Genocide

1) Genocide Chart of the 20th Century

 * || ==== Causes ==== || ==== Execution ==== || ==== Outcomes ==== ||
 * === Armenian Genocide === || * The Armenians existed in a Turkish state, and their were ethnic divisions between the two groups


 * By the 19th century as the Ottoman empire weakened, the Armenians wanted representation in the government for equality


 * · Armenian demonstration led to tensions between the Turks and Armenian people


 * Government ordered mass murder of the Armenians to lessen there expectation for protection and representation by the government


 * Started when the Turkish government reformed in 1908, with the Committee of Union and Progress came to power over the sultan


 * With the high sense of nationalism produced from World war 1, the Armenians were seen as the only road block for the Turks, and they had to be dealt with || * Armenians were originally rounded up in Constantinople on April 24th, 1915


 * The groups of Armenians who were rounded up were arrested and deported, than executed


 * Many Armenians thought they were being sent to relocation camps in the Syrian deserts, but these were simple death marches as they were denied food and necesisties. They also were attacked my Turkish people.


 * To gain support and grounds Turks spreads rumors of a Armenian revoult to overthrow and destroy the Ottoman empire, which gained them mass support


 * To keep resistance low, men were typically shot, and those who survived were marched into the desert with the women and children to die. || * President Wilson saw the events as a civil war occurring in the Ottoman empire, and said the act was justified. Wanted to stay away from it, to also stay away from World War one, despite the Ambassador's plea to help the Armenians,


 * Turks were threatened, but with most people being occupied by world war one, little was done to stop the killings, and threats were more idle


 * Fund raising in some areas did occur to help the Armenians, but this only helped the few who managed to escape death.


 * Even after the establishment of international law against genocide in 1948, the Turkish government denies all the beliefs of genocide against the Armarians.


 * Those behind the main plot of the genocide were arrested and removed from power ||
 * === The Holocaust === || * When Hitler came to power as Chancellor of Germany, the state was in great economic distress


 * Hitler was able to reduce unemployment, and restore nationalism in Germany, however the main philosophy of his views were anti-semeitism


 * Believed the Germans were the master and that the Jews were poisoning the German culture and life style


 * Hitler gained support in other Anti-Semetic states in Europe for support


 * After his first call for a boycott of Jewish business was a success, it gave him encouragement to launch his campaign || * Killings during the Holocaust were highly organized as opposed to other genocides, with the government and military personally developing facilities to do just that.


 * Industrillized gas chambers were placed at camps to gas people to death


 * Labor camps were invented were may people were sent to work until they died from starvation or exhaustion. Conditions at these camps were so poor that infection was also a high cause of death.


 * Towards the end of the war, to eliminate as many Jews as possible, death marches were held to kill massive amounts of people in camp


 * Crematorium were developed to burn victims alive in the mass amounts


 * Killing squads traveled through the region eliminating people who would've escaped the first round of rounding up


 * Jews were isolated to point were they were extremely recgonizable and easy to pick off || * United States ignored all early actions of Hitler and the Nazi powers until they finally entered the war and dsicovered the concentration camps


 * Many people tried to remain uninvolved, until they were the only ones left and the Nazi's targetted them


 * After the war the state of Israel was established, and became the home for many Jews who survived the war, wanting to escape any other governed state


 * In the UN, in 1948 genocide is established as a crime against humanity, and new international laws are set up to prevent a genocide of this scale from happening again. ||
 * === The Cambodian === || * In 1970 the Cambodia monarchy was desposed of in a military coupt against the government


 * A civili war broke out, and the new leader of the Khamer Rogue, Pol Pot took over


 * Wanted to rid the state of all class distinctions, and mold the country into a self sufficiant state


 * All cultural and connections to the outside world were desposed of || * Resistant or unneeded members of society were killed, as they had no place


 * People who had connections with the Vietnamese people were hunted down and killed


 * Looking some what intellectual by wearing glasses was enough for you to be convicted of execution


 * People were extremely overworked and starved || * Very little international efforts to help the Cambodian people


 * The outside world had very little knowledge of what was going on in the nation, and with distractions like the Vietnamese war going on, the country was ignored for the other fighting


 * Embargoes occurr on the country under U.S policey


 * Country recently began t oreconstruct itself ||