Exam 8: Global Ethics and Human Rights

As of 2002, the governments of more than thirty countries qualified as theocracies.

A person practicing pacifist civil disobedience is a person passively accepting the prevailing values and norms of society.

The essence of ethics boils down to people trying to do what is right.

In which region are women's rights least egalitarian?

Suffragettes in America received the right to vote with the passage of the 19^th amendment to the U.S. constitution in 1920.

The crucial decision to Americanize the War in Vietnam was hammered out during a raucous Congressional debate shortly before the assassination of President John Kennedy.

The most highly-decorated U.S. military unit in World War II, the Fighting 442^nd, was comprised of:

The advent of the post-World War II global human rights movement has most directly cut into the viability of:

Actor Denzel Washington plays the role of nonviolent South African black leader Steven Biko in the movie, Cry Freedom. Biko's struggle against apartheid got him killed.

It was the government of Iraq that equated Salman Rushdie's literary novel with blasphemy and called on good Muslims to execute him.

President Harry Truman's message to Japan in 1945 emphasized what ground rules for the termination of the Pacific War?

The relocation of Japanese-Americans during World War II involved only a few thousand people, no personal property, and lasted for six months.

The Hiroshima bomb was a 1 kiloton bomb resulting in 10,000 deaths.

More than any other event, the Nazi Holocaust of World War II served as the catalyst for the development of an international law of human rights.

Select the group of officially atheistic countries:

Seventy percent of those who live in poverty around the world are women.

Those countries who placed human rights at the center of their foreign policies were referred to as:

Dropping the bomb, without warning and for military purposes, was the sole option available to President Truman in 1945.

From 1933-45 both the U.S. and Canada lived up to their ideals as havens for refugees by each taking in more than one million European Jews.