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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.
What were the causes and effects of the Great Leap Forward?
Cause: Mao's attempt to rapidly transform China into a communist society. Effect: Widespread famine and social disruption.
What were the causes and effects of Apartheid in South Africa?
Cause: The Afrikaner National Party's desire to maintain white minority rule. Effect: Segregation, discrimination, international sanctions, and eventual dismantling of the system.
What were the causes and effects of Jim Crow Laws?
Cause: Desire to maintain racial hierarchy after emancipation. Effect: Segregation and discrimination against African Americans.
What were the causes and effects of the Chinese Civil War?
Cause: Conflict between Nationalist and Communist forces for control of China. Effect: Establishment of the People's Republic of China and communist rule.
What were the causes and effects of the US Civil Rights Movement?
Cause: Segregation and discrimination against African Americans. Effect: Increased rights and protections for African Americans, desegregation, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What were the causes and effects of the Western Australia Aborigines Act?
Cause: European colonization and the desire to control indigenous populations. Effect: Heavy restrictions on natives, including forced separation of children from their parents.
What were the causes and effects of increased literacy among women?
Cause: Increased access to education. Effect: Protests against restrictive systems and challenges to inequalities in job opportunities, voting, and political participation.
What were the causes and effects of the anti-apartheid movement?
Cause: Systemic racial segregation and discrimination against non-white citizens in South Africa. Effect: International pressure, UN embargo, end of apartheid, and Nelson Mandela becoming President.
What were the causes and effects of land redistribution in China?
Cause: Mao Zedong's communist policies aimed at collectivizing land. Effect: Terror, executions of landowners, and transfer of land to peasant communities.
What were the causes and effects of the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975 in Australia?
Cause: Growing awareness of the mistreatment of indigenous Aborigines. Effect: Made discrimination against indigenous Aborigines illegal.