The Rwandan Genocide
What 2 groups were involved in the Rwanda Genocide?
Who were the Hutu and Tutsi?
What were the members of the communist political group during the Cambodian Genocide called?
Who were the Khmer Rouge?
Why did the Armenia Genocide end in 1918?
It was the end of WWI and the Ottoman Empire lost
What group were responsible for the Holocaust?
Who were the nazis?
What is Genocide?
What is the mass murder of a specific population
Which European power controlled Rwanda before its independence?
Belgium
What year did the Khmer Rouge take power?
1975
Name a main cause of the Armenia Genocide?
The growing Turkish nationalism due to the decline of the Ottoman Empire
What was the largest concentration camp during the Holocaust?
What is Auschwitz?
What are UN peacekeepers?
Military/police under the United Nations to maintain peace and security in areas of conflict
This group controlled the government at the beginning of the Rwanda Genocide
Who were the Hutus?
He led the Khmer Rouge
Who was pol pot
Name 3 reasons why so many Armenians died during the Genocide
1) Lack of food/water
2) Diseases
3) Execution occurring in the concentration camps
What was the main idea of hatred toward Jews called during the Holocaust?
What is anti-semitism?
This idea justified social inequalities, racism, and imperialism by claiming that certain groups were biologically superior to others.
What is Social Darwinism?
How did the Rwanda Genocide end?
The RPF slowly took back parts of the country and pushed out the extreme Hutu government
Why did The Cambodian Genocide target intellectual people?
Goal was to create a majority rural peasant population
What were the Hamidian massacres? (1894-1896)
Prior killing of Armenians before the Armenia Genocide
What year was Hitler given the role "chancellor of Germany"?
1933
What does RPF stand for?
Rwandan Patriotic Front
What was the last straw that started the Rwanda Genocide?
When Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane was shot down
What ethnic group did the Cambodian Genocide impact the most?
Cham Muslims
Why is April 24 1915 considered the official start day of the Armenia Geocide?
It was the day when Turkish authorities arrested 250 Armenian intellectuals for suspected plotting against the Ottoman Empire
Forced evacuations of concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of World War II were called what?
What are death marches?
Who were the Three Pashas?
Three senior officials that were crucial in operating the Armenia Genocide