7.8 Mass Atrocities Flashcards
What was Armistice Day?
November 11, 1918 is the day when Germany surrendered to the Allies in World War I.
What was the Ottoman Empire’s justification of the Armenian Genocide?
Armenian Christians were supposedly cooperating with the Russian Army, an enemy of the Ottoman Empire during WWI.
Why was the Armenian Genocide called the 20th century’s first genocide?
It was a mass killing of people based on their race, religion or ethnicity.
What continued to cause deaths across the world after WWI ended?
An influenza epidemic.
The term Lost Generation was used to describe what?
People suffering from the shock of World War I.
How many peasants died as the result of famine as the result of Stalin’s collectivization of agriculture?
7 to 10 million peasants starved to death.
What did Heinrich Himmler oversee in the Nazi government?
The SS or Nazi secret police.
What were ghettos?
Portions of German cities where Jews were forced to live.
What was the “Final Solution”?
A campaign let by the Nazi SS to exterminate all Jews in Europe.
How many Jews were killed in the Holocaust?
About six million
What was the “Asia for Asiatics” program?
Japans policy of forcing peoples it had conquered into forced labor programs. This included military service, public works projectrs, and prostitution forced on Chinese, Korean and other Asian women.
What particularly deadly form of bombing was carried out by the Allies in Hamburg, Dresden and Tokyo?
firebombing
After the atrocities of World War II, the global community said attempted genocides could never happen again. Were they right?
NO.
Yugoslavia was created by the Allies after World War I. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Yugoslavia collapsed with it. What happened next?
The area became “Balkanized” - forming indpendent countries that defined citizenship based on ethnic background and religion.
Serbia, one of the new Balkan countries formed after the collapse of Yugoslavia, was led by Slobodan Milosevicc, a dictator with an obsession about “ethnic purity”. Who did Milosevicc and Serbian Nationalist want dead or driven out of their homes?
Muslims from Bosnia and Kosovo and essentially anyone who was not ethnically Serbian.