HIST 1010 Final: Exam Review Notes
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Khmer rouge: who: lead by pol pot, what: communist party of kampuchea in cambodia, where: cambodia, when: 1968 - 1996, why: turned country into detention center, focus on agriculture, significance: orchestrated the cambodian genocide. Velvet revolution: who: vaclav havel lead democratic movement, what: a student-led non violent pro democratic revolution sparked it, where: czechoslovakia, when: november december 1989, why: protest nazi occupation, significance: peaceful end to communist rule in czechoslovakia. Euthanasia and murder of degenerates : destroying racially unfit begins in germany, gassing is then extended to camps, war against russia is the turning point towards the final solution , euthanasia mercy killing was employed against certain groups: 4x as many people were killed in ww2 than ww1. 90% of jewish population was killed: more than 60 millions combatant deaths, british death rate was 1 in 4 kids, solution: unrra. 30 million people displaced as a result of hilter & stalin"s policies.
