The aim of the League of Nations which was the idea of Woodrow Wilson, the American preseident at teh time, was to settle disputes between countries and to prevent war from breaking out ever again. ... Two of the biggest incidents that eventually led to the downfall of the League of Nations was the dispute with Japan over a city of China called Manchuria. The league did not have the control to stop Japan and Japan also being a part of the League of Nations went against its own beliefs in a way and gave many beleivers of the Leage of Nations reason to beleive taht it was not going to work. ...

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Faced with a temporary improvement of the German economy by the Weimar Republic's ability to secure loans and investments (mostly from America), Hitler was forced to wait until economic conditions worsened to propel his Nazi agenda. In 1929 Hitler finally got his chance, the American stock market crash of 1929 affected nearly every nation in the world and German prosperity soon came to an end as a result of the Great Depression, vast unemployment and hunger that followed. ... Once the US entered the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor by Germany's ally Japan; Hitler declared war on ...

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In North America, where the population is prevalently Teutonic, and where those elements intermingled with the inferior race only to a very small degree, we have a quality of mankind and a civilization which are different from those of Central and South America. ... But in North America the Teutonic element, which has kept its racial stock pure and did not mix it with any other racial stock, has come to dominate the American Continent and will remain master of it as long as that element does not fall a victim to the habit of adulterating its blood. ... Italy had some connections in Asia, conn...

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Introduction The field of transitional justice was practically nonexistent prior to the end of the Second World War. Mass atrocities had taken place on the world stage with almost no consequences being brought upon the perpetrators, and more importantly the orchestrators or those "most responsible" for these crimes. This would all change after the crimes of the Nazis being brought to light during/after WWII. There was a paradigm shift in the international community in regards to justice being brought upon those who commit these crimes and the common thought or feeling that this coul...

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