This timeline presents the major events, any genocides or crimes against humanity that took place between 1900 and the present. ;xNLx;Completed by Jessica Guo (Fall 2013)
The Herero and Namaqua Genocide took place in the early 1900s, during the Herero Wars.
The massacre of the Assyrian population of the Ottoman Empire was in conjunction with the Greek and Armenian Genocides.
The genocide of the Greeks is linked to the Armenian Genocide. The Greek Genocide was also put into action by the Ottoman government.
The four year war between the Allies and the Central Powers was the first great, world conflict.
The mass extermination of the minority Armenian population by the Ottoman government in present-day Turkey.
Almost 5 years after the assassination of the Archduke of Austria, government leaders met at Versailles near Paris to sign the peace treaty. The main decisions of the treaty were made by the Big Three: Britain, France and the United States.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th 1889. He served in the German Army in World War 1. He was outraged at the results of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany and vowed vengeance.
The Ukrainian Famine. Holod means hunger and mor means plague, in Ukrainian. The translation of Holodomor is death by hunger.
The result of Hitler's antisemitism.
The 1936 Winter Olympics, hosted by Germany.
The 1936 Summer Olympics hosted by Germany.
Turkey passed the Resettlement Law in 1934 to move the Alevi Kurds and the Zazas from Dersim, in an attempt to end the rebellion.
The Parsley Massacre was ordered by the President of the Dominican Republic. He ordered for the Haitian population to be killed.
During the six week time period following the capture of Nanking by the Japanese, a large number of the population were raped and killed.
World War Two begun when Hitler took over Czechoslovakia, violating the Munich Pact.
The term 'genocide' was coined by Raphael Lemkin
Following the end of the Second World War, European countries began to exile citizens of German descent from their nations.
Founded in 1945 by international countries to replace the League of Nations
The warfare of the Iran-Iraq War was similar to that of World War One: Trench Warfare, chemical attacks, and head-on charges through no-man's lands.
Recognized separately from the Halabja Chemical Attack. President Saddam Hussein ordered for all minority groups in Iraq to be destroyed.
Also known as the Halabja Massacre. By order of Saddam Hussein, chemical bombs were dropped on the Kurdish population in Northern Iraq.
Took place during the Bosnian War.
Conflict between the Hutu and the Tutsi resulted in the mass slaughter of the Tutsi population in Rwanda.
As this conflict enters its tenth year, the death toll of this war continues to go up.
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