Terrorism/Genocide
Humanitarian Acronyms
Geography
Civil/Proxy Wars
Natural Disasters
100
In 2014, this terrorist group opened fire on (and set fire to) two towns in the Borno state of Nigeria, killing more than 336 people. Following the attack, the group abducted 8 girls in northeastern Nigeria in the middle of the night.
Who is Boko Haram?
100
WHO
What is the World Health Organization?
100
What is Venezuela ?
100
This proxy war began after the 2011 Arab Spring protests when the current regime began attacking peaceful protesters, and has grown to include parties such as the Turkish army, Kurds, Russian forces, U.S. Special Forces, and ISIS.
What is the Syrian Proxy War?
100
Name the hurricane and island it struck on September 20th, 2017, killing over 3,000 people.
What is Hurricane Maria and Puerto Rico?
200
Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Young Turks devised a plan to exterminate this ethnic population. The genocide began with disarmament of this group at the start of WWI, and in 1915 the Young Turks mandated the annihilation of this group and began executing death marches. Over 80% of this group was eradicated, their cities leveled, and their cultural heritage wiped out by the Turks.
What is the Armenian Genocide?
200
IDPs
What is Internally Displaced Persons?
200
What is Bangladesh?
200
This proxy war lasted from 1950-1953, with the United States backing the democratic side and China and Soviet Union backing the communist side. Tensions between these two sides continue today. Though it is often forgotten, this was one of the deadliest conflicts of the 20th century, as 2.5 million civilians were killed/wounded and over 2 million soldiers killed/wounded.
What is the Korean Proxy War?
200
This agency was created by executive order by United States President Jimmy Carter in 1979 to coordinate responses to natural disasters in the United States. This agency also was given the responsibility to absorb the duties of 6 other federal agencies including the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration and the Federal Insurance administration
What is FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency)?
300
This genocide is also referred to as a refugee crisis, and is ongoing. It originated in the 1970s with discriminatory policies of this Southeast Asian country’s government against this ethnic minority population, and reached crisis level in 2017 with renewed violence including rape, murder, and arson enacted by the government/military against its people. The government refuses to grant citizenship to this group, and nearly 700,000 members of this group have fled to neighboring countries since August of 2017. The government of this country has rejected the UN declaration that this is, in fact, a genocide.
Who are the Rohingya muslims/What is the Rohingya crisis?
300
ICRC
What is International Committee of the Red Cross (and Red Crescent Societies)?
300
What is Burma/Myanmar?
300
This civil war took place from 1979-1992 in Central America as a result of tensions between the military regime and working-class, left-wing party. The military dictatorship was financially supported by the United States out of fear the country would fall to communism.
What is El Salvador/Salvadoran Civil War?
300
On may 22nd 1960 an earthquake reaching a 9.5 struck this Latin American country forcing over 2 million people into homelessness and causing nearly $3-6 Billion of damage.
What is Chile?
400
Roughly 15 million natives of this country were killed and exploited as a result of the brutal actions of King Leopold II and the Belgian army, their main goal being financial gain via the acquisition of natural resources. Became classified as a genocide in 2003 by the United Nations.
What is the Congo?
400
UNHCHR
What is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights?
400
What is Yemen?
400
During the 20th century, this newly split country fought two ethnoreligious civil wars when the central regime began abusing its subjects in the south, resulting in some of the deadliest civil conflicts in recent history
What is Sudan/the Sudanese Civil Wars?
1st Sudanese Civil War (1955-1972)
2nd Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005)
400
Earth Day, a worldwide celebration of environmental protection that occurs on April 22nd annually, was first celebrated in what year?
What is 1970?
500
This terrorist regime ruled Cambodia for four years, and in that time claimed the lives of about two million people. They made a dramatic attempt at social engineering, forcing millions of people from cities to work on communal farms, leading to the deaths of whole families as a result of execution, starvation, disease, etc. The regime isolated its people from the rest of the world, and abolished money, private property, and religion. Hundreds of thousands were tortured and executed in special centers. Hint: worldwide attention was brought to this atrocity with the 1980s movie The Killing Fields.
Who are the Khmer Rouge?
500
OCHA
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
500
What is South Sudan?
500
This civil war lasted from 1960-1996 as the rural poor rebelled against the corrupt military regime. Many of the rural poor were indigenous Mayans whom the government committed acts of atrocity against.
What is the Guatemalan Civil War?
500
On what day does the United Nations General Assembly observe the International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction?
What is the second Wednesday of October?