Unit 7
Who is the leader of India'a nonviolent resistance movement to British imperialism/occupation?
Mahatma Gandhi
Who helped modernize Turkey
Kemal Ataturk
What is the Green Revolution?
The process of using modern technology in agriculture (particularly in the developing world)
Who created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
The UN (1948)
What is a criticism of the UN when it comes to Human Rights?
it doesn't stop or prevent it
What Chinese leader modernized China and allowed some capitalist investment but not democratic reforms
Deng Xiaoping
What happened in 1979 in Iran
Islamic Revolution
What are 2 downsides to Globalization
Climate Change
Disease
erasure of local traditions
local people losing their jobs to global compition
Neo Colonialism
What human rights violation happened in Rwanda
Genocide/Ethnic Cleansing between Hutus and Tutsis
What human rights violation in WW2 leads to the creations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Holocaust
Who controlled the area of Palestine/the Levant after WW1 and created the Mandate system leading eventually to the Palestine/Israel Conflicts
The British
like Westerners (Europeans)/ Modern
What is free trade?
Trade between countries without tariffs or barriers
Who led the genocide in Cambodia?
Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
What type of genocide is carried out by Milošević in the Yugoslav Wars?
Ethnic Cleansing
What system of racial segregation and discrimination did Nelson Mandela & The ANC fight to end AND in what country
Apartheid & South Africa
Who led the 1979 Revolution in Iran
The Ayatollah Khomeini
What is a tariff
tax on goods traded between countries
How did the mothers and grandmothers of victims of the dictatorship in Argentina fight back for human rights?
They began demonstrating in Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, in 1977, demanding information about their children who had been disappeared.
What modern Human Rights Violation is occurring in the Middle East?
genocide/ stoppage of medical supplies/food/water against the Palestinians
What country did Kwame Nkrumah lead after its independence from the British
Ghana
"The Gold Coast Colony"
Define Secular
non Religious
Name 2 International Organizations
UN
NATO
BRICS
WHO
World Bank
IMF
WTO
Where is the modern genocide happening right now in the Sudan?
The Darfur
- against ethnic African peoples
Name a current human rights violation that we did not talk about in class?
answers may vary