1. Why did the genocide of Native Americans happen and what were its effects? 2. Why did the Armenian Genocide happen and what were its effects?
3. The Turkish government denies that what was done to the Armenians was genocide. Why do you think this is?
4. Why did the Cambodian Genocide happen and what were its effects? 5. Why were the Jewish ghettos set up? 6. Describe life in the ghetto. 7. Describe life in the concentration camps. 8. What were the effects of the Holocaust? 9. What do all the genocides you have studied have in common?
10. What steps were taken by governments against the targeted peoples before the mass murders began?
11. Find out when the following events took place and put them into chronological order: the liberation of the concentration camps; the Nuremberg Laws; the formation of ghettos; the creation of extermination camps; the outbreak of World War II; Kristallnacht.
Exploring History
1. Write a paragraph about the genocide of: (a) Native Americans; (b) the Armenian people; and (c) the Cambodian people.
2. Write an account of the background, course and consequences of the Holocaust. 3. Research a concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Europe and record ten facts about this camp.
KEY TERMS Genocide
Dehumanisation Ghetto
Einsatzgruppen
the attempt to eliminate entire peoples or religious or ethnic groups treating people as though they were somehow less than human
part of a city where a minority group lives, due to social, legal or economic pressure
special mobile killing squads that followed the German army east and performed mass executions of ‘anti-German elements’
The Final Solution the Nazis’ offi cial plan to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe
Go to page 155 of your Sources and Skills Book for more exercises.
Go to page 94 of your Research Portfolio for a task based on this chapter.
