Were the Nuremberg Trials Just The Nuremberg Trials served justice by holding accountable the highest ranking officers of the Nazi party. The Nazi party was the leading group in the Holocaust. This was the genocide of an estimated 10 to 12 million people (History.com). Approximately 6 million of those were European Jews. The prisoners were often taken to concentration or death camps were they were either worked to death or killed. The Holocaust lasted approximately 12 years (1933-1945). After the
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proves that Britain and France disliked any fight. Haile wanted to stop the Italian aggression. If the aggression was not stopped‚ he‚ the aggressor‚ would attack others. Aggressors should not be appeased (AS SEEN IN DOCUMENT 2). As seen by Winston Churchill‚ the aggressor must be stopped‚ Britain‚ France‚ and the other countries must join together in a collective security to stop aggression. They should have stopped Hitler when he seized Austria or threatened Czechoslovakia‚ which was later taken
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THE COLD WAR BY: Rosalia Salinas History V04B Final Fall 2014 Immediately in the aftermath of WWII‚ the world was split into two opposing camps‚ the Western Bloc which consists of the U.S.‚ its NATO allies and some others and Eastern Bloc consist of the Soviet Union and their allies from the Warsaw Pact. Though they did not fight directly‚ there were major regional wars in Korea‚ Vietnam and Afghanistan that both sides supported; they were actively engaged in the Cold War. This war did not
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People and Events of World War II by Kevan Salisbury The Axis Powers World War II was started by the Axis Forces‚ which were comprised of Germany‚ Italy‚ and Japan. They fought against the combined might of almost the entire world‚ and‚ but for a supreme combined effort on the part of America‚ the USSR‚ and Britain‚ almost won. During the war‚ the Axis Powers were totalitarian states‚ controlled by their respective leader or leaders. These are their stories. During World War
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“With faith and hope and courage we hold our heads erect and with the dauntless spirit marshal the working class for the march from Capitalism to Socialism‚ from Slavery to Freedom‚ from Barbarism to Civilization.” Eugene Debs said this at his opening speech delivered as candidate of the Socialist party for president in Indianapolis on September 1‚ 1904. Debs‚ and one of his influencers Karl Marx‚ were said to be the creators of American Socialism. Socialism is defined as‚ “any of various economic
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over them. By this strategy‚ paired with others including “War is Peace” and “Freedom is Slavery‚” the Party disallows the public to think their own thoughts. The protagonist himself‚ Winston Smith‚ is revises and deletes evidence so that the “history” conforms to the Party’s changing desires. At one point Winston realizes the connection between a person’s memories of the past and their outlook on the present. “And when memory failed and written records were falsified…there …never again could exist
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Citizens were blind to Stalin’s cruel dictatorship‚ simply because they needed some kind of leader. Churchill stated in his speech that‚ the “Iron Curtain” separated West and Eastern Europe. The East European government adopted a communist system and fell under the control of the U.S.S.R. (Doc #1). This created tension‚ induced by ideology differences.
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latter stages of the French Revolution and its associated wars. As Napoleon I‚ he was Emperor of the Fr ench from 1804 to 1814 and again in 1815. 7 Winston Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister o f the United Kin gdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill is the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize in Li terature since its inception in 6 1901 Roosevel t (January 30‚ 1882 – April 12‚ 1945)
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1. Describe the major war aims of the Allied Powers. During the start of the First World War‚ several countries that formed the Allied Powers consisted of the British Empire‚ France‚ the Russian Empire‚ Italy‚ Romania‚ Japan‚ and the United States joined two years later. President Wilson had tried to keep the United States neutral‚ as they only wanted to trade with all of the countries‚ yet that changed after the Germans sunk the passenger ship Lusitania. These Allies fought against the
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why Japan wanted to take this colony. This is important because Singapore played an important role.According to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill‚“I think you ought to realize the way we view the situation in Singapore... The honor of the British Empire and of the British Army is at stake. I rely on you to show no mercy to weakness in any form.”(Churchill‚ Feb.10‚1941.)This quotation reveals how important Singapore is . This is important because although Britain tried their best to protect
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