The basic causes of world war (II) were nationalistic tensions, unresolved issues and other resentments resulting from the world war (I). However, the culmination of events that led to war was the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany which was provoked by additional events before the invasion which contributed to the commencing of World War II. ... The League of Nations was originally created to promote world peace but instead the malfunctions of the league were one of the major causes of world war (II). ... One of the league's major contributions to world war (II) was the reaction to Italy...

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Historians are quoted as saying that although World War I was not inevitable; World War II was due to the unresolved tension between nations. ... World War II officially began in September of 1939 when Britain and France declared war on Germany following its direct violation of the Munich Pact by invading Poland. ... Due to unresolved anger with the Treaty of Versailles, the rise of dictatorship in Europe, and United States isolation countries around the world took part in history's bloodiest and most widespread war, World War II. ... The harsh terms of the treaty are often blamed for Ge...

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But where did the commonly chosen war weapon of propaganda originate from and why was it so successful in accomplishing country wide persuasion? ... The documentary "Pyongyang Diaries" (1998) directed by Australian Solrun Hoaas documents the aftermath of the death of the North Korean 'Great Leader', Kim II Sung. ... World War II saw continued use of propaganda as a weapon of war by Hitler's propagandist Joseph Goebbels (World War Two, 2009). ... This poster was intended to spread the notion, throughout Germany, that the Jewish population were the antagonists of the German pe...

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During World War II Japanese Americans were portrayed as a racial nest of spies and sabotagers. ... Another type of discrimination that occurred in the United States during World War II was discrimination towards Negroes. Black people were looked lowly upon during World War II. ... Some Negroes didn't think it was fair for them to fight in the war. ... The United States wasn't the only place where racism and discrimination was in action during World War II. ...

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In World War II, the human race saw a genocide of those of Jewish descent, those of homosexuality, disability, and many others. ... These are the camps that are located within North Korea and are classified by ex prisoners as the modern labor camps from World War II. ... Women back in World War II and in the North Korean camps have sold their bodies to soldiers in order to receive better treatment and food. ...

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Thematically, good will conquer evil, as Jack Carson's actions symbolically represent the United States and the Allied powers as he battles the the evil Colonel Helmut Von Toth, who represents Adolf Hitler and the Axis powers as a reflection of the events of World War II. ... World War II began, On September 1, 1939. ... World War II had begun" ("World War II and the Holocaust" 1). ... "The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945" ("World War II, America at War" 1). World War II ended with over sixty milli...

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From her extreme knowledge about the war, she explains to her readers why they put so much effort into killing so many innocent people. ... As uncomfortable as this subject matter was to read, I have also learned how much they had to sacrifice and went through from visualizing all of the graphic experiences that happened firsthand at war. ... These four points are the most important parts of the new insights that I have learned from reading Bergen's book about the war and genocide that happened during the history of the holocaust. ... As uncomfortable as some of the incidents were to r...

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HOLOCAUST During World War II, Nazi Germany, under the rule of Adolf Hitler, rule almost every part of Europe. ... It was called "Auschwitz II- Birkenau, built on farmland surrounded by beautiful birch trees. ... In Auschwitz II, they found 600 bodies who had been killed by the Nazi, an hour before the camp was free. However 7,650 sick prisoners were saved: 1,200 in Auschwitz I, 5,800 in Auschwitz II, and 650 in Auschwitz III. ... And a great number of Jewish were killed during the World War II as well. ...

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All of this has to do with the specifics events in World War II, and the reactions of the people, or filmmakers, that followed. Everyone has some type of emotion that can explain how they feel about World War II and Hitler's genocide. ... All war is bad. In war people die. ... Every soldier, officer, man, woman, and child felt some guilt during World War II. ...

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The book took place during the time of war in Denmark, Copenhagen. The book talked about the escape of a Jewish family from Copenhagen during World War II. ... She tries to help rescue Ellen and her family from the war that broke out against the Jewish ethnic community. ... France and other countries wanted to prevent another war from happening which is why they wanted to come with an agreement with Adolf Hitler so Trehan 4 they could avoid another World War from happening. ... The Star of David necklace is associated with the Holocaust and World War 2. ...

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World War I came to an end on November 11, 1918. ... David Lloyd George, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, held office during the latter part of World War I and through early years following the war. Great Britain suffered roughly thirty-six percent of the Allied war debt, and approximately seventeen percent of the war's casualty total. ... The clause stated that Germany and its allies were entirely to blame for the war, and thus responsible for all war debt. ... At the war's end, the Kaiser, Wilhelm II, gave up his throne, and Germany became a republic. ...

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In World War II they deferred a little from their concept of neutrality. ... In the beginning of the war the Swiss were trading with all countries. ... Also the Swiss laundered gold for the Nazi's war efforts. ... That is how the Swiss helped the two major powers in World War II economically, financially, and militarily. ... They did not act like a neutral nation would act during a war, but history books and encyclopedias still say that they were a neutral nation during World War II. ...

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Some of the of the main form of mass communication that Hitler used were; large meetings within the Nazi party, large dehumanization camps and a book entitled "Mein Kampf- which sold over five million copies before the start of World War II. Second, he was the main culprit of World War II, and a war criminal by using concentration camps. ... Italy had suffered badly during the war - 460,000 soldiers were killed and the country was heavily in debt. ... It was no accident that Mussolini allied with Hitler during World War II. ...

