Mass Atrocities After 1900
Caleb Thomas
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#🌍 Mass Atrocities: A Dark Chapter in Modern History 🌍
Key Concept
Mass atrocities, including genocides and ethnic violence, are a recurring theme in modern history, often fueled by ideologies of racial and social hierarchy. These events are crucial to understand as they highlight the dangers of unchecked power and discrimination.
#🔗 Holocaust
#🔗 Other Mass Atrocities
# ✡️ The Holocaust: A Systematic Genocide ✡️
The Holocaust is a critical topic for the AP exam, often appearing in both multiple-choice and free-response questions. Understanding its causes, progression, and impact is essential.
- Worst Outbreak of Anti-Semitism: The Holocaust resulted in the systematic murder of approximately 6 million Jews.
- Timeline: Started in 1933 with the rise of the Nazi party in Germany.
- Discriminatory Laws: Jews were stripped of rights and property, forced into ghettos, and faced discrimination in schools and workplaces.
- Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass): A violent pogrom where Jewish homes and businesses were destroyed.
- "Final Solution" (1941): The Nazi plan to exterminate all Jews.
- Concentration Camps: Jews and other minorities were rounded up and sent to camps like Auschwitz, where they were overworked, starved, and murdered in gas chambers.
- Forced Displacement: Millions were forcibly expelled from their homes and relocated to concentration camps.
- Allied Discovery: As Allies advanced, they discovered the horrors of the concentration camps.
#Nuremberg Trials
- Purpose: Military tribunals held in Nuremberg to prosecute Nazi leaders for war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity.
- Focus: The Holocaust was a central focus, highlighting the...
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