Unit 7.8 Mass Atrocities After 1900 (Continued)

What

Unit 7.8 Mass Atrocities After 1900 (Continued)

When

2/26/2024

Assignment due

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Standards Addressed


LEARNING OBJECTIVE
Explain the various causes and consequences of mass atrocities in the period from 1900 to the present.

claim: KC-6.2.III.C The rise of extremist groups in power led to the attempted destruction of specific populations, notably the Nazi killing of the Jews in the Holocaust during World War II, and to other atrocities, acts of genocide, or ethnic violence.

ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES
Genocide, ethnic violence, or attempted destruction of specific populations:
§ Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I
§ Cambodia during the late 1970s
§ Tutsi in Rwanda in the 1990s
§ Ukraine in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s