Genocide

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Genocide

• Key Terms

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Defining Genocide

• International Community
• General term used to describe the interaction of
  states and how they cooperate together and
  resolve issues between them
• State Sovereignty
• Absolute authority of the state to govern itself
  free of outside interference
• Genocide convention
• This treaty made genocide a crime. All signers
  were to prevent, suppress, and punish genocide

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Defining Genocide Continued

• Nationalism
• Devotion to ones nation
• International Criminal Court
• the first permanent, treaty based, international
  criminal court established to help end impunity
  for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes
  of concern to the international community.

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Armenia Terms

• Young Turks
• Gained power of the Ottoman Empire in 1908.
  Wanted to create a nation that was all Turkish
• Armenians
• Christian Minority in the Ottoman Empire

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Holocaust Terms

• Nazi
• Political party in power in Germany during WWII.
  Led by Hitler
• Anti-Semitism
• Hatred or discrimination against the Jewish
  community
• Final Solution
• Plan by the Nazis to annihilate European Jews
  and all other undesirables

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Cambodia Terms

• Khmer Rouge
• Communist party that took power in Cambodia after
  a 5 year civil war. Pol Pot was the leader.
• Auto-Genocide
• Genocide that is against itself rather than
  another ethnic group

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Bosnia Terms

• Serbs
• Eastern Orthodox
• Led ethnic cleansing against Muslims and Croats
• Croats
• Roman Catholic
• Ethnic cleansing
• Forcibly remove one ethnic group from an area.
• Often used instead of genocide when discussing
  Bosnia

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Rwanda Terms

• Somalia Syndrome
• Refers to when the US was in Somalia on a
  humanitarian mission. 18 American troops were
  killed and nearly a thousand Somali citizens.
• This changed Americas response to humanitarian
  crises, especially in Africa