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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?
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Genocide
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Genocide: the systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group. There have been many acts of genocide throughout history
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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
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Armenian Methods Mass burning Suffocation Use of poison Deportation
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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
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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
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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
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The Final Solution Hitler’s plan, decided during the Wannsee Conference, to systematically exterminate the Jewish race and other unmentionables in Germany
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1942: the Wannsee Conference
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Step 1: Ghettos
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Step 2: Trains
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A Typical Boxcar 100 people would be loaded into one freight car Jews had to pay their own way
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Step 3: Selections and Camp
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Step 4: Camp Life and the Gas Chambers
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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)
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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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