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The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
Genocide
An organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Pogrom
The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
Globalisation
The Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jewish people in concentration camps between 1941 and 1945.
Final Solution
The protection or promotion of the interests of consumers.
Consumerism
The painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma.
Euthanasia
The action of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression; release.
Liberation
A standard technique or rule to be followed.
Convention
A totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens’ activities.
Police state
Something that is accepted, considered to be true, or held as an opinion
Beliefs
A fixed share of something that a person or group is entitled to receive or is bound to contribute.
Quotas
The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
Colonisation
A type of map that represents political divisions, or human-created boundaries, of the world, continents and major geographic regions.
Political map
A landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
Voting Rights Act
An internment centre for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment, usually by executive decree or military order.
Concentration camp
The circumstances or factors affecting the way in which people live, particularly with regard to their well-being
Living conditions
A far right German Workers’ Party
Nazis
Guardianship or management
Kaitiakitanga
Impartial and just treatment or behaviour without favouritism or discrimination.
Fairness
Latitude line 23.5° N
Tropic of Cancer
Any of the world’s 7 main continuous expanses of land
Continent
A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.
Tariff
The action of buying and selling goods and services
Trade
The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, or disability.
Discrimination