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Cold War   notion of competing systems (US and Soviet Union)  
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Fascism   An authoritarian right-wing system of government and social organization, led by dictator, combination of authoritarianism and nationalism, history of backlash against democracy in WWI  
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Spanish Civil War    
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NGOs   Non-Government Organizations in reference to human rights in the 1970s  
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Social rights   a value of western civilization that was not always implemented by political systems  
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1968   year of revolution, Paris to Prague (May 1968)  
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Arendt   American reporter present at the trial of Adolf Eichmann who wrote it down and had it eventually turned into Eichmann in Jerusalem  
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POUM   workers party for the Marxist unification  
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Genocide   the killing of a large group of people  
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Contingency in history   WWI is a case study of contingency in history, very powerful people made decisions that led to war; Role of chance in history  
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights   Passed by the UN in 1948  
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Nuclear Arms Race   Both Eastern and Western blocs interested in being better than the other (stockpiles of missiles)  
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Stalinism   originally ideas of communist movement, all about equality & based on democratic impulses  
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Amnesty International   Global human rights organization  
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Lenin   Said we need centralized control to fend off opponents of socialism Authoritarianism  
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Nazism   NSDAP, Hitler promised to restore national greatness & restore 3rd reich-harmony health and putting common good before individual; Anti-Semitism  
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League of nations   intergovernmental organization that ended WWI; resulted from the Paris peace conference, first group to incorporate world peace  
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Mussolini   fascist leader of Italy, part of Axis powers  
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Bureaucracy   non-elected officials that have control over laws and policies  
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Orwell   Englishman in POUM, gave 1st hand account of Spanish Revolution  
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Decolonization   the move away from colonization, process of previously colonized becoming independent  
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Eichmann   German in the Nazi regime in charge of deportation of European Jews to concentration camps; Tried and sentenced in 1961  
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Anti-semitism   Rise of European beliefs about race; Jewish faith defined as “different” in a bad way by communities (stems from Christian anti-Judaism)  
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WWI   1939-1945; “The Great War,” set the stage for other atrocities to occur, culmination of tension in Europe between Allies and Central Powers; reversed democratic trend  
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Totalitarianism   States strives for complete control over people’s lives (Ex  
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Banality of evil   Coined by Arendt; “evil” actions committed by ordinary people who believed that their actions were normal/routine  
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“Final Solution”   1941-1945; beliefs leading up to holocaustextermination camps, mobile killing units, racial utopia (Nazis believe it’s a good thing they’re doing)  
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Moyn   Intellectual historian, studying how ideas shape the course of history, putting the concept of human rights into a historical context  
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Participatory democracy   Process where political decisions are made directly by regular people, opposite of a Representative democracy  
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Nuremberg Trials   1945-1949; Trials that charged crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity  
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Anarchism   political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful  
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CNT   National Confederation of Labor; Anarchist/Loyalist revolutionary group, against capitalism and the state  
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Francisco Franco   general in Spanish military, attempted a putsch, won in election but led fascist movement  
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Russian revolution   aftermath of WWI, led to creation of the Soviet Union  
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WWII   1939-1945, a “total war” of all countries that contained significant events involving the mass death of civilians, including the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare; the deadliest conflict in human history  
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United Nations   an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace *Targeted genocide as a criminal act  
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National Sovereignty   nation is superior to the individuals of which it is composed  
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Crimes against humanity   offenses harshly against human dignity on a large scale, part of government policy  
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Extermination Camps   camps built by Nazi Germany to systematically kill millions of Jews by gassing and extreme work under starvation conditions (genocide)  
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