| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Holocaust | During World War II, the Nazis imprisoned and killed approximately 6 million Jews. |
| genocide | systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group |
| Final Solution | another name for the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews |
| Nuremberg Trials | Nazi leaders were prosecuted in court for their part in the Holocaust |
| Aryan | Germans believed they were part of this superior race: |
| extermination camps | Auschwitz, Dachau, Krakow, & Treblinka were a few of the many __ established by the Nazis. |
| Ottoman Empire | Turks massacred Armenians, an ethnic minority group made up of largely well-educated and wealthy people. |
| Soviet Union | Joseph Stalin ordered the deaths of peasants, government and military leaders, and members of the elite. |
| Rwanda | Hutu massacred Tutsi minority |
| Cambodia | Pol Pot ordered the deaths of educated artists, technicians, former government officials, monks, and minorities. |
| Former Yugoslavia | Bosnian Serbs killed Muslims and Croats. Slobodan Milosevic, former Yugoslav president, was charged with organizing the genocide. |
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