STANDARD WHII.11b

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STANDARD WHII.11b

• The student will demonstrate knowledge of the
  worldwide impact of World War II by
• examining the Holocaust and other examples of
  genocide in the twentieth century.

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Terms to know

• Genocide The systematic and purposeful
  destruction of a racial, political, religious, or
  cultural group

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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
• Hitlers belief in the master race
• Final solutionExtermination camps, gas chambers

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Examples of other genocides

• Armenians by leaders of the Ottoman Empire
• Peasants, government and military leaders, and
  members of the elite in the Soviet Union by
  Joseph Stalin
• The educated, artists, technicians, former
  government officials, monks, and minorities by
  Pol Pot in Cambodia
• Tutsi minority by Hutu in Rwanda
• Muslims and Croats by Bosnian Serbs in former
  Yugoslavia