Human Rights
This basic human right allows people to practice the religion of their choice.
What is freedom of religion?
Treating someone unfairly because of their race, religion, gender, or other differences.
What is discrimination?
What high school subject does Ben Ross teach?
What is History?
Approximately 6 million Jews were murdered during this genocide.
What is the Holocaust?
In this experiment, participants were told to deliver what they believed were painful electric shocks to another person when instructed by an authority figure.
What is the Milgram Experiment?
This right protects a person's ability to express opinions without fear of punishment.
What is freedom of speech?
Strong dislike or unfair opinions about a group before knowing the facts.
What is prejudice?
What hand gesture do members of The Wave use?
What is the Wave salute?
About 800,000 people were killed in 100 days during this genocide in 1994.
What is the Rwandan Genocide?
This experiment showed how ordinary people could adopt the roles of guards and prisoners.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
This right states that everyone should have access to learning and schooling.
What is the right to education?
The deliberate destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
What is genocide?
The motto "Strength Through Discipline" was associated with this classroom movement.
What is The Wave?
This genocide targeted Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
What is the Armenian Genocide?
This teacher divided students by eye color to demonstrate discrimination.
Who is Jane Elliott?
This human right protects people from being tortured or subjected to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.
What is freedom from torture?
The process of making a group seem less than human.
What is dehumanization?
This student newspaper editor investigated and questioned The Wave.
Who is Laurie Saunders?
This genocide in Cambodia was carried out by the Khmer Rouge under this leader.
Who is Pol Pot?
This psychologist led the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
This organization was created after World War II to promote peace and human rights worldwide.
What is the United Nations?
The spread of information, ideas, or messages designed to influence people's opinions or actions, often using biased or misleading information.
What is propaganda?
What is the message of The Wave?
What is the importance of independent thinking and resisting blind obedience?
This genocide occurred in Bosnia and included the massacre at Srebrenica.
What is the Bosnian Genocide?
These experiments demonstrated that many people will obey authority figures even when it conflicts with their personal beliefs.
What are the Milgram Experiments?