Unit 7.8 - Genocides
"No jokes here."
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Reasons
- Many Nations sought to protect themselves
- Eliminating Group Related to problem = No more problem In practice this painted all of them in a bad light and lead to more dire consequences later on (government collapse, major guilt even to modern day)
- Authoritarian ideologies such as Fascism & Communism allowed this
Technology
Not all technology developed for war was used at the front lines
- Gas used in WW1 also used in concentration camps
- Bombings killed civilians at home
- Warfare from the front lines making it deep into core territory
- Sometimes completely capitulating or collapsing a country
Specific Genocides
The holocaust
- Germany discriminating against Jews
- Sent to ghettos at first
- Later to concentration camps to fuel the war effort and execute them
Armenian Genocide
- Most controversial of modern world as turkey is our ally
- Caused by Ottoman Empire due to fear of Armenians
- Armenians were christian
- Turks are Muslim
- Resulting in around 1 million deaths
Cambodian Genocide
- Lead by Khmer Rouge, Communists in Cambodia
- Was done in an attempt at rapid industrialization
- Targeted those with western education.
The Holodomor
- Ukrainian famine in the USSR
- Caused due to new policies introduced by Stalin
- Food allocated to feed industrial centers
- USSR still exported to show policies were working
- Left none for farmers and let them starve
- Many could not leave as they would be shot