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Prior to World War II, both Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler rose to power in their respective countries and brought about great change during their ensuing reigns. ... Both men molded their countries into international powers prior and during World War II through sometimes-questionable means; however, Hitler was better for his country than Stalin was for his due to the economic, social, and political changes that he caused in Germany. Although, Germany eventually lost World War II, Hitler did much more with much less in Germany when compared to Stalin. ... After World War I, Germany was the c...

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During World War Two, while much of the world was fighting a war against Germany, Germany was fighting another war against what it considered the "undesirables" of its countries. ... Although the Roma were prosecuted before the war, much this pre-war prosecution was not life threatening, and mostly constituted of laws preventing Romas from living in certain places. ... The treatment of the Roma during the war was almost or equally as horrifying as the Jews. ... However during the war Roma children were not permitted to be in any German schools. ... This office remained open and funct...

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Adolf Hitler started out as an ordinary solider in World War I. ... Hitler was an unusual solider during World War I. ... When he reflected on the war that he faced, he stated that he disliked it. ... While in Munich he saw many anti-war protestors. ... He used the idea of a single enemy to encourage his people to go to war. ...

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Throughout time wars have been waged with the claims of a religious purpose, but if looked at more closely, the actual wars were fought because of political reasons and mainly just to obtain land. ... A crusade is a war fought with a religious purpose and at the calling of a religious leader. ... "In Tibet, communist China invaded in the 1950's right after World War II had ended. ... The Jewish Holocaust took place between 1933 and 1945 during the duration of World War II. The Nazi Party was in power for six years before the war. ...

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As Hitler and the Nazi's power rose in Germany during the 1920s, 30s and 40s, after World War I, we begin to see how this happened and compare it to the concepts of Democracy which we live by today. ... After World War I in 1918, Germany was a nation with political and social problems. ... This meant that Germany was forced to take the blame for causing the war and had to pay for all the war damages; as well as give up some land to France and Poland and was also forbidden to have any submarines or military aircraft. ...

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Italy had been promised extra land by Britain and France during the war, but when the war ended it was not handed over. ... the governments after the war were weak. they were coalitions (made up of more than one party) and were not able to take decisions. ... Fascism as a twentieth-century doctrine was the invention of Benito Mussolini, who had been a rising if erratic star in Italy's socialist party before World War I. ... Different strands of the idea Germany, Italy and Japan adopted some variations of fascism by the 1930s until up to the end of World War II. After the war there was...

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At age 18 and after World War I when Germany was at a all time low, Himmler despised the Weimar Republic and expressed hatred for anyone who was anti-Germany. ... It was Himmler's men who staged the phony border incident that Hitler used to justify the invasion of Poland and the outbreak of World War II. ... As the war proceeded, the armored portions of the SS rivaled for power in the military field, which led to Himmler being named Minister of the Interior in 1943. ...

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Fascism was forged in the crucible of post-World War I nationalism in Europe. ... The humiliation imposed by the victors in the Great War, coupled with the hardship of the economic Depression, created bitterness and anger. ... Fascism offered an alternative to the system of parliamentary democracy which failed to solve the post-war social and economic problems. ... However, it was in Germany that the idea of a "super race- was brought to a frightening conclusion with the killing of 6 million Jews (final solution) by the end of the war. ... The post war years saw strikes and demonstrations ...

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World War I had left the country in shambles and, as if that weren't enough, the people of Germany had been humiliated and stripped of their pride and dignity by the Allies. ... In order to understand why exactly Hitler was able to make Germany a fascist state, we must study the effects that the end of World War I had on the country. Germany was left devastated and vulnerable at the end of the war. ... The Allies did not make any effort to help Germany during this time and left Germany to fend for itself (they seemed to be aware that this had been a mistake by the end World War II when th...

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Christopher Browning writes a detailed history of the soldiers of the German Reserve Police Battalion 101 and their role in the mass murder of Jews in Poland during the Second World War in his book, Ordinary Men. ... The majority of the book tells the story of the middle-aged German soldiers based on their own testimony from legal proceedings well after World War II had ended. ... It also does not prove that they were not anti-Semitic before the war. ... He does not consider the men significantly affected by the anti-Semitic environment in which they had been immersed over the decade prio...

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Even Mussolini's and Hitler's fascist states - allied Axis forces in World War II - were far from identical. ... Fascist economic programs supported the wealthy, and until he instituted a war economy, Mussolini provided minimum interference to industrialists, cut taxes on business and decreed wage reduction (RoSo, 2002). ...

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Before the war began, 1939, most Jews had already begun to be sent to concentration camps, transit camps, or forced to live in ghettoes. ... By the end of World War Two, after Hitler's suicide and the overthrow of the Nazi regime, approximately six million Jews, almost two-thirds of the entire European Jewish population, had been murdered. ... Hitler did not hate Jews as much as he seemed to; he merely used Jews as a visible scapegoat so as to begin his own rise to power in the shattered remains of post-World War I Germany. ... And, to digress, Bullock as well points to certain phrases...

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