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- 251: Cultural Standards Are All Tha
- ... if we were to take this theory seriously, then we could not condemn a society for being violently Anti-Semitic. (490) I feel this is a shortcoming in Rachels argument. Although the Nazis Holocaust campaign may seem intrinsically evil and immoral, by the Nazis reasoning it was completely the opposite. The Nazis actually believed that the Jews were a parasitic people, and thought them to be vermin. The ...
- 252: East Timor. Do They Have A Rig
- ... history of Indonesia, the blatant disregard for human life in the case of East Timor is one of the worst. The genocide that has taken place there has been the worst per capita since the holocaust. "The government tries to brush off these violations as isolated incidents of the work of a few poorly-disciplined soldiers, when in fact they are the by-product of a network of institutions, procedures and ...
- 253: The Diary Of Anne Frank
- ... to escape imprisonment in concentration camps by Nazi soldiers, where death was almost certain. Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. She and her family, along with four others, spent 25 months during World War II in an annex of rooms above her father\\'s office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the two years in hiding ...
- 254: Cival Rights Act 1964
- ... were still for all conventional purposes second class citizens (Mooney 776). World War II and its homecoming black veterans brought back even more unrest than before. After fighting the Germans and witnessing Hitler's racial holocaust blacks realized the inequality at home even more. The problem was helped by the migration of black soldiers out West to take advantage of wartime prosperity. The civil rights issue was now gaining a national ...
- 255: Western Expansion
- ... History of the United States says that John C. Calhoun and others lobbied for annexation of Texas against the protests of northern Whig traders. He says that the Whigs never forgave the South for the holocaust of the war. He talks of the Mexican war being a Southern conspiracy. He blamed the South for the Mexican war saying that excessive Southern democracy provoked Mexico into war; that in order to acquire ...
- 256: Atomic Bomb
- ... thinkers. This radical faction would not be against using weapons of mass distraction, and in the coming years with arms races and red scares, there would have been more of a chance for a Nuclear Holocaust. Also this introduction of the Atomic bomb, and its power, on a world scale, may have been just what was needed to keep the cold war in check, creating a balance of terror, in which ...
- 257: Atomic Bomb
- ... technology has advanced so much that modern-day Nuclear Weapons are up to one thousand times more powerful than those used against Japan. Such weapons could destroy entire states, and send the world into nuclear holocaust. There are also other ways to deploy them, for example, a small nuclear device inside a suitcase could destroy a city. Nuclear Warheads can be positioned on the ends of long-range rockets, expanding the ...
- 258: Adolf Hitler
- ... Hitler? Adolf Hitler was the Fόhrer (Leader) of Nazi Germany, the instigator of World War II and the driving force behind the attempt to exterminate European Jewry, otherwise known as the Final Solution or the Holocaust. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, in Austria, on April 20, 1889, the third son of Alois and Klara Hitler. The family moved around a lot, including to Linz, Leonding and other places. Hitler ...
- 259: Atomic Bomb
- ... York : Albany Press, 1987 Hersey, John. Hiroshima. New York: Random House, 1946. Johnson, Richard. "The Effects of the Atomic Bomb" http://www.nuke.com/wwII/ mnhttnprjt.him(19 May 1997) Sakuta, Brandon., Josephine Huang. Japanese Holocaust. Boston: Del Norte Pres. , 1987 . Thomas, Gordon. Enola Gay. New York: Stein and Day Publishers, 1977 Yamanaka, Shawn. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. New York: Galapagos, 1997
- 260: Origins Of The Cold War
- ... this war for the first time put to the test this new global system, where all wars fought from this point on would involve either or both of the superpowers, with the threat of nuclear holocaust always just over the horizon. The origins of the Cold War can be found by examining the history of the relations between Russia and the Western world between 1917 and 1949. There is a repeating ...
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