Unit 7 Vocab: Mass Atrocities

Genocide

Planned, mass destruction of one group of people

Ethnic Cleansing

Clearing out a certain ethnicity from a place

Antisemitism

Anti-jew sentiment

Eugenics

Controlled breeding of humans to limit unwanted traits

Social Darwinism

More advanced societies have responsibility to help not as advanced societies

Scientific Racism

Pseudo-Science to explain white superiority

Holocaust

Genocide of jews

T4 Program

German targeting of handicapped and disabled group

Euthanasia

Putting a living thing down

Einsatzgruppen (SS)

Nazi shock and awe troops, elite fighting force, responsible for the Holocaust

Final Solution

Plan to exterminate all European jews

Concentration Camps

Areas to hold jewish people, usually forced to work

Extermination Camps

Areas designed to kill Jewish people

Auschwitz

An extermination camp, most famous one

Human Rights

Humane treatment, result of the Holocaust

Cambodian Genocide

Attempt to return Cambodia to an agricultural society, killed anyone who tries to industrialize

Pol Pot

Cambodian dictator, leader of the Khmer Rouge

Khmer Rouge

Cambodian government, lead the Cambodian Genocide

Rwanda Geonocide

East Africa, Hutus killing Tutsis

Hutus

Majority of population in Rwanda

Tutsis

Minority population in Rwanda

Holodomor

Man made famine in Ukraine

Ukraine

A state absorbed by the USSR, forced to grow grain

Saddam Hussien

Leader of Iraq, carried out genocide of Kurds

Kurds

Middle eastern ethnic group, practices sunni Muslim

Bosnia

Eastern Europe, Muslim minority were genocided

Serbia

Eastern Europe, committed genocide against Bosnia

Darfur

Western region of Sudan, suffered from genocide resulting from battles between government and rebels, and muslims and Christians

Sudan

North African state, experienced first genocide from 21st century

Rohingya

Muslim minority in Myanmar