Poland

The Treaty of Versailles was put together hurriedly in a manner that was vague hence exposing the Allies’ ideological rift in the conference. The Germans refused to accept war-guilt clause under Article 231 and the terms of reparations (Henig, 1933). This led to resentment over the Treaty by the Germans hence fueling nationalism. The issue of re-drawing the map in Europe and the Middle East was a heated debate amongst the Allies. France demanded that the Saar region and Rhineland were to be…

in their path, or an average citizen just following orders? It is this final option that Browning chooses to focus on for this book and the choices made by these Ordinary men. The book begins by giving the reader statistics of the Nazi Holocaust in Poland, then going on to describe how the genocide began in the city of Bialystok and other close towns as they escalated from humiliations and beatings to murdering large groups in the woods and leaving them in mass graves. The chapter ends with a…

their lives in a war that caused so much destruction. During the war the Jewish population of Warsaw, Poland were persecuted and killed for their identity as Jews. In Jerry Spinelli’s Milkweed, we are shown a glimpse of the past during the horrors of World War II through the lives of three fictional characters Misha, Janina and Uncle Shepsel. During the war the Jewish people living in Warsaw, Poland were stripped of their identity and were treated as less than human beings for what they believe…

The film Hidden in Silence is based on a true story. In Przemysl, Poland, during WWII, the city comes under Nazi control. The Jews are sent to ghettos. Catholic teenager Stefania Podgorska (called Fusia in the movie) sneaks 13 Jews into her attic while raising her little sister. Every day, they risk execution--by smuggling food and water to the silent group living above them. The film is not very explicit in the violence against the Jews; instead, it conveys a message of hope for mankind,…

hat nuclear warfare had. Nuclear power is much more powerful than the heavy artillery that World War I fighters used while in the trenches. The Holocaust of Jewish people by the Nazis is exclusive to World War II while the Ottoman Empire’s, or Turkey’s, genocide of Armenians was exclusive to World War I6. The sequence in which the two World Wars took place varies greatly. World War I started when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, as the country wanted to reaffirm its right to…

Irena Sendler was born February 15, 1910 in Otwock Poland as Irena Krzyżanowska. She grew up with her father who was a doctor and her mother. When she was only 7 years old her father got sick and died. Her and her mother lived together until Irena went to college at Warsaw university. She was expelled because she stood up for her Jewish friends. She sat with them when the teacher told her not to. When the teacher told her to move her response was “today I am Jewish“ She was a nurse and loved…

predicted that some outside source not related to the event itself would affect the way a person would remember the event and that was correct for both studies. Questions that were asked from both studies were manipulated by the researcher. The study in Poland mentions the phrasing of her questions, but does not mention that aspect being important. One of the questions in the questionnaire was “How intense were your emotional reactions relating to…?”. There could be a possibility that with that…

Factors That Led to Post War Red Scare Tia Brown AMH 2020/2042 June 11, 2017 After World War II, an anti-communist movement emerged in the United States. This period, which was known as the Red Scare, emerged after the war in the mid-1940’s and lasted into the 1950’s. During the Red Scare, the fear of communism was prevalent both within the government and among private citizens. There were a variety of factors, both international and domestic, that led to the post war Red Scare, and…

Vladek Spielgelman was born and raised in Poland where he was living a comfortable and ordinary life married to his wife Anja. Spiegelman, as well, had a son, Richieu Spielgelman. Unfortunately, Vladek's life was about to change to an unimaginable horror. 1939 Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany which marked the beginning of World War Two, after Poland invaded Vladek, and his wife Anja were taken to partake in forced labor in the ghettos of Poland,…

mentioned as “the beginning of World War II” are July 7, 1937, when the “Marco Polo Bridge Incident” led to a prolonged war between Japan and China, and September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, which led Britain and France to declare war on Hitler’s Nazi state in retaliation. From the invasion of Poland until the war ended with Japan’s surrender in September 1945, most nations around the world were…