| A | B |
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| Anti-Semitism | Hostility to or prejudice against Jews |
| Assimilate | Absorb ideas, values, and ways of life to integrate into society |
| Atrocity | An act that is wicked, violent, or cruel |
| Boycott | Protest by refusing to buy goods or services |
| Diaspora | Distribution of people, usually involuntarily, from their original homeland |
| Dissident | A person who is against the government or its policies |
| Ghetto | A part of a city where miniorities live in isolation by law |
| Intervention | Interference by a country in another country's activities |
| Perpetrator | Person or group responsible for a harmful or illegal act |
| Refugees | People forced to leave their homes because of war |
| Regime | A government that rules during a certain period of time |
| Discrimination | Unfair treatment of individuals or groups |
| Propaganda | The deliberate spreading of ideas, true or untrue, with the purpose of manipulating public opinion to gain support for your cause |
| Responsibility | Personal and social accountability reflected in choices and actions that promote social justice |
| Prejudice | A preconceived attitude, opinion, or feeling formed without adequate knowledge, thought, or reason |
| Hate Crime | Violence, property damage, or threat that is motivated by an offender's bias against the target's race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, disability, or sexual orientation |
| Genocide | The deliberate adn systematic attempt to annihilate a national, racial, ethnic, or religious group of people |
| Racism | A set of beliefs based on preceived racial superiority or inferiority |
| Scapegoat | An individual or group unfairly blamed for problems they did not cause |
| Sterotype | A belief about individual characteristics about an entire group of people |
| Perpetrator | Some who commits an action |
| Ottoman Turks | Who pursued the genocide against the Armenians |
| Talaat Pasha, Enver Pasha, Temal Pasha | Political leaders of Turkey who enforced and encouraged the Armenian genocide |
| Concentration Camps | Places where Nazis detained people for the purposes of forced labour and extermination |
| Kristallnacht | Night of Broken Glass, Nov 9 1938 night when the Nazis killed or injured many Jews & destroyed many Jewish properties |
| The Genocide Convention | December 9, 1948 the UN passed document stating that genocide is a crime and they should stop, prevent, and punish those found guilty of it |
| Nuremburg Trials | Series of trials in 1945 conducted by an International Military Tribunal in which former Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes |
| Interhamwe | a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to reinstitute Hutu control |
| Hutus | majority group in rwanda;massacred tutsis |
| Tutsis | minority group in rwanda;massacred by hutus |
| Janjaweed | Black Arabic-speaking militia responsible for most of the Darfur genocide |
| Sudan | largest country in Africa, where Darfur takes place |
| Darfur | Western section of the country of Sudan which has suffered civil war since 2003 and has had over 500,000 people killed and 21/2 million people displaced from their homes |
