Pathfinders
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