1. Bellringer No SOL Challenge today You have 5 minutes to complete the SOL Wrap-Up on the material from last class! BJOTD: What did one wall say to another wall?

2. Genocide

3. Genocide: the systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group. There have been many acts of genocide throughout history

4. Armenians Date: 1915-1917 Location: Ottoman Empire Leader: Leaders of the Ottoman Empire Victims: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks Type of Genocide: Ethnic Total Deaths: Between 1 and 1.5 million

5. Armenian Methods Mass burning Suffocation Use of poison Deportation

6. The Great Purge Date: 1936-1938 Location: the Soviet Union Leader: Joseph Stalin Victims: government officials, Communist party members, peasants Type of Genocide: Cultural There is a person - there is a problem, there is no person - there is no problem.— Joseph Stalin

7. Holocaust Date: 1938-1945 Location: Europe Leader: Adolph Hitler Victims: primarily Jews but also gypsies, Poles, Soviets, and political opponents Type of Genocide: Ethnic Total Deaths: 6 million Jews, 10 million peoples total

8. What led to the Holocaust? Totalitarianism combined with nationalism History of anti-Semitism Defeat in World War I and economic depression blamed on German Jews Hitler’s belief in the master race

9. The Final Solution Hitler’s plan, decided during the Wannsee Conference, to systematically exterminate the Jewish race and other unmentionables in Germany

10. 1942: the Wannsee Conference

11. Step 1: Ghettos

12. Step 2: Trains

13. A Typical Boxcar 100 people would be loaded into one freight car Jews had to pay their own way

15. Step 3: Selections and Camp

17. Step 4: Camp Life and the Gas Chambers

18. Cambodia Date: 1975-1979 Location: Cambodia Leader: Pol Pot Victims: the educated, artists, government officials, monks, and minorities Type of Genocide: Cultural Total Deaths: 1.7 million people (~20% of the population)

20. Rwanda Date: 1994 Location: Rwanda Leader: the Hutu majority Victims: the Tutsi minority Type of Genocide: Ethnic Over the course of 100 days, over 800,000 people were killed