Genocides throughout the World
Directions: Read the passages. Complete the worksheet with your information.
Began in 1830 during The victims were The Cherokees The result were entire groups of
the colonization of the people ingenious to suffered 50 percent indegenious people dying. The
U.S portion of North the U.S portion of fatalities. The colonists colonized America, and
America. North America (Native Choctaws, Chickasaws, the Native Americans lost
Americans). Seminoles, and Creeks everything.
suffered 25 to 35
percent apiece.
Started in April 1915 The victims was the More than half of the The result was Ottoman Turks killing
and ended in 1923. Armenian population in Armenian population over 1,500,000 Armenians, and also
Lasted 8 years. the Ottoman Empire. (1,500,000 people) was killing Pontic Greeks and Assyrians,
Pontic Greeks and the annihilated. committing a genocide.
Assyrians were also
targeted.
From 1932 to 1933 (1 The victims were An estimated The result was that much of the
year) during Joseph Ukrainians, and mostly 7,000,000 people wheat crop that the Ukrainians
Stalin’s rule over the Ukrainians that grew perished due to the grew was dumped on the foreign
Soviet Union. crops. resulting famine. An market to generate cash to aid
estimated 25,000 Stalin’s Five-Year Plan.
people died every
day.
In December of 1913. The victims were 300,000 out of the The result was citywide burnings,
people that lived in 600,000 were killed. stabbing, drownings, rapes, and
China’s capital city of 20,00 women were thefts.
Nanking. Many raped.
women in particular
were abused.
From 1975 to 1979. Resulted in the deaths Pol Pot attempted to purify
Different ethnic of 25% of the Cambodia of western culture, city
groups and all those population from life, and religion, and he partially
considered to be of starvation, overwork, succeeded.
the “old society”, and executions.
intellectuals, former
government of cials,
and Buddhist monks.
Violence has been More than 400,000 people The United States Congress had
Since February 2002, raging in the Darfur have died due to violence, recognized this situation as genocide.
there had been a region of western starvation and disease.
genocide in Darfur Sudan. More than 2.5 million have
been displaced from their
homes, and over 200,00
have ed to Chad.
Genocides throughout the World
Answer these after you have finished Step 1!
1. Why is it important to learn about different genocides throughout history? link to website here
By learning about different genocides, we can identify a genocide when it happens, instead
of letting it go on with no action being taken against it. We can prevent more deaths and
instead work on banding together.
2. Why do genocides still occur today, even though we know how to identify them?
Genocides still occur today because people have a sense of cultural superiority. They think
that what they are doing is right and assume that they are better. This is very untrue.
Everyone is equal. But by failing to believe that everyone is equal, genocides occur.
3. Go to this website, look through a genocide occuring today. Which genocide did you look at
AND what is something that could be done to help stop it (think the preventative methods with
the 10 stages)?
One genocide that is happening today is the genocide in Palestine. Something that could be done to stop it is
rapid and overwhelming armed intervention. Real safe areas our refugee escape corridors should be
established with heavily armed international protection. People should support the people getting killed, not
the ones killing.
4. Based on what you’ve seen, why is it that ordinary people (i.e. non-extremist groups or people
that aren’t from military backgrounds) are often the ones contributing to genocide?
