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United States involvement with genocide
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Armenian Genocide
The U.S. Senate votes to ask the President of the United States of America to set a special day when citizens of this country can help Armenians with financial support.
President Wilson designates August 21 and August 22 for making contributions for the suffering Armenians. -
Armenian Genocide
President Wilson to the Congress of the U.S. "We hope to provide the right and opportunity for people living in the Turkish Empire to make their lives safe and their fate secure from aggression and injustice, orders of foreign courts and parties. -
Armenian Genocide
United States Congressman Edward Little presents a resolution to the Congress advocating that the "Armenian people have the right to be free and independent, have an outlet to the sea and be the masters of the Christian culture for which their sons had been sacrificed". -
Armenian Genocide
United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge presented a proposal for the Senate to express the view that Armenia should be independent and the peace conference should help Armenia to create an independent republic. -
Holocaust
U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9417, creating the War Refugee Board which takes measures to rescue victims of enemy oppression in imminent danger of death. -
Holocaust
U.S. troops liberate Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. -
Holocaust
The 4th Armored Division and the 89th Infantry of the Third U.S. Army liberate Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald. -
Holocaust
Troops of the U.S. 3rd Armored Division and 104th Infantry Division liberate the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany.
The U.S. 4th Armored Division and the 80th Infantry Division liberate more than 21,000 prisoners at Buchenwald. -
Holocaust
The 90th U.S. Infantry Division liberates the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany. -
Holocaust
The 42nd and 45th Infantry Divisions and the 20th Armored Division of the U.S. Army liberate approximately 32,000 prisoners at Dachau. -
Holocaust
The U.S. 11th Armored Division liberates prisoners at the Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps in the annexed Austrian territory of the German Reich. -
Holocaust
U.S. President Truman issues a directive giving preference to displaced persons for immigrant visas under existing U.S. immigration quota restrictions. -
Holocaust
The United States Congress passes the Displaced Persons Act allowing aproximately 400,000 displaced persons to immigrate to the U.S. -
UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide
U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. -
Rwanda
The U.S. decides to evacuate all Americans from Rwanda. -
Rwanda
The U.S. and the entire U.N. Security Council vote to withdraw 90% of the peacekeepers in Rwanda. -
Bosnia
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter flies to Sarajevo to arrange a 4 month cease fire. -
Darfur
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell declares genocide in Darfur and calls it the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century. First time the U.S. has declared genocide while it was still happening. -
Rwanda
U.S. sends 50 APCs (armored personnel carriers.)