TOPIC 7.8 Mass Atrocities After 1900

Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I

Armenian Genocide was the campaign of deportation and mass killings conducted against the Armenians subjects of the Ottoman Empire by the Young Turk government during World War I. Armenians charge that the campaign was a deliberate attempt to destroy the Armenian people and, thus, an act of genocide. the Turkish government refuses to fully acknowledge that it was bad.

Tutsi in Rwanda in the 1990s

Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central African nation murdered over 800,000 , mostly of the Tutsi minority.

Cambodia during the late 1970s

The Khmer Rouge was a brutal regime that ruled Cambodia, under the leadership of Marxist dictator Pol Pot, from 1975 to 1979. Pol Pot's attempts to create a Cambodian "master race" through social engineering ultimately led to the deaths of more than 2 million people in the Southeast Asian country.

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

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.

Ukraine in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s

one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from the Union's inception to its breakup. The republic was governed by the Communist Party of Ukraine as a unitary one-party socialist soviet republic.-Ukrainian SSR was transformed into the modern nation-state and renamed itself as Ukraine.