Never Again... Genocide in the 20 th Century WHII.11b
Warm-up Read through pages Define the following terms as you read: –Aryans –Holocaust –Kristallnacht –Ghettos –“Final Solution”
The Holocaust & other Genocides in the 20 th Century
Genocide: The systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group.
Why did the Holocaust occur? Totalitarianism combined with nationalism History of anti-Semitism Defeat in WWI and economic depression blamed on German Jews
Why did the Holocaust occur? Hitler’s belief in the master race Final solution—Extermination camps, gas chambers
Armenian Genocide
Armenians by leaders of the Ottoman Empire
Stalin’s Purges in the USSR Peasants, government and military leaders, and members of the elite in the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin
Genocide in Cambodia The educated, artists, technicians, former government officials, monks, and minorities by Pol Pot in Cambodia.
Genocide in Rwanda Tutsi minority by Hutu in Rwanda
Genocide in Bosnia Muslims and Croats by Bosnian Serbs in former Yugoslavia