Holocaust and Human Rights
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- Apartheid
- Separating Blacks from Whites in South Africa, limiting black rights
- Nuremberg Laws
- A group of laws that robbed German Jews of their citizenship in 1935
- Nelson Mandela
- He was put in jail for 26 years and then became the first black president of South Africa
- Domestic Violence
- 31% of all women in America have to face this during their lifetime.
- Shoah
- Jewish word for Holocaust
- Susan B. Anthony
- Woman who was arrested and fined $100 for attempting to vote
- Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
- 19 Germans were put on trial during this event that officially ended the Holocaust
- Gender Equality
- Belief in equality of men and women, regardless of their age
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- She was the 1st delegate to the United Nations
- Anne Frank
- This young girl died of Typhus in a death camp, but this was after she wrote her famous diary. Her father had it published!
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Document that was adopted by the UN in 1948 to protect the rights of all people
- Holocaust
- The systematic anhialation of 6 million Jews and 5 million others
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- This writer was very passionate about women's rights and even went so far as to challenge Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- Utilitarians
- People that want to use government to make society better
- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
- This person was prevented from receiving her Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 because she stood up for democracy
- NGO (non-governmental organization)
- a group that is not tied to a particular government, but that still has a voice in world affairs
- Einsatzgruppen
- Nazi strike forces that killed innocent Jews with their infamous "death squads"
- Genocide
- The killing of a people from the same race, political group, or group.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- This Enlightenment thinker was very biased against women during his lifetime, as can be seen in his writing.
- Gender
- Word that means whether or not a person is a "boy" or "girl"
- Amnesty International
- An NGO that contributes to the observance of human rights throughout the world-a "watchdog" organization.
- Alice Paul
- Woman who went on a hunger strike after being denied her rights by Woodrow Wilson
- Gender Discrimination
- treating one gender better than another without any fair or proper reason
- Crematoriums
- Huge ovens in which bodies were burned during the Holocaust