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NZ's Search for Security

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  Overview, links to related topics and suggested classroom activities for this potential NCEA topic

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• Page 2 – Overview

  Background information for the NCEA Level 1 history theme New Zealand's Search for Security

• Page 3 – Related topics

  Links to topics relating to the Level 1 NCEA theme New Zealand's Search for Security

Human Rights Day

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  On 10 December 1948 – Human Rights Day – the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This declaration set out 30 articles or statements about human rights and freedoms. The Classroom includes a range of activities to support the teaching of this subject.

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• Page 1 - What are human rights?On 10 December 1948 – Human Rights Day – the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This declaration set out 30 articles or

New Zealand and the United Nations

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  New Zealand has a tradition of commitment to the concept of collective security. It was a member of the League of Nations between the world wars and was active in the establishment of the United Nations in June 1945.

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• Page 3 – Participation in the United Nations

  The United Nations Charter established six principal organs to achieve its aims. New Zealand has played a part in all of these organs.

• Page 4 – Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  In 1950 the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution to adopt 10 December as Human Rights Day. New Zealand has participated actively in human rights deliberations at

• Page 5 – Further information

  Find out more about New Zealand and the United Nations.

1981 Springbok tour

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  For 56 days in July, August and September 1981, New Zealanders were divided against each other in the largest civil disturbance seen since the 1951 waterfront dispute. The cause of this was the visit of the South African rugby team – the Springboks.

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• Page 3 - Politics and sportSouth Africa's apartheid policies and attitudes created obvious problems for New Zealand rugby, given the prominence of Māori in the

The Cold War

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  Although the origins of the so-called Cold War can be traced back to the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, this intense ideological struggle between the Western powers and the Soviet Union really began after the Second World War.

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• Page 4 – Treaties and alliances

  During the 1940s and 1950s New Zealand signed a series of collective treaties with Britain and the United States aimed at countering the threats of Japanese military resurgence

New Zealand in Samoa

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  New Zealand was ill-equipped to cope with the Western Samoa mandate allocated by the League of Nations in 1920. The Mau movement's passive resistance culminated in the violence of 'Black Saturday', 28 December 1929, which left 11 Samoans and one New Zealand policeman dead.

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• Page 8 - Towards independenceOn 4 June 2002 Prime Minister Helen Clark offered 'a formal apology to the people of Samoa for the injustices arising from New Zealand's administration of Samoa in its earlier