The Global Conflicts of Unit 7 provide the appropriate backdrop to introduce the concept of GENOCIDE. We’ve seen mass atrocities before whether it was the Mongol expansion, diseases/Europeans killing the Native Americans, the death of 10 million Congolese under King Leopold II and many others. But, the CONTEMPORARY period is the first to see true genocides. The College Board wants you to focus on these 5: The Armenian Genocide in 1916, The Holodomor in the Ukraine in 1933, the Holocaust during WWII, the Cambodian Genocide in the 1970s, and the Rwandan Genocide in the summer of 1994.

1. GENOCIDE
2. DEATH MARCH
3. ETHNIC CLEANSING
4. HOLODOMOR
5. FAMINE

1. MASS ATROCITIES from Heimler’s History

2. ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

3. THE HOLODOMOR

4. AUSCHWITZ BY DRONE

5. POL POT & THE KHMER ROUGE

6. RWANDAN GENOCIDE

1. THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION, Anti-Semitic propaganda, 1903
2. TECHIR LAW, Resettlement of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915
3. DIZZY WITH SUCCESS, Joseph Stalin, 1930
4. THE WANSEE PROTOCOL, January 20 1942
5. RTLM HUTU RADIO TRANSCRIPT, May 9 1994

1. JOHN BULL’S DILEMMA, Louis Dalrymple, 1895

2. THE RUNNING MAN, Malevich, 1933

3. CHOEUNG EK STUPA, KILLING FIELDS, PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA, 1988

4. MEMORIAL TO THE MURDERED JEWS OF EUROPE, Berlin, 2004

5. NEVER AGAIN, ED STEIN, 2006

1. Mass atrocities are not new to the Contemporary Period (1900-Present).
2. But, the Contemporary Period saw a rise of extremist groups that targeted specific populations.
3. The College Board only mentions the Holocaust by name here.
4. But, they mention some Illustrative Examples like Armenia, Ukraine, Cambodia, and Rwanda.
5. Focus on the Holocaust, but know the basics of the others mentioned above.