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UN - United Nations. An intergovernmental organisation based in New York that aims to maintain international peace and security.
Friedrich Merz - A German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union. He is expected to become the next leader after the recent German elections.
Nato - The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was founded in 1949 to unite Western democracies in Europe and North America against the perceived growing threat of the USSR. It now has 31 members.
Ally - A country that has agreed to support another one.
Holocaust - The murder of six million Jewish people in Europe by Nazi Germany. Members of other minority groups were also killed.
USSR - The United Socialist Soviet Republic, the USA’s main rival in the Cold War before it collapsed and broke up into a number of smaller states in 1991.
Autonomy - The right to make your own decisions.
EU - European Union. An economic and political union of 27 countries.
Human rights - The basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death. They apply regardless of where you are from, what you believe or how you choose to live your life. Some have called for animals and even natural phenomena like rivers to have some form of human rights.