USA HISTORY

WORLD WAR II 1941 1945

THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The extermination of an entire group of people is called
A
internment
B
appeasement
C
genocide
D
Holocaust
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (genos, “race, people") with the Latin suffix-caedo ("act of killing").

Detailed explanation-2: -Killing members of the group. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.

Detailed explanation-3: -Meaning of genocide in English the crime of intentionally destroying part or all of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, by killing people or by other methods: The violence was reminiscent of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

Detailed explanation-4: -Genocide is the deliberate murder of a whole community or race.

Detailed explanation-5: -a fine of not more than $1, 000, 000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both, in any other case.

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