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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
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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
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
Ghettos • After Kristallnacht, many Jews emigrated • Hitler knew he couldn’t get rid of all Jews through emigration • Sent Jews to ghettos – segregated Jewish areas • Sealed off with barbed wire and stone walls
A Typical Boxcar • 100 people would be loaded into one freight car • Jews had to pay their own way
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