CONTENT STATEMENT
Oppression and discrimination resulted in the Armenian Genocide during World War I and the Holocaust during World War II.
CONTENT ELABORATION
By the early 1900s, the Ottoman Empire was in decline and the Ottomans believed that minority groups within the Empire were partially to blame for this decline, including the Armenians. The Ottomans began a systematic targeting of Armenians during World War I leading to the murder of millions of Armenians.
When the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, it capitalized on long-standing anti-Semitic ideologies to institutionalize discrimination and dehumanizing of Jews leading to the government’s “Final Solution”, the systematic mass murder of millions of Jews. Other groups of people suffered atrocities under Nazi persecution.
Factors that impacted the Holocaust include:
- anti-Semitism (historical, economic, and racial ideology);
- Nuremberg Laws;
- propaganda (using available means of technology); and
- concentration and death camps.
EXPECTATIONS FOR LEARNING
Analyze how oppression and discrimination led to genocides of the Armenians during World War I and Jews during World War II.