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genocide midterm
| raphael lemkin | early genocide scholar who created the term "genocide" and influenced the drafting of the 1948 UN genocide convention |
| joseph goebbels | the nazi minister of propaganda |
| nazi party | political party responsible for perpetrating the holocaust |
| nuremberg laws | -placed severe legal restrictions on jews -prohibited intermarriage with non jews, voting, attending schools/universities, jobs, running for office |
| final solution | the nazi program of exterminating all jews. It was the law answer tot he jewish questions contemplated under hitler |
| concentration camps | prsion campus used under the rule of hitler in nazi germany that originally held political dissidents and were later converted to labor camps |
| extermination camps | camps that were connected to concentration camps by railroads and were used to execute people in massive gas chambers during the holocaust; also known as death camps |
| auschwitz | the largest nazi dealth camps |
| nuremberg trails | a series of trials conducted by an international tribunal in which former nazi leaders were charged, convicted, and punished for the crimes they committed in relation to the holocaust |
| wannsee conference | a meeting of high-ranking nazi officials at which the final solution was officially adopted |
| tatlaat pasha (mehmed talat) | he was the young turk interior minister of the ottoman empire who ordered the armenian genocide |
| serbs | the predominatly eastern orthodoc christian population that perpetrated the bosnian genocide |
| ethnic cleansing | the term used in place of "genocide" by slobodan milosevic and many in the international community to describe the systematic ethnic killing in the former yugoslavia |
| srebrenica massacre | over 8,000 bosnians were killed by the serb military in this infamous mass extermination when UN peacekeepers failed to protect a "safe zone" |
| bosnian genocide death toll | approximately 200,000 |
| genocide convention 1948 | held in the aftermath of the holocaust, this meeting defined genocide as a violation of international law with the purpose of preventing future genocides form occuring and punishing the perpetrators of genocide |
| sovereignty | the ability of a state to govern its territory in a manner that is free from control of its internal affairs by other states |
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