A crime against humanity is a crime that causes human suffering or death on a very large scale. Genocide is an example of this. Genocide is the killing of large groups of people or ethnic groups. There have been many cases of genocide’s in the last hundreds of years and there are still some cases of genocide presently happening in our world. Some example’s of genocide or crimes against humanity within the past 100 years consist of the Holocaust, the Rwandan Genocide’s, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
First off, starting in 1939 was the Holocaust. Millions of Jews were killed off by the Nazi’s, ran by Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler had some bad experiences as a child and he blamed the Jewish peoples for most of those. This made him gain a great hate for Jews and thought that the world would be a better place with a master race made up of Aryan’s. But not only did he want a master race, he wanted a lot more land for his army and followers to live on. He did this by invading the Sudetenland, Poland to make East Prussia part of mainland Germany, and remilitarized the Rhineland. This caused many other countries anger, causing them the push back at Germany. This was the start of World War II. The reason I bring up all of this information is to show the reasons for which other countries, such as USA, Canada, Britain, Russia, France and many others responded to this situation in the ways that they did. These other countries didn’t like the mass genocide that Hitler was
The main reasons behind world war 2 World were land,fascism,and natural resources. World war 2 started off between Germany,Britain,France,Italy,and the Soviet Union later joined by America and Japan. World war 2 started September 2,1939 to September 2,1945 and was the most deadliest war in history with more than 30 countries resulting in more than 50 million military and civilian deaths. One main reason was land. After world war 1 Germany lost some of their land for war costs and it was used to make new countries. When Hitler came into office, he said he would get it back so Germany conquered Austria, Sudentanland, and started on Poland when Britain and France declared war. H-Hitler used his idea as dictator to take back land lost in world
World War 2 began in September 1939, mainly due to German Reich Adolf Hitler attempting to create a perfect world, which in his mind excluded mainly Jews, but also Gays, Gypsies, Poles, and people with physical, or mental disabilities. Hitler’s plan was to slowly take over the entire continent, converting the entire area slowly to his idea of Utopia, and hopefully at one point Germanize the entire world. He had formed the Nazi party in 1920, a group of over three thousand members all soldiers literally looking for a fight. German Nazis launched their first attack in 1940. France 's vaunted Maginot Line, engineered to protect the country failed to hold back the Nazi onslaught and the German Blitzkrieg poured into France. The city of Paris fell under German control, only weeks after the first invasion. France was then split into two parts, One-half being occupied France, which would be ruled by the Germans and guarded by the Nazi soldiers, Which also happened to hold the most populated city, Paris. The other half was called Vichy France, and would still be under French rule.
World War II began September 1939 and started when Germany invaded Poland for the beginning of Adolf Hitler’s plan to create the race he believed should live. (Hughes, Britannica, WWII) Hitler wanted to gain control of Poland to be able to continue his belief of creating the race he believed to be the strongest; Poland had the support
Due to Germany taking back the colonies lost after World War I and forming an alliance with Austria, Germany’s actions against the Treaty of Versailles contributed to the cause of World War II. After Germany got slapped with a $33 Billion dollar war reparation bill and Kaiser Wilhelm was removed from power, Germany was a mess, which allowed the rise of Hitler. Hitler, being a former Iron Cross winning
He took control of Austria and invaded Poland on September 1,1939, so Europe started to fight. He wanted to destroy and take over Russia quickly, but they fought back. America entered the war in 1941.
Furthermore, WWII was filled with racial hatred which fueled the fire of the war. On September 1, 1939 Britain declared war on Germany for an unprovoked attack on Poland. This caused the start of the second world war and the beginning of a genocide of the Jewish population. Hitler used the Jews as a motive for WWII, “Hitler used the Jews as a scapegoat, blaming them for Germany’s economic
World War II started on the first day of September in 1939. The ending of World War I is thought to have greatly contributed to the upcoming of the second world war. Adolf Hitler, a German politician, is the man that promoted most of the deaths and destruction that the war had to offer. Despite how complicated the war was, the fighting was split into two general groups, the Axis and Allied Powers. The Allied Powers consisted of the United States, Britain, France, and many other countries. Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria made up the Axis Powers. Despite not having as many nations join them in battle, the Axis Powers did a great damage to the world's population. Hitler was the
September 1939 Great Britain and France they declared war on Germany and at that moment World War ll had begun. Over the six years of the war the conflict of the war took many lives for the Jews. Estimated about 45-60 Million people killed were jews. They were murdered in the concentration camps. Hitler's final solution was to kill all the Jews after the
World War II started when the German Nazis invaded Poland in a conquest for power and world domination. This led to a series of events resulting in a war between the “Allied Powers” (mainly Russia, Great Britain, and eventually America) against the “Axis Powers” (mainly
From the Treaty of Versailles, to the rise of Hitler, and the failure of the League of Nations, there were many causes that lead up to World War II. World War I left Germany with many shortfalls, thus leaving them in the hands of the Treaty of Versailles. Rather unfair of a Treaty, this left Germany once again looking for another way out. A country resented by many had no other choice but to feel optimistic toward Adolph Hitlers empty promises… making it substantially simple for him to gain power so quick. Throw in the Great Depression, and you have a vastly unstable world, which the Germans believed Hitler would lead them out of.
