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1
Study Guide
  • Genocide
  • Graphic organizer

2
Armenia
  • Events leading to genocide
  • Ethnic tensions between Turks and Armenians
  • Turks took power of Ottoman Empire
  • Nationalism grew to have a Turkish state

3
Armenia
  • Events of Genocide
  • All Armenians were given 3 days to pack up and
    move from Ottoman Empire
  • Turks forced Armenians on a march to the Syrian
    desert
  • Denied food and water on the march
  • Others were murdered as well

4
Armenia
  • U.S. response
  • President Wilson said it was a civil war
  • Wanted to stay out of WWI, so he claimed
    neutrality
  • Most Americans agreed

5
Armenia
  • International Community Response
  • Condemned the Young Turks and said they would be
    held responsible
  • No countries took action because they were
    preoccupied with WWI
  • There were some efforts to raise money but not
    enough

6
Holocaust
  • Events leading to Genocide
  • Depression in Germany due to Treaty of Versailles
  • German Nationalism increased
  • Blaming of Jews for the problems in Germany

7
Holocaust
  • Events of Genocide
  • Kristallnacht
  • Sent Jews to ghettos for confinement
  • Concentration camp- slave labor
  • Einzatsgruppen
  • Extermination camps with gas chambers
  • Death marches

8
Holocaust
  • U.S. response
  • Ignored early signs
  • Allowed some Jews to immigrate to U.S.
  • Wanted to stay neutral from the War but
    eventually involved in the war effort after Pearl
    Harbor

9
Holocaust
  • International Community Response
  • Most people were too involved with the war effort
    to do anything
  • Following WWII
  • Displaced persons camps were set up for survivors
  • Created the state of Israel
  • Genocide convention to prevent further incidents
  • Nuremberg Trials were held and many defendants
    were sentenced to prison or death

10
Cambodia
  • Events leading to genocide
  • Prince Sihanouk was overthrown and Khmer Rouge
    took power
  • Khmer Rouge wanted to create a classless society
  • Citizens of cities were forced to the countryside
    to create an agrarian utopia

11
Cambodia
  • Events of Genocide
  • Execution, starvation, disease, overworked
  • Forced labor of working long days and little work
  • Soldiers, civil servants, elders, intellectuals
    were killed

12
Cambodia
  • U.S. Response
  • Involvement in Vietnam war led to rise of Pol Pot
  • Placed economic embargos against Cambodia
  • Focused on Cold War

13
Cambodia
  • International community response
  • Little effort to stop the killing
  • Some people smuggled Cambodians to safe areas

14
Bosnia
  • Events leading to Genocide
  • Ethnic tensions between Serbs, Muslims, Croats
  • Many died in massacres in early 1900s
  • Marshal Tito in power and has stable government
  • Yugoslavia divided into ethnic states
  • Serbian nationalism rose when Milosevic came to
    power

15
Bosnia
  • Events of Genocide
  • Serbs wanted to remove Muslim and Croats from
    Bosnia
  • Used torture, gang rape, concentration camps, and
    massacres

16
Bosnia
  • U.S. response
  • With NATO launched a bombing campaign against
    Serbian army
  • Helped them to sign Dayton peace agreement
  • Kept UN peacekeepers in Bosnia through 1999

17
Bosnia
  • International community response
  • Denied genocide was happening but set up 6 safe
    zones
  • Used troops and prohibited Serbian forces to fly
    over
  • Ineffective at stopping genocide
  • Serbs eventually took over the areas because UN
    forces left
  • Milosevic was tried for crimes against humanity

18
Rwanda
  • Events leading to Genocide
  • Tensions between the Hutus and Tutsis
  • Tutsi had most of power but were smaller of
    population
  • Received privileges from Belgium
  • Civil war in 1959
  • Hutu president in Burudi was killed
  • Rwanda president and 2nd Burundi president were
    killed
  • More massacres took place

19
Rwanda
  • Events of Genocide
  • Interhamwe(Hutu) attacked Tutsi with machetes and
    clubs
  • Radio announcements were made to say that all
    Tutsi needed to be killed
  • Attacked at churches, schools, etc

20
Rwanda
  • U.S. response
  • Disregarded warnings
  • Refused to define as genocide
  • Did this so they did not have to intervene

21
Rwanda
  • International Response
  • Condemned violence
  • Refused to intervene
  • Called ancient ethnic hatred
  • UN peacekeepers were sent to Rwanda after
    massacres ended
  • Stayed until 1996
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