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TYRANTS

These research suggestions and websites might help you with your research on people who have abused human rights.

Subject headings, keywords
Use the surnames of any of the people listed to look in encyclopedias.
War, war crimes, tyrants, dictators, concentration camps, "The killing fields", cultural revolution in China, apartheid, gangsters, prohibition, world war 2, refugees

Dewey Numbers
321.9, 920, 940.53, 943-980

Information File
Hitler, refugees


Reference:
Encyclopedias, Britannica, World Book

On-line databases and websites
Britannica Online http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/
    
login on the left side of the page under the EPIC heading
    login - darfieldhs, password: 22darfieldhs. 
    Scroll down to blue highlighted links - 'Britannica online school edition K-12'
    or the 'Discovering Collection' (also biographies and science plus more)
 Choose either Primary, Secondary or High School levels or 'search all levels'

http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-1236.html  Hitler and the Jews http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/78988.stm  Pol Pot dictator of Cambodia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet Pinochet, dictator of Chile
http://www.bartleby.com/65/ji/JiangQin.html Jiang Qing, Chairman Mao's wife
http://www.bartleby.com/65/cu/Cultural.html Cultural revolution in China
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1100529.stm  Saddam Hussein, dictator of Iraq
http://www.africanaencyclopedia.com/apartheid/apartheid.html Apartheid
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/aparthei  Apartheid and Hendrik Verwoerd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Frensch_Verwoerd  Hendrik Verwoerd
http://www.answers.com/topic/idi-amin  Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator
http://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone.html   Al Capone, American gangster
http://www.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_tojo.html   Hideki Tojo, Premier of Japan during WW2
http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,,2036161,00.html#article_continue  Robert Mugabe