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What is the definition of Suffrage?
The right to vote in political elections.
What is the definition of Apartheid?
A system of segregation and discrimination based on race, specifically in South Africa.
What is the definition of Jim Crow Laws?
Laws enforcing segregation and discrimination against African Americans in the United States.
Define Re-education Camps.
Labor camps used in China (1957-2013) to punish those who broke the law or opposed the government.
Define the Great Leap Forward.
A communist plan in China to transform the country from an agrarian to a communist society, resulting in widespread famine.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)?
A UN General Assembly document adopted in 1948 outlining 30 articles of fundamental rights for all people.
Define Land Redistribution (China).
Policy under Mao Zedong where landowners were stripped of land and it was given to peasant communities; resulted in terror and executions.
What is the People's Republic of China?
The communist state established in China in 1949 after the Chinese Civil War.
Define the Afrikaner National Party.
The political party that instituted apartheid in South Africa in 1948.
What is the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975?
An Australian law that made discrimination against indigenous Aborigines illegal.
Who was Mao Zedong?
The leader of the Chinese Communist Party who implemented policies that led to human rights violations.
Who was Nelson Mandela?
A South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist who was imprisoned for his activism and later became President.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
A key leader in the US Civil Rights Movement.
Who was Rosa Parks?
A key figure in the US Civil Rights Movement.
Who was Kevin Rudd?
The Prime Minister of Australia who apologized to the indigenous population in 2008.
Who was Daisy Bates?
A leader in the US Civil Rights Movement.
Who was Betty Friedman?
A leader in the US Civil Rights Movement.
Who was Malcolm X?
A leader in the US Civil Rights Movement.
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
Played a key role in drafting the UDHR.
Who was involved in the Civil Rights Movement?
Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Daisy Bates, Betty Friedman, Malcolm X, and many others.
When was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted?
December 10, 1948.
When did the US Civil Rights Act prohibit discrimination?
1964.
When did the Afrikaner National Party institute apartheid in South Africa?
1948.
When was Nelson Mandela imprisoned for anti-apartheid activism?
1963 to 1990.
When did Nelson Mandela become President of South Africa?
1994.
When was the Racial Discrimination Act passed in Australia?
1975.
When did Kevin Rudd apologize to the indigenous population of Australia?
2008.
What was the Great Leap Forward?
A failed economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China from 1958 to 1962, causing widespread famine.
What was the Chinese Civil War?
A conflict between Nationalist and Communist forces, leading to the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
What were the re-education camps in China?
Labor camps from 1957-2013 that punished those who broke the law or opposed the government.