1. Never Again... Genocide in the 20 th Century WHII.11b

2. Warm-up Read through pages 451-454 Define the following terms as you read: –Aryans –Holocaust –Kristallnacht –Ghettos –“Final Solution”

3. The Holocaust & other Genocides in the 20 th Century

4. Genocide: The systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group.

6. Why did the Holocaust occur? Totalitarianism combined with nationalism History of anti-Semitism Defeat in WWI and economic depression blamed on German Jews

7. Why did the Holocaust occur? Hitler’s belief in the master race Final solution—Extermination camps, gas chambers

9. Armenian Genocide

10. Armenians by leaders of the Ottoman Empire

11. Stalin’s Purges in the USSR Peasants, government and military leaders, and members of the elite in the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin

13. Genocide in Cambodia The educated, artists, technicians, former government officials, monks, and minorities by Pol Pot in Cambodia.

15. Genocide in Rwanda Tutsi minority by Hutu in Rwanda

18. Genocide in Bosnia Muslims and Croats by Bosnian Serbs in former Yugoslavia