APWH Unit 7: War Atrocities

Genocide

Systematic killing of a people

Ethnic Cleansing

Type of genocide targeting a specific ethnicity

AntiSemitism

Discrimination against the Jewish

Eugenics

Science of superior races. Genetically creating the superior person

Social Darwinism

Using Darwin's theory of evolution and apply it to race

Scientific Racism

Misuse of science to try to show power of different ethnic groups

Holocaust

Hitler's genocide program. Goes after anyone that does not benefit the state (majorly Jewish, but not only)

T4 Program

Euthanasia to the disabled because they served 'no real purpose'

Euthanasia

Killing someone (painless)

Einsatzgruppen (SS)

Secret police of Hitler

Final Solution

Plan to eradicate Europe of the Jewish people. Made by Henrich Heimler

Concentration Camp

Place where a large number of people are held. Political prison. Some turn into work camps

Extermination camps

Places to kill people

Auschwitz

Largest concentration/extermination camp under Adolf Hitler

Human Rights

Rights you have because you are a human being

Cambodian Genocide

Eradication of people in Southeast Asia. Done under Pol Pot

Pol Pot

Went after the smart people because they asked too many questions and question authority. Caused a massive stunt in economic growth in Cambodia

Khmer Rouge

Name of Cambodia under Pol Pot. Rebels that overthrew the Cambodian government

Rwandan Genocide

Central East African genocide. Tutsis (Minority put into power by Belgians) attacked by Hutus because when the Belgians left they attacked

Tutsis

Minority group in charge

Hutus

Majority group wanting revenge

Holodomor

Death by hunger. Man made hunger by Joseph Stalin. Genocide

Ukraine

Area that was victimized during Holodomor

Saddam Hussein

Modern dictator of Iraq that killed the British population through poison gas. Did genocide against Kurds

Kurds

Victims of Saddam Hussein's genocide

Bosnia

Experiences genocide after the falling of Yugoslavia. Mostly muslim and targeted by the Serbs

Serbia

Carried out Bosnian ethnic cleansing

Darfur

Ethnic cleansing in Sudan

Sudan

Where the Darfur genocide is

Rohingya

Muslim minority in Myanmar