SOCIAL STUDIES Genocide Studies – Content Elaborations Grade 12 – economic, political, social, and cultural conditions of genocide: Sample topics: perpetrators: regimes and leaders demographics: vulnerable minorities heroes, bystanders, perpetrators Key questions: What were the underlying social (or economic or cultural or political) conditions in Germany that led to the Holocaust? What was the role of individuals within the Khmer Rouge in determining the events of the genocide in Cambodia? Are all Khmer Rouge leaders equally significant in causing the genocide? characteristics and stages of genocide: Sample topic: eight stages of genocide: classification symbolization dehumanization organization polarization preparation extermination denial Key questions: How do the stages of genocide affect different people in the areas in which genocides occur? How do change depending on who and where they are? In what ways might they remain the same? people’s lives acts of mass violence and atrocities in different global regions: Sample topics: indigenous peoples and cultures Beothuk extinction Armenian genocide anti-Semitic pogroms Soviet Union and Ukraine (Holodomor famine) Japanese occupation of Korea and China the Holocaust Khmer Rouge in Cambodia
SOCIAL STUDIES – Genocide Studies Content – Elaborations Grade 12 economic, political, social, and cultural conditions of genocide: Sample topics: perpetrators: regimes and leaders demographics: vulnerable minorities heroes, bystanders, perpetrators Key questions: What were the underlying social (or economic or cultural or political) conditions in Germany that led to the Holocaust? What was the role of individuals within the Khmer Rouge in determining the events of the genocide in Cambodia? Are all Khmer Rouge leaders equally significant in causing the genocide? characteristics and stages of genocide: Sample topic: eight stages of genocide: classification symbolization dehumanization organization polarization preparation extermination denial Key questions: How do the stages of genocide affect different people in the areas in which genocides occur? How do people’s lives change depending on who and where they are? In what ways might they remain the same? acts of mass violence and atrocities in different global regions: Sample topics: indigenous peoples and cultures Beothuk extinction Armenian genocide anti-Semitic pogroms Soviet Union and Ukraine (Holodomor famine) Japanese occupation of Korea and China the Holocaust Khmer Rouge in Cambodia
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