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Guiding Questions:
1) What is a massacre, holocaust, and genocide? 2) Was "The Rape of Nanking" a genocide and/or holocaust? 3) Why do you think some refer to it as a massacre? 4) Does the term we ascribe (assign to) really matter? 5) Why do we study such horrific events?

Definitions (From [|Merriam-Webster On-line])
Look up the other massacre.
 * Genocide:** the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.

1 **:** a sacrifice consumed by fire  2 **:** a thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life especially through fire   3 a //) often capitalized// **:** the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II —usually used with //the// b **:** a mass slaughter of people;
 * Holocaust:**

[|The Eight Stages of Genocide] Answer these questions to discuss and turn in on Chapter 5, and pages 147-157.
 * In general, what are the foreigners able to reveal about the Nanking Genocide? Why is it important for world knowledge for them to be there?
 * How did the Japanese try to conceal their crimes during the Rape of Nanking?
 * How did word get out about what was happening in Nanking and how did people in the United States react?
 * What sort of image of the WWII era history does Japan play up?
 * What is the controversy about Nanking?
 * Why do you think Hiroshima and Japanese interment are better remembered than the Rape of Nanking?

NOVEMBER 13-14 write a two paragraph reflection: //Should Korea and China have a say in what Japan puts into its textbooks?//