It all began in 1933 when the entire world was in a depression. Adolph Hitler became chancellor of Germany in January of that year. In Germany alone, over five million people were without work. They were afraid and still angry because Germany was defeated in World War I. In that war, Hitler was in the German army. After the war, their country was made to sign the Treaty of Versailles. This Treaty forced Germany to lose some of their territory along with limiting the size of its army and having to pay large amounts of money for war damages.
Genocide is a term that can be defined as a planned and systematic destruction of whole or parts of certain national, religious, race, ethnic, cultural or political group (Akhavan 21). Genocide is deliberated with a different set of actions for a purpose to destroy an essential foundation of life. Genocide is characterized with the massive killing of members of a group, causing mental or bodily injuries to a group of people, imposing mechanisms to prevent birth, removing particular group children and putting conditions of life in order to bring to an end existence of a particular group. Therefore, genocide is an illegal action and a crime recognized and punishable by international law (Charmy 35). For instance, Rwanda genocide is characterized by ethnic tensions within the country. Initially the definition of the term genocide as by genocide convection only comprised of racial, ethnic, national and religious groups. They argued that inclusion of other groups cannot strengthen but rather weakens it. This definition failed to recognize other groups such as political groups, economic and cultural groups that are essential elements of genocide. Genocide therefore, is generally considered the worst moral crime the ruling authority can commit against those it controls Naimark (2017).
The term "genocide" was developed during the Holocaust and announced an international crime during the 1948 United Nations Convention that focused on Prevention and Punishment of genocide as a crime. Genocide is, therefore, defined as deeds committed with the aim of destroying, in whole or partially, anethnical, national, religious or racial group.Such acts include, killing followers of the group, causing serious physical or mental harm to followers of the group, intentionallyimposing on the group conditions of living aimed at bringing about its physical loss, imposing measures envisioned to prevent new births within the group, or compulsorily transferring children of the society to a different group.
Genocide is one of the evillest moral crimes any ruling authority such as a government can commit against its people and it happens more than we think. A general definition of Genocide is the intention to destroy or murder people because of their race, beliefs, or even political and economic status. As we have been taught in this course Raphael Lemkin, created the term ‘Genocide’ 1944. Lemkin combined the ancient Greek word ‘genos’ which means race and the Latin word ‘cide’ which translates to killing. There are many examples of genocide in the world but the most recognizable is that of the Holocaust and how the German powers that be sought and attempted to kill all Jews. A recent example is the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 where the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana caused a violent reaction resulting in mass killings. In efforts to reduce Genocide, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNCG) was adopted by the United Nations in 1948 and was placed in force in 1951. On July 1, 2002 the International Criminal Court (ICC) came into force. The ICC not only accepted the UNCG’s definition of Genocide but expanded it to include crimes against humanity such as enslavement, deportation, torture, rape, enforced disappearance and apartheid. There have been many organizations created throughout the world to defend and prevent genocide and even communities, religions and even colleges are forming organizations and these are just some examples of how
The Second World War began in September of 1939 and was between the Allies and the Axis. It began with Germany’s unprovoked attack and conquest of Poland, and involved Britain and France from the beginning. Its origins lay in German resentment at the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (1919), the economic crisis of 1929-30, which favored the rise to power of Fascist dictators, the failure of the League of Nations to gain international acceptance for disarmament, and the policy of imperialism adopted by Germany, Italy and Japan as a means of acquiring raw materials and markets. As a part of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany had to accept full responsibility for the First World War, which then led up to the outbreak of the Second. The