Abdul Hamid II

perpetrators, though many have not. Reparations, even enormous ones, do not repay the families of the murdered. This can be exemplified with the genocide of the Poles in the Katyn Woods, and the Armenian Genocide. One happened in the midst of World War II, and has been largely ignored by the international community, and one happened during World War I, and despite worldwide outrage, the perpetrators never paid for their crimes. Justice, which on Earth can only go as far as substantial…

Germany was not responsible for World War One because in the years leading up to the war, countries held strong militaristic feelings that lead to increased hostility, alliances were formed between many countries that expanded conflicts to a global scale, and widespread nationalistic values increased international tensions between major powers. To begin with, Germany was not to blame for World War One because, at the time, strong nationalistic feelings were prevalent in most of the major…

Canada’s independence was influenced by many factors such as the 1982 constitution, which added the charter of right and freedom for Canada, Canada 's choice to join world war 2, in the first world war we were forced to fight along Britain although for world war 2 we chose to fight with them. Finally, Canada’s contribution to both world wars. Canada was a colony of the British Empire, meaning Britain retained overall legislative supremacy. In 1982, Pierre Trudeau introduced several new…

World War I is perhaps the most pivotal moment in the past century because it caused a sort of domino effect for the events which would proceed this brutal and costly disruptance, and all it took was one bullet. It wasn’t until 1917 when America officially declared their entrance into the war because Woodrow Wilson and his administration feared that the American people would not support them in their decision. Their fear was not wrongly placed, Wilson had been preaching for a long time that the…

A Separate Peace The novel A Separate Peace was written by John Knowles. A Separate Peace tells the story of a young man Gene Forrester who attends a boarding school (Devon) during World War II. At the start of the novel Gene is visiting the school as an adult, and then flashes back to Gene when he was a teenager. At the start of the flashback, Gene’s closest friend at Devon, Finny, is daring Gene to jump off of a tree, into one of the of the rivers on the school grounds. Gene does jump off of…

The changing foreign policy and alliances during World War 2 (1939-1945) saw Australia begin to shift its dependence from Britain to the United States of America (USA), due to threatening attacks from Japan, consequently impacting Australia’s participation in the war and the shaping of the nation’s policies and identity. As the Axis forces continued to advance with Japan at the forefront, threat toward Australia grew and the country questioned their connection with their ‘Mother Country’.…

Cold War Following years of brutal fighting, a war which engulfed the entire world, feelings could not simply be thrown away. Bitter rivalries had arisen out of World War II, even ones between former allies. Just after the war America’s public support and trust of the USSR was higher than 50%, within months that number would drop lower than 35% as hostility grew between the two nations. Many began comparing it to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in ways such as the autocratic government and labor camps.…

1. Why does NSC 68 view the Soviet Union as different from other great powers? The NSC 68 viewed the Soviet Union as different from other great powers due to the fact that it is motivated by a specific ideology, with an aim to spread it around the world. As stated in the policy, the Soviet Union “…is animated by a new fanatic faith” (Foner 217), with that faith being communism, which stripped people of their individual freedoms. The United States viewed this as a threat, specifically because…

Before and during the era of World War II, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union favored nationalistic propaganda that refuted the essence of modernism’s ambiguous culture. Rather, these regimes turned towards art with straightforward messages that could not be left to interpretation. Through the…

WWI was the most horrific battle that the world had ever seen to that date. Starting in 1914, a battle between the the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente, it was the most deadly war to date and finally ended in 1918. The Americans were a great entity, and will be the main focal point on in this paper. Because of Britain 's trade and tactics, America was drawn into a war they didn’t want to get involved in. The immediate cause of the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand,…