Mass Atrocities and Genocides

causes of mass atrocities

• two world wars that made 120 million lose their lives

• new tech

  • aerial warfare

  • atomic bombs

  • firebombing

• rise of extremist political ideologies

armenian genocide

• ottoman empire wanted ot refine their empire

• they believed that armenians were against them

• program of mass extermination of armenians and forced migration

holocaust

• he wanted to create a purified german race

• exterminated groups not fitting this

• final solution

• jewish most targeted

• nuremberg laws forced jews into ghettos and dehumanized them

• concentration camps and extermination camps

• auschwitz

cambodian genocide

• khmer rouge took power under pol pot

• communist

• wanted to erase industrial cambodia and make completely agrarian

• removal of western ideas

• not as racially motivated but still killed quarter of cambodians