Rwanda
Cambodia
Armenia
Genocide Vocab
Potpourri
100

Majority group that are the main perpetrators during the genocide.

Who are the Hutus

100
Communist leader of the genocide.

Who is Pol Pot

100

Religion that was adopted by Armenia as its offical state religion.

What is Christianity?

100

Systemic killing of a targeted group of people

What is genocide

100

This card in a deck of cards is also known as the suicide king.

What is the King of Hearts

200

Colonizing country that gives Rwanda their independence

What is Belgium

200

Communist group that carries out the genocide for the main leader.

What is Khmer Rougue

200

Sultan that initiated the first state-sponsored massacres in 1894-1896.

Who is Abdul Hamid II
200

Person responsible for a crime

What is a perpetrator

200

The first car brand ever manufactured in the world

What is Mercedes-Benz

300

Man that works at the Mille Collines and helps Rwandan people seek refuge from the genocide.

Who is Paul Rusesabagina

300

Where many Cambodians are sent to die from reeducation

What are the killing fields

300

Group that overthrew the Sultan and promised equal rights.

Who are the Young Turks

300
Person or people present but not taking part; witness removed from a situation

What is a bystander

300

The capital city of Texas

What is Austin

400

Peacekeeping group that fails to assist Rwandan victims

What is the United Nations

400

US President during in 1970 during the Cambodian genocide

Who is Richard Nixon

400

Extreme nationalist movement summarized by the phrase T"urkey for Turks"

What is Pan-Turkism

400

Person who assists the enemy

What is a collaborator

400

All time leader in goals in NHL history

Who is Alex Ovechkin

500

Hutu militia responsible for carrying out most of the slaughter in Rwanda.

What is the Interhawme

500

Approximately this many people of Cambodia’s population died during the genocide.

What is rougly 1.7-2 million people

500

Law passed by the Turkish government in 2004 that makes it illegal to discuss the Armenian genocide.

What is Article 305

500

Laws that strip Jews of their citizenship, banning marriages or sexual relations between Germans and Jews, and legally defining Jewish identity by ancestry rather than religious practice

What are Nuremberg Laws

500

Where does the biggest horse race of the year take place each year.

Kentucky (derby)