What+Is+Genocide?


 * Pre-research questions:**
 * Step 1.** Turn to a clean piece of loose-leaf in the reading section of your binder, or open a Word document or Google Doc. Include the heading "Defining Genocide" and today's date at the top of the page.


 * Research questions:**
 * Step 2.** Navigate through the following web-pages from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in order to find answers to **ALL 15** questions below. Number your answers and include them in your document. Feel free to investigate some of the photos and maps. Many of them are extremely detailed. You do not need to use complete sentences in your answers. Be ready to share your answers tomorrow in class. If you do not finish looking at all the pages and answering all the questions, they should be done for homework over the weekend.


 * NOTE:** You may want to open two tabs or two windows, so that you can view the questions on this page in one window, and the USHMM website in another window.

United States Holocaust Museum - **What is Genocide**?

1. Read the first paragraph on the above page. Define the term genocide in your own words. 2. Who came up with the word "genocide"? 3. In what year was the word invented? 4. What motivated him to create this word?

U.S. Holocaust Museum - **Introduction to the Holocaust**

5. What does the word "holocaust" mean in Greek? 6. When did the Nazis come to power in Germany? 7. Why did the Nazis persecute and murder the Jews? 8. What other groups did they target? 9. How many Jewish people lived in Europe in 1933? 10. What is a concentration camp? 11. What is a ghetto? Where did the word come from?

U.S. Holocaust Museum - **Anti-semitism**

12. In your own words, what is antisemitism? 13. What is a pogrom? 14. Click on the link and then scroll down the page to look through various pieces of propaganda and **artifacts that show antisemitism** and summarize the statements made in these images. 15. How are Jews depicted in the images?

If when you finish, you are interested, take some time to look through the images in the following articles. Many of them are shocking: U.S. Holocaust Museum - Nazi Propaganda

U.S. Holocaust Museum - 1936 Olympics

How many KKK groups in US? A member of the KKK kills three people in Kansas in an attempt to harm Jewish people. Is the KKK a terrorist group? More about the KKK as a terrorist organization
 * Post-research extra credit questions:**
 * Why does this matter?**

Read about __neo-Nazis and white supremicists and how they played a role in the Sikh Temple murder__ Listen to an NPR story on the [| rise in hate crimes in California] and then respond to it in your journal or in your document. Write at least a short paragraph explaining your reaction to these stories. It should be at least seven to ten sentences.