7.8 - Mass Atrocities After 1900

Genocide

The attempted killing of a group of people based on their race, religion, or ethnicity

Armenian Genocide

Ottoman mass deportation and killing of Armenians during World War I that killed about 1.5 million

Young Turks

Ottoman nationalist leaders whose government carried out the Armenian genocide during World War I

Holocaust

Nazi Germany’s systematic murder of six million Jews and millions of other targeted groups

Final Solution

The Nazi plan to exterminate Europe’s Jewish population through deportation and mass murder

Nuremberg Trials

Postwar trials in which Allied powers prosecuted Nazi leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity

Holodomor

A famine in Soviet Ukraine caused by Stalin’s collectivization and grain seizures in 1932 to 1933

Bosnian Genocide

Ethnic cleansing and mass killing, especially of Bosniaks, during the Bosnian War in the 1990s

Rwandan Genocide

The 1994 mass slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus by extremist Hutu forces in Rwanda

Hutu-Tutsi Conflict

Ethnic tension in Rwanda that culminated in the 1994 genocide against Tutsis and moderate Hutus

Darfur Genocide

Mass killing and displacement in western Sudan beginning in 2003 involving government-backed Janjaweed militias

Cambodian Genocide

Mass death under Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979

Khmer Rouge

The communist regime in Cambodia that used forced labor, executions, and starvation to reshape society

Pol Pot

Leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime, which carried out genocide in the late 1970s