No SOL Challenge today You have 5 minutes to complete the SOL WrapUp on the material from last class BJOTD What did one wall say to another wall Genocide Genocide the systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial political religious or cultural group ID: 433278
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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?Slide2
GenocideSlide3
Genocide: the systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group.
There have been many acts of genocide throughout historySlide4
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 millionSlide5
Armenian Methods
Mass burning
Suffocation
Use of poison
DeportationSlide6
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 StalinSlide7
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 totalSlide8
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 raceSlide9
The Final Solution
Hitler’s plan, decided during the
Wannsee
Conference, to systematically exterminate the Jewish race and other unmentionables in GermanySlide10
1942: the Wannsee
ConferenceSlide11
Step 1: GhettosSlide12
Step 2: TrainsSlide13
A Typical Boxcar
100 people would be loaded into one freight car
Jews had to pay their own waySlide14Slide15
Step 3: Selections and CampSlide16Slide17
Step 4: Camp Life and the Gas ChambersSlide18
Cambodia
Date: 1975-1979
Location: Cambodia
Leader:
Pol
Pot
Victims: the educated, artists, government officials, monks, and minorities
Type of Genocide: CulturalTotal Deaths: 1.7 million people (~20% of the population)Slide19Slide20
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 killedSlide21Slide22Slide23