AP World History 7.8 Flashcards

Armistice Day

Commemoration of the end of World War I, marked on November 11, 1918.

Genocide

Intentional destruction of a racial, ethnic, or national group.

Holocaust

Genocidal event in which six million Jews were killed by the Nazis.

Asia for Asiatics

Japanese imperial policy aiming to exploit conquered Asian territories.

Ethnic cleansing

Systematic removal or extermination of an ethnic group from a territory.

Nuremberg Laws

Laws that institutionalized racial discrimination against Jews in Nazi Germany.

Janjaweed

Militant group involved in the Darfur genocide in Sudan.

International Criminal Court

Judicial body established to prosecute individuals for genocide and war crimes.

Armenians

Ethnic group targeted during the Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Empire.

Tutsis

Minority ethnic group in Rwanda, targeted during the 1994 genocide.

Hutus

Majority ethnic group in Rwanda, involved in the genocide against Tutsis.

Heinrich Himmler

Nazi leader responsible for implementing the Holocaust and Auschwitz.

Slobodan Milošević

Serbian leader associated with the genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Balkan conflicts.

Omar al-Bashir

Sudanese president charged with war crimes related to the Darfur genocide.

Dresden

German city heavily bombed, known for significant destruction and loss of life.

Tokyo

Japanese city targeted by Allied firebombing during World War II