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Title: Genocide


1
Genocide
  • Key Terms

2
Defining Genocide
  • International Community
  • General term used to describe the interaction of
    states and how they cooperate together and
    resolve issues between them
  • State Sovereignty
  • Absolute authority of the state to govern itself
    free of outside interference
  • Genocide convention
  • This treaty made genocide a crime. All signers
    were to prevent, suppress, and punish genocide

3
Defining Genocide Continued
  • Nationalism
  • Devotion to ones nation
  • International Criminal Court
  • the first permanent, treaty based, international
    criminal court established to help end impunity
    for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes
    of concern to the international community.

4
Armenia Terms
  • Young Turks
  • Gained power of the Ottoman Empire in 1908.
    Wanted to create a nation that was all Turkish
  • Armenians
  • Christian Minority in the Ottoman Empire

5
Holocaust Terms
  • Nazi
  • Political party in power in Germany during WWII.
    Led by Hitler
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Hatred or discrimination against the Jewish
    community
  • Final Solution
  • Plan by the Nazis to annihilate European Jews
    and all other undesirables

6
Cambodia Terms
  • Khmer Rouge
  • Communist party that took power in Cambodia after
    a 5 year civil war. Pol Pot was the leader.
  • Auto-Genocide
  • Genocide that is against itself rather than
    another ethnic group

7
Bosnia Terms
  • Serbs
  • Eastern Orthodox
  • Led ethnic cleansing against Muslims and Croats
  • Croats
  • Roman Catholic
  • Ethnic cleansing
  • Forcibly remove one ethnic group from an area.
  • Often used instead of genocide when discussing
    Bosnia

8
Rwanda Terms
  • Somalia Syndrome
  • Refers to when the US was in Somalia on a
    humanitarian mission. 18 American troops were
    killed and nearly a thousand Somali citizens.
  • This changed Americas response to humanitarian
    crises, especially in Africa
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