1. WHII:SOL 12 b The Holocaust/Genocides

2. Terms to know genocide: The systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group

3. Elements leading 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 Final solution: Extermination camps, gas chambers

9. Victims Killed Jews5.9 million Soviet POWs2–3 million Ethnic Poles1.8–2 million Romani220,000–1,500,000 Disabled200,000–250,000 Freemasons80,000–200,000 Slovenes20,000–25,000 Homosexuals5,000–15,000 Jehovah's Witnesses 2,500–5,000 Spanish Republicans7000

10. Other examples of genocide Armenians by leaders of the Ottoman Empire Eastern Orthodox Christians were targeted as a minority group Forced on death marches to the Syrian Desert Over 500,000 Armenians died between 1914 and 1918

12. Great Purge Peasants, government and military leaders, and members of the elite in the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin 681,692 were shot and killed

14. Cambodia Artists, technicians, former government officials, monks, minorities, and other educated individuals by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge government in Cambodia One and a half to three million people were killed

16. Rwanda Tutsi minority by Hutu in Rwanda 100 day period 500,000 to 1 million people were killed