposition group of the British Republic of South Africa. Created in 1950 to fight South African apartheid. Today it is currently a social democratic party in South Africa. |
| What is a Political Cartoon? | A Political Cartoon is a cartoon that makes you think about current events and will try to persuade the creators opinions. They can be funny, nut there purpose is not to amuse you but persuade you. Many cartoons have mostly visuals, but can have words. |
| What is Prejudice? | Prejudice can be an affective feeling towards a person based on their perceived group membership. Also it can be harm or injury that results or may result from some action or judgment. |
| What is Patriotism? | Patriotism is the quality of being patriotic; devotion to and vigorous support for one's country. EX: Hanging a flag, supporting your national team, etc. |
| What is Nationalism? | Nationalism is identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations. |
| What is the Treaty of Versailles? | The Treaty of Versailles was a document signed between Germany and the Allied Powers that ended WW1. The document made Germany responsible for the war, pay all war costs, and lose 13% of their land. If not signed Germany would be invaded. |
| What is World War 1? | World War 1 also known as the Great War was when Allied Powers and Central Powers fought. From 1914 to 1918, 135 countries went to war and over 15 million killed. The war started after the king and queen of Austria were killed by Black Hands. |
| What is a Platform? | A platform is a 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 garnering the general public's support and votes about complicated issues or topic |
| What was The National Socialist German Workers Party? | The National Socialist German Workers Party or the Nazis was a far right political party in Germany that was active between 1920-1945. They were against the Treaty of Versailles and the Jews and a big part of WW2. |
| Who was Adolf Hitler? | Adolf Hitler was born in Austria in 1889 and served in WW1. He was the dictator of Germany from 1933-1945. He started the prosecution of Jews and wrote Mein Kampf. He created Nazism and started WW2 by invading Poland. Hitler died in 1945. |
| What is Mein Kampf? | Mein Kampf is a book written by Adolf Hitler and means 'My Struggle'. Hitler wrote this as he was in prison and it is his autobiography. |
| What was the Holocaust? | The Holocaust was systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of around 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. In Greek it means ' sacrifice by fire' |
| What is Genocide? | Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people especially those of a particular ethnic group or government. Examples: The Holocaust and the genocide of Muslim Uyghur in China. |
| What is Resistance? | Resistance is the refusal to accept or comply with something: the attempt to prevent something by action or government. Examples: Palestinian Intifada (uprising) |
| What is a Concentration Camp? | A Concentration Camp is a camp created to confine large numbers of prisoners in harsh and unhealthy conditions. Examples: Auschwitz Camps |
| Who is Bashar al-Assad? | Bashar al-Assad is the current dictator of Syria. He was born in 1965 and assumed power in 2000. He has killed thousands of his fellow Syrians. He is extremely unliked by many Syrians. |
| What is a Refugee? | A Refugee is someone who flees from their country because of war or persecution. There are over 26.4 million refugees across our world today. |
| What is a Refugee Camp? | A Refugee Camp is a camp where tens of thousands of refugees are living in. They are usually simple tents that do not prevent the cold. They are usually on boarders of neighboring countries. |
| What is a Barrel Bomb? | A Barrel Bomb is a bomb that contains explosives, nails, and pieces of metal. These weapons have been used by the Assad Regime and are dropped from helicopters high in the sky. |
| What is the Holy City? | The Holy City, important to many religions. For Muslims it is where Prophet Mohamed ascended into heaven and the Dome of the Rock. For Christians it is where Jesus was crucified. For Jews it is where Abraham almost sacrificed his son and the Western Wall |
| What is the Gaza Strip? | The Gaza Strip is located between Egypt and Israel. Since 2007 it has been blockaded from land, sea, and air by Israel. Ruled by Hamas, it is home to over 2 million Palestinians. Every so often it is brutally bombed by Israel. |
| What is the West Bank? | The West Bank is located between Jordan and Israel. It is ruled by the PA and home to more than 2.7 million Palestinians. Many of the land is currently being illegally annexed by Israel and Jewish settlers. |
| Who are the Uighurs? | The Uighurs are an ethnic Turkish group to Xinjiang or East Turkestan. They are mostly Muslim. They have been facing a genocide by the Communist Chinese Regime. |
| What are Sanctions? | Sanctions have become one of the most common ways to put pressure and attack a country without getting involved on the ground. Many countries use sanctions to make a country stop what they're doing, whether it's abusing human rights or something else bad |
| What is Xinjiang? | Xinjiang is ruled by China with over 21.8 million people living there, and most of the population are Uighurs. The land used to be East Turkestan until China occupied it in 1949. The land has many resources like cotton, oil, and natural gases. |
| Who are the Han Chinese? | The Han Chinese, about 90% of China's population. Almost 1 in 5 people are ethnically Han. During the Golden Age of China many Hans invented fireworks, rockets, gunpowder, cannons, matches, paper, printing, silk, compass, and earthquake detectors |
| What are Sterilizations? | Sterilization is the process of having a medical operation to make it impossible to produce young, or the condition of being unable to produce young. Many Uighurs are forced to have a sterilization by China so they can't have any more Uighur children. |
| What is a Diplomatic Boycotts? | A Diplomatic Boycott is when many countries boycott an event hosted by another nation. One of the many diplomatic boycotts are boycotting the 2022 Winter Olympics by the US, UK, and other nations to put pressure on China to stop it's genocide on Uighur |
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