| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Korean War Years | 1950-1953 |
| June 25, 1950 | North Korea invades South Korea |
| October 1950 | Chinese enter Korean War |
| Armistice 38th Parallel | Boarder dividing North and South Korea at the end of the Korean War |
| June 30, 1950 | President Truman commits US troops to enforce UN demand |
| Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese Nationalist who made alliances with communist China to fight the French |
| UN Agreed Definition of Genocide | Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group: A. killing members of the group; B. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; C. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in the whole or in part; D. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; E. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group; |
| The Herero Genocide | 1904-1907 Hereros attacked German farmers, German troops implemented policy to destroy all Hereros |
| The Ukrainian Genocide/The Famine | 1933--Millions of Ukrainians died of starvation |
| Talaat Pasha | leader of Ottoman Turks |
| Ottoman Empire Genocide | 1915-1918 Ottoman Turkey when they targeted Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontic Greeks. Many vitims were tortured and killed on a death march through the Ottoman empire into the Syrian desert. |
| Adolf Hitler | Leader of Nazi Germany |
| "final solution" | Nazi plan of annihilation of European Jews, Roma/Sinti, homosexuals, Poles, and others not of the "Aryan" race |
| Pol Pot | Leader of the Khmer Rouge Political Party |
| Cambodian Genocide | 1975-1979 attempt to form Communist peasant farming society resulted in deaths by starvation, overwork, and executions. |
| Slobodan Milosevic | Leader of the Serbs |
| "ethnic cleansing" | reason Serbs targeted the Bosnian Muslims in 1992-1995 |
| Rwanda Genocide | 1994 Ethnic Hutu Militias took advantage of Rwanda's political turmoil and began killing Tutsi civilians |
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