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Throughout this century, different groups
of people have used protest as a way of putting pressure
on governments to change policies or laws.
Protest groups use different tactics to
draw attention to their aims.
Some groups use marches or demonstrations,
but other groups can be more extreme and use violent means
- then they are called terrorists.
The peace movement became popular in Europe
and the United States after the terrible loss of life in
the First World War.
A group was formed called the League of
Nations.
The idea was that governments would be forced
to discuss problems together, in this way avoiding war.
However, many believe that Hitler's aggression
made the Second World War inevitable.
Later the development of nuclear weapons
and the Cold War led to the formation of anti-nuclear groups,
but when the Cold War ended, these groups lost a lot of
popular support.
However, this was not the end of popular
protest.
All over the world women are still fighting
to be the social and economic equals of men with the same
rights.
Amnesty International was founded in 1961
to fight for human rights and for people who suffered because
of their political and religious beliefs.
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