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Essential Learning
Students will learn that mass killings have been
a common occurrence in the Twentieth Century.
Skills
1. Students will distinguish between primary and
secondary sources and assess the usefulness of each
n conducting historical research.
2. Students will apply facts to the definition of
"genocide" and determine whether the elements
of the definition are satisfied.
Knowledge
Students will become familiar with the basic facts
of the following historical events:
1. The early Twentieth Century mass killings of
Armenians by Turks.
2. The Ukrainian famine of the 1930s
3. The Nazi extermination campaign against European
Jews
4. The mass killings by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia
5. The events in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
6. The mass killings of Tutsis and moderate Hutus
in Rwanda in the 1990s.
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