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Bellringer
• No SOL Challenge today
• You have 5 minutes to complete the SOL Wrap-Up on the material from last class!
• BJOTD: What did one wall say to another wall?
Genocide
• Genocide: the systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group.
• There have been many acts of genocide throughout history
Armenians• Date: 1915-1917• Location: Ottoman Empire• Leader: Leaders of the
Ottoman Empire• Victims: Armenians,
Assyrians, and Greeks• Type of Genocide: Ethnic
• Total Deaths: Between 1 and 1.5 million
Armenian Methods
• Mass burning• Suffocation• Use of poison• Deportation
The Great Purge• Date: 1936-1938• Location: the Soviet Union• Leader: Joseph Stalin• Victims: government officials,
Communist party members, peasants
• Type of Genocide: Cultural
• There is a person - there is a problem, there is no person - there is no problem.—Joseph Stalin
Holocaust
• Date: 1938-1945• Location: Europe• Leader: Adolph Hitler• Victims: primarily Jews but also gypsies, Poles,
Soviets, and political opponents• Type of Genocide: Ethnic
• Total Deaths: 6 million Jews, 10 million peoples total
What led to the Holocaust?
• Totalitarianism combined with nationalism• History of anti-Semitism• Defeat in World War I and economic
depression blamed on German Jews• Hitler’s belief in the master race
The Final Solution
• Hitler’s plan, decided during the Wannsee Conference, to systematically exterminate the Jewish race and other unmentionables in Germany
1942: the Wannsee Conference
Step 1: Ghettos
A Typical Boxcar
• 100 people would be loaded into one freight car
• Jews had to pay their own way
Step 3: Selections and Camp
Step 4: Camp Life and the Gas Chambers
Cambodia
• Date: 1975-1979• Location: Cambodia• Leader: Pol Pot • Victims: the educated, artists, government
officials, monks, and minorities• Type of Genocide: Cultural
• Total Deaths: 1.7 million people (~20% of the population)
Rwanda
• Date: 1994• Location: Rwanda• Leader: the Hutu majority• Victims: the Tutsi minority• Type of Genocide: Ethnic
• Over the course of 100 days, over 800,000 people were killed
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