what was the primary motivation for campaigns promoting human rights during the 20th century?

Question

A. To help European countries maintain control over their African and Asian colonies

B. To highlight the positive global effects of nationalist groups around the world

C. To demonstrate that rapid globalization was dangerous for impoverished countries

D. To prevent atrocities like those explained by Jewish people in Nazi Germany

Answer 1

A doesn't really make sense, because the second half of the twentieth century was when European countries lost control over most of their possessions in Asia and Africa. B doesn't fit either, because humans rights campaigns were often directly opposed to nationalist groups. C appears to be close, but the dangers of globalization weren't really a factor in most 20th century human rights campaigns.

This leaves D as the correct answer. The Holocaust led to the deaths of millions of people, and it happened in part because of global indifference to human rights issues in prewar Nazi Germany. Post-World War 2 human rights campaigns had the goal of preventing similar atrocities from happening to other groups of people.