Mass Atrocities

Genocide

Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group

Ethnic cleansing

the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society.

Anti Semitism

Prejudice against Jews

Eugenics

the science of 'improving' a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics

Social Darwinism

The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.

Scientific Racism

the use of scientific theories to support or validate racist attitudes or worldviews; also, to support classification of human beings into distinct biological races

Holocaust

A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled.

T4 Program

Nazi German effort—framed as a euthanasia program—to kill incurably ill, physically or mentally disabled, emotionally distraught

Euthenasia

mercy killing

Einsatzgruppen

Nazi strike forces that killed innocent Jews

Final Solution

Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people

Concentration Camps

prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.

Extermination Camps

Camps attached to concentration camps used to execute people in massive gas chambers

Auschwitz

Nazi extermination camp in Poland, the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust.

Human Rights

the basic rights to which all people are entitled as human beings

Cambodian Genocide

The four-year period saw the deaths of approximately two million Cambodians through the combined result of political executions, starvation, and forced labour by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge.

Rwandan Genocide

The killing of more than 500,000 ethnic Tutsis by rival Hutu militias in Rwanda in 1994

Tutsis/Hutus

two ethnic groups living in Rwanda that participated in genocide against one another during fight for political control

Holodomor

a man-made famine-genocide in which the USSR starved the people of Ukraine; killed millions

Ukraine

country in Eastern Europe

Saddam Hussien

Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran; his invasion of Kuwait led to the Gulf War

Kurds

Ethnic group that lives in parts of Iraq and Turkey.

Bosnia and Serbia

Bosnia housed the Black Hand, a Serbian killed the Archduke, and Serbia was supported by Russia, starting WW1.

Darfur

a region in western Sudan where ethnic conflict threatened to lead to genocide

Sudan

From the Arabic term for "land of black people," a large region of West Africa

Rohingya

a member of a Muslim people inhabiting western Burma (Myanmar)