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Who created the term Genocide and when?

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Professor Raphael Lemkin in 1944

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The Herero and Nama Genocide

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Early 1900’s, took place in Namibia

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Namibia was originally called

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German South West Africa

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In ____________ Herero chief _____________ and Nama chief ______________

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1904
Samuel Maharero
Hendrik Witbooi

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Leader of German military

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General Lothar van Trotha

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In _______: _____ Herero & ____ Nama killed

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1908
80%
50%

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7
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The Cambodian Genocide

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Between 1975 - 1979

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Communist group ___________________ led by _______________ took over the country

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Khmer Rouge
Pol Pot

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1979

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Vietnamese army invaded Cambodia overthrowing Khmer Rouge and ending their brutal regime

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10
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Rwandan Genocide

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In 1994

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11
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800 000 people mostly Tutsi’s were brutally killed in just ________ days

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100

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12
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Rwanda was colonised by

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Belgians

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Rwanda inhabited by

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Hutu and Tutsi

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Belgians favoured the ____________ which led to _____________

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Tutsi’s
Ethnic tension

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15
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Nazi targeted groups and badge on clothes:

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Jews: yellow star (star of David)
Gypsies: purple star
Homosexual: pink triangle

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16
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Nazi’s regarded Jews and other targeted groups as

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Untermensch or subhuman

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17
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Other groups targeted for racial and other reasons

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  • Slavs
  • Romani/Sinti/‘Gypsies”
  • Baltic people
  • People with disabilities
  • Gay men
  • Political and religious opponents
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18
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Death camps were built to

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Ensure mass murders were carried out

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19
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In Judaism the Holocaust is referred to as ___________ which means _______________ in __________

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Shoah
“Calamity”
Hebrew

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20
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Hitler believed that Germans were members of a superior group called “__________” race or ________

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Aryan
Herrenvolk

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21
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Jewish population of less than 1% of Germany

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Census of 1933

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22
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Who influenced Hitler’s racial ideas

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Austrian politicians:
- Georg Ritter Von Schönerer = German nationalist
- Karl Lueger = Vienna Mayor

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Public servants who were considered non-Aryan were dismissed from jobs

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7 April 1933: banned from practicing the law and barred from being doctors or other professions

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24
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Hitler released the Nuremburg Laws

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September 1935

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The Nuremburg law banned/restricted Jews from

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  • Joining the army
  • Marrying Germans = Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour & existing ‘mixed’ marriages were dissolved
  • Stripped Jews of their citizenship, subjects not citizens = Reich Citizenship Law
  • No right to vote
  • Could not be appointed to any office state
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26
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Jews were forced to sell their businesses

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Towards the end of 1937

27
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Jews banned from owning certain things and going to school

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1938

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Nazis claimed that Jews were a race defined by

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Birth and by blood

29
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Nazis looked to

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Family genealogy to define race

30
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Segregation of Jews began in

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1935

31
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Isolation of Jews including actions such as

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  • Signs outside towns
  • Passports stamped with large J
  • Jews forced to use obvious Jewish names
  • Jews prohibited from attending/using public facilities
32
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Jews were deported to Poland

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1938

33
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Kristillnacht

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9-10 November 1938

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Early November

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Von Ruth a German diplomat in Paris assassinated by a Jew

35
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Nazi used this as an

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Excuse to unleash a mob attack on Jews in Germany - pogram

36
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_______ Jewish synagogues set alight and over _______ Jewish shops destroyed

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119
800

37
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Reason for the name Kristallnacht

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Many shop windows were smashed

38
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Kristallnacht or

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Night of the broken glass

39
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1939

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Hitler told the Reichstag that if war came it could mean ‘the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe’

40
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WW2 broke out on ________________ when _____________

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September 1939
Nazi invaded Poland

41
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Nazi’s dominated most of Europe

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By 1941

42
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Ghettos originated from the name

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Of the Jewish quarter in Venice, Italy established in 1516

43
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What did the Nazis do while the Ghettos took place?

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Nazi leadership in Berlin deliberated upon options to realise the goal of removing the Jewish population

44
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Jews only got what food in the Ghettos?

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Bowl of soup a day
Loaf of bread a week

45
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Living conditions of the Ghettos

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  • Very crowded
  • Sicknesses like tuberculosis and dysentery
  • Lack of medicine
46
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Established first Ghetto in

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Poland on October 1939

47
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Largest Ghetto in Poland

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Warsaw Ghetto

48
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If Jews were too old/sick they would be

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Shipped to labour camps where they would work until they died

49
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Nazi appointed __________________ or __________________ to __________________________________

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Jewish councils
Judenrete
Administer daily life in the Ghettos

50
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Final Solution

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Beginning in late 1941

51
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Final Solution goal

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To murder all European Jews

52
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Forms of unarmed defiance

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  • Organised attempts at escaping from the ghettos into nearby forests
  • Illegal smuggling of food, medicine, weapons/intelligence into the ghettos
  • Spiritual resistance
53
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Examples of Spiritual resistance

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  • Cultural and educational activities
  • Secret religious meetings
54
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Secret underground library

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Częstochowa, Poland serviced 1000 readers

55
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German authorities did not always forbid

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Cultural activities

56
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Forms of cultural activities

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  • Concerts
  • Lectures
  • Theatrical productions
  • Cabarets
  • Art contests
57
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At ____________ in _________, ________ Jewish ____________ groups existed

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Warsaw
1940
600
Prayer

58
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Prayers helped with

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  • Sustaining morale
  • Reaffirmed a cultural and religious identity
  • Supplied spiritual comfort
59
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Many _______________ Jews viewed prayers and religious as the _______________________________

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Orthodox /traditional
Truest form of resistance

60
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Largest uprising of all

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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

61
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Between 1941 - 1943

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Underground resistance movements developed in approx. 100 ghettos

62
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Underground resistance movements happened especially in

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  • Poland
  • Lithuania
  • Belorussia
  • Ukraine
63
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First years of persecution

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1933, Hitler gave the first order to boycott all Jewish shops and businesses (SA soldiers protested in the streets)

64
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Kristallnacht was a

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Turning point in Germany

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