Treaty of Waitangi

Based on the United States’s past history in intervening in the affairs in other nations, it is best that this nation’s “moral responsibility” should lie right here on the home front. In addition to the U.S.’s interventions being notorious for blowing up in our face, there are several domestic issues that could be addressed if the same amount of attention was placed on them instead of on nations halfway across the globe. American intervention in seemingly hostile situations in foreign nations…

The year was 1914 in Europe and it’s neighboring continents. 4 years of wars that resulted in nearly sixty million casualties, total. In a time when European countries had gone for 40years without a war, they glorified military power. When one country created a large army another country created a larger one and the process repeated itself. Soon, countries became nervous and started to form an alliance. The main three were France, Britain and Russia who agreed to help each other if they were…

In the early 1800s alliances were introduced to hold peace in Europe, but ended up leading more war. Otto von Bismarck mainly used war to ‘unify’ Germany and keep peace all over Europe. In this, he thought France wanted revenge and no peace, so he formed a Dual Alliance with Austria-Hungary; Italy later joined along with them creating the Triple Alliance. After this, Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914. Russia then decided to join and team with Serbia against Austria-Hungary for an…

The word ‘determined’ is part of a morally charged concept that asks us to consider what actions and inactions are complicit ‘enough’ to be held responsible for the Holocaust. However, the word ‘bystanders’ is a complicated term, with a rich and varied composition. It has developed into a central part of the Holocaust consciousness as a perjorative term. The actions and inactions of various actors before and during World War II can almost all be linked in some way to the Holocaust. Yet, it is…

the horrors of the Third Reich. Unfortunately, this paranoia is not unwarranted, nor is it irrational to suggest that “Hitler” could rise again. Hitler took advantage of a very bad time in Germany. People were suffering economically, crippled by the Treaty of Versailles and the depression that followed the war. Nationalism was at an all time low - people had no fondness towards their weak and war torn nation. Hitler was able to exploit this crisis and turn it into his political platform,…

You may look at different aspects of your life, think that you have a happy life and that you are a good person; that may be true because we are currently civilized. On a much larger scale, humans are not naturally good, the darkness of humans’ hearts are masked by civilization. In The Lord of The Flies, by William Golding, he describes that no matter how much we try to disguise our evil - which we are born with - it is destined to resurface when we have either lost control of ourselves or put…

There were many things that led to World War I, such as migration, imperialism, disease and sickness, labor. It impacted the U.S in many ways such as other countries joining together to go against the United States. Many countries wanted and needed help from the United States. The U.S went into war because many countries started pointless and unnecessary fights that led to this war. For example, migration had a big impact on the war. Everyone in the southwest United States began moving west…

World War II because the Treaty of Versailles left them bitter, Adolf Hitler wanted more power than he had, and he wanted to destroy all Jewish people. First, the Treaty of Versailles left bitterness in Germany. The Germans were angry about everything they had to give up so that other countries could have peace. The Germans were given an enormous debt to pay so that they would not be a threat right after World War I (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, n.d., Treaty of Versailles 1919,…

Third Reich (1933–1945). She explains how German children were taught to idolize Hitler. Also how the children was used for labor and as soldiers in this time period. Although World War I ended in 1918, the German's still experienced loss. The Treaty of Versailles imposed a “victor’s peace” on the Germans. The Germans were banned from building their military. They were also required to make repair payments to the victorious powers. By 1930, a economic depression added to the hardships of the…

the Entente allies that acquired the least amount of restrictions in the Treaty Of Versailles. The allies — France, British Empire, United States, Belgium, Italy, Japan — were opposed to the Central powers, and eventually the Central powers surrendered to the Entente. The most significant member of the Central powers was Germany. They became the most restricted country after the Treaty Of Versailles was initiated. The Treaty Of Versailles was meant to prevent the occurrence of future wars, by…