| A | B |
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| Genocide | Any act committed with the idea of destroying an entire national, ethnic, racial or religious group |
| Anti-Semitism | prejudice against Jewish people |
| Holocaust | the systematic genocide of about six million European Jews by the nazis during World War II |
| Al Qaeda | a fundamentalist Islamic terrorist organization led by Osama bin Laden |
| Islamic Fundamentalism | Movement in the Arab world which stresses traditional islamic values and laws |
| ethnic cleasning | Used to describe a vicious campaign of forcing people from their homes and killing them to create an ethnically pure areas. |
| multi-ethnic | made up of many ethnic groups |
| dominate | to control or have power over |
| Yugoslavia | Created after WWI, but broke apart after a vicious civil war where many lost their lives as a result of ethnic cleansing especially the muslims. |
| Slobodan Milosevic | A Serbian President who began a campaign of ethnic cleansing against ethnic Albanians and convicted of crimes against humanity |
| Apartheid | South African policy of racial segregation. |
| Pass laws | South African Apartheid law requiring all non-white to get legal permits to travel withing their own country |
| Rwanda | Small country in central Africa which experienced one of Africa's most deadly civil wars |
| Hutu | Majority tribal group in Rwanda who was responsible for the killing of a million Tutsis in 100 days. |
| Pol Pot | Communist Khmer Rouge leader responsible for genocide against his people |
| Taliban | A muslim fundamentalist group in Afghanistan |
| Saddam Hussein | leader of Iraq who was captured and executed for crimes against his people |
| Kurds | an ethnic group in Iraq who were victims of genocide by the Iraq qovernment |
| United Nations | international peace keeping organization created after WWII |
| N.A.T.O | Present day military Alliance among the democratic nations of the world |
| Mao Zedong | Totalitarian leader of Communist Chia |
| Great Leap Forward | economic policy that destroyed China's economy |
| Armenian Genocide | Killing of ethnic Armenians by the Ottoman's during WWI |
| Nuremberg Laws | Nazi laws which denied Jew of their human rights |
| Ukranian Genocide | A forced Famine created by Stalin to increase agricultural surplus |
| Famine | severe shortage of food in which large number s of people starve |
| Darfur, Sudan | ethnic conflict between Arab government and non-arab citizens |
| Afghanistan | Middle Eastern country ruled by the Taliban and refused to surrender terrorists responsible for the attack on the world trade center rubble |
| Iraq | Home of Saddam Hussein |
| Ethnic group | large group of people who share the same language |
