Bell Ringer: April 17(18), 2019

TOPIC:

MASS MURDER AND GENOCIDE

ESSENTIAL QUESTION (LAP 1):

IDENTIFY EXAMPLES OF MASS MURDER AND GENOCIDE

Announcements:

1. ID Badges!

2. No school Friday/Monday!

Materials:

1. Cornell Notes (Pre-filled)

2. Binder

1900s-

1995 CE

China

Cambodia

Soviet Union

Armenia

Darfur

Rwanda

Germany/

Poland

The

Balkans

Latin

America

Word Wall Vocabulary:

• Agrarian

• Augusto Pinochet

• Bosnian Muslims

• Bosnian Serbs

• Coup

• Darfur

• Ethnic Cleansing

• Eva Peron

• Famine

• Genocide

• Holocaust

• Hutu

• Janjaweed

• Juan Peron

• Khmer Rouge

• Killing Fields

• Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo

• Nanking (Nanjing)

• Pol Pot

• Purge

• Tutsi

Mass Murder: China and Cambodia

• Rape of Nanking (1937-1938): Japanese military invades Nanking, the capital city of China. The soldiers murdered 300,000 out of the 600,000 people in the city, and committed other atrocities, such as rape

• Cambodia: (1975-1979): Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia. Pol Pot wanted to recreate Cambodia’s agrarian society and forced citizens on a mass march out of the cities. Prominent citizens such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers were eliminated

Mass Murder: Armenia and the Soviet Union

• Armenia (1915-1918): 1,500,000 Armenians die through forced marches and massacres that result when Turkey expels them from their native homeland in that country

• Soviet Union (1932-1933): Stalin’s Forced Famine of the Ukraine was Stalin’s response to quell an independence movement and resulted in over 7 million deaths, when Stalin issued mandatory quotas that shipped foodstuffs from this region until no food was left

• Soviet Union (1934-1939): Stalin’s Great Purge was the removal of the old leaders of the communist movement and the many high-ranking military officers to ensure Stalin’s complete control

Mass Murder: Latin America (Chile & Argentina)

• Chile (1974-1989): Augusto Pinochet becomes dictator of Chile in a military coup. He disbanded congress, suspended the constitution, and censored the media. Within three years, an estimated 130,000 people had been tortured, killed, or fled into exile

• Argentina (1946-1983): Juan Peron won the presidency and then created a dictatorship. He and his wife, Eva, created a welfare state (the state offered programs to help people). By the mid-1970s, Peron had been replaced by a military dictatorship who hunted down political opponents. By the mid-1980s, thousands of Argentines had disappeared- killed by their own government. A group of Argentine mothers, Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, protested the government for their killing

Turn and Talk

Which of the mass murders causes the biggest reaction in you? Are there any mass murders that you don’t have any reaction to? Why?

ANS: Answers vary

Genocide: The Holocaust and the Balkans

• Germany/Poland (1930-1945): The Holocaust deterioration of conditions for Jews in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, including the Nuremberg Laws, the establishment of ghettos and concentration camps, and the Final Solution (Hitler’s plan to exterminate the Jews).

• The Balkans (1990s): Yugoslavia was a country in the Balkans that was formed after World War I. There were several ethnic groups in this area. Bosnia and Herzegovina was a region in Yugoslavia that declared independence. Bosnian Muslims and Croats (two of the ethnic groups) wanted independence. Bosnian Serbs did not. Ethnic cleansing of communities in Bosnia by Serbian-led Yugoslavian troops; Srebrenica massacre (1995) involves the murder of over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) males in this community

Genocide: Africa

• Rwanda (1994): mass murders by the majority Hutu population of over 800,000 minority Tutsi and pro-Tutsi supporters

• Darfur (2003): western region of Sudan where Sudanese government-supported Arab militias known as the Janjaweed against native groups in this region have resulted in over 400,000 deaths and the displacement of 2.8 million civilians

Turn and Talk

What do you think is the difference between a mass murder, ethnic cleansing, and genocide?

ANS: Mass murder is simply killing many people. An ethnic cleansing is when you force a specific group to move out of an area (either by forced deportation or continued violence) and many of them die as a result. A genocide is targeting a specific group for extermination.

Guided Practice: Summary

• In the bottom portion of your c-notes, complete a summary over MASS MURDERS AND GENOCIDE

Remember- the question that you are trying to answer in your summary is the same question that we wrote at the beginning of class: IDENTIFY EXAMPLES OF MASS MURDER AND GENOCIDE

Here are some sentence stems to help you out:

Mass murder/genocide took place in…(choose a country and then give details)

FUN FACT:

• Pol Pot forced an entire city to evacuate. His army claimed that America was getting ready to bomb Cambodia (using our involvement in Vietnam) and forced thousands into the fields

• In Rwanda, 800,000 people were killed in 100 days

Independent Practice: Mass Murder/Genocide Project• Using your phone, research

one of the mass murders we discussed today and create a one-pager that explains what happened

• Examples of one-pagers are on the board

• Lap 1: Bell Ringer

• Lap 2: Topic chosen

• Lap 3: One-pager started

• DUE AT THE END OF CLASS: COMPLETED ONE PAGER OVER MASS MURDER OR GENOCIDE

Missing Work:

If you’re on this list, see Ms. McCleskey. You

must complete any missing work before

beginning independent practice.

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Independent Practice: Quizizz

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• Log in to Quizizz to review for your test

• While you’re reviewing, Ms. McCleskey will call you up to discuss your grades and any missing work you may have

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