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5.	What are other examples of genocide in the 20th Century? (WHII. 12b)

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5.	What are other examples of genocide in the 20th Century? (WHII. 12b)

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·    Armenians by leaders of the Ottoman Empire

·    Peasants, government and military leaders, and members of the elite in the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin

·    Artists, technicians, former government officials, monks, minorities, and other educated individuals by Pol Pot in Cambodia

Tutsi minority by Hutu in Rwanda

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4.	Why did the Holocaust occur? (WHII.12b)

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4.	Why did the Holocaust occur? (WHII.12b)

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·    Totalitarianism combined with nationalism

·    History of anti-Semitism

·    Defeat in World War I and economic depression blamed on German Jews

·    Hitler’s belief in the master race

·    Final solution: Extermination camps, gas chambers

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3.	Who were the major leaders of WWII? (WHII. 12a)

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3.	Who were the major leaders of WWII? (WHII. 12a)

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·    Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. president

·    Harry Truman: U.S. president after death of President Roosevelt

·    Dwight D. Eisenhower: Allied commander in Europe

·    Douglas MacArthur: U.S. general

·    George C. Marshall: U.S. general

·    Winston Churchill: British prime minister

·    Joseph Stalin: Soviet dictator

·    Adolf Hitler: Nazi dictator of Germany

·    Hideki Tojo: Japanese general

Hirohito: Emperor of Japan

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1.	What were the causes of WWII?(WHII.12a)

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1.	What were the causes of WWII?(WHII.12a)

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·    Aggression by the totalitarian powers of Germany, Italy, Japan

·    Nationalism

·    Failures of the Treaty of Versailles

·    Weakness of the League of Nations

·    Appeasement

·    Tendencies towards  isolationism and pacifism in Europe and the United States

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2.      What were the five major events of WWII? (WHII. 12a)

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2.      What were the five major events of WWII? (WHII. 12a)

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·    German invasion of Poland

·    Fall of France

·    Battle of Britain

·    German invasion of the Soviet Union

·    Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

·    D-Day (Allied invasion of Europe)

Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki