7.8 - Mass Atrocities

Question 1

Armistice Day

Answer 1

Nov 11, 1918; marks the end of WWI fighting

Question 2

Hamburg

Answer 2

German city devastated by Allied firebombing in WWII

Question 3

Dresden

Answer 3

Germany city destroyed by Allied firebombing in WWII, causing massive civilian causalities

Question 4

Tokyo

Answer 4

Japanese capital, heavily firebombed by the US in WWII

Question 5

Genocide

Answer 5

systematic extermination of an ethnic or national group (e.g. Holocaust, Rwanda)

Question 6

Final Solution

Answer 6

Nazi plan for the complete extermination of Jews during the Holocaust

Question 7

Holocaust

Answer 7

the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews and millions of others during WWII

Question 8

Asia for Asiatics

Answer 8

Japanese slogan used to justify their imperial expansion and occupation of Asia during WWII

Question 9

Ethnic Cleansing

Answer 9

forcible removal or killing of ethnic groups from a territory (e.g. Bosnia, Rwanda)

Question 10

Balkanization

Answer 10

the fragmentation of a region into smaller, often hostile states (e.g. breakup of Yugoslavia)

Question 11

International Criminal Court

Answer 11

global court to prosecute crimes like genocide and crimes against humanity

Question 12

Bosnia

Answer 12

site of 1990s ethnic cleansing and genocide after Yugoslavia’s breakup

Question 13

Rwanda

Answer 13

country where the 1994 genocide occurred; Tutsis were targeted by Hutu extremists

Question 14

Heinrich Himmler

Answer 14

top Nazi official who oversaw the Holocaust and SS

Question 15

Darfur

Answer 15

region in Sudan where genocide and ethnic cleansing occurred in the 2000s

Question 16

Slobodan Milosevic

Answer 16

Serbian leader responsible for war crimes and genocide in Bosnia

Question 17

Omar al-Bashir

Answer 17

Sudanese president held responsible for genocide in Darfur

Question 18

Lost Generation

Answer 18

disillusioned post-WWI writers and artists reacting to the trauma of war

Question 19

Armenians

Answer 19

ethnic group targeted during the 1915 to 1917 Ottoman genocide

Question 20

Tutsis

Answer 20

minority group targeted in the 1994 Rwandan genocide

Question 21

Hutus

Answer 21

majority group that perpetrated the Rwandan genocide

Question 22

Firebombing

Answer 22

use of incendiary bombs to destroy cities (e.g. Dresden, Tokyo) during WWII

Question 23

Influenza Epidemic

Answer 23

the 1918 to 1919 Spanish Flu pandemic that killed millions worldwide

Question 24

Pandemic

Answer 24

a global outbreak of disease

Question 25

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 25

1935 Nazi laws stripping German Jews of rights and citizenship

Question 26

Ghettos

Answer 26

segregated urban areas where Jews were forced to live under Nazi rule

Question 27

Janjaweed

Answer 27

militia group responsible for atrocities and ethnic cleansing in Darfur