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- 351: The Slave Trade
- ... one hundred million Africans died during the four hundred years of slavery. So many African lives were lost on the transatlantic voyage that the slave trade is often referred to by historians as the “Black Holocaust”. After the British abolished the slave trade in 1808 many Europeans continued to smuggle in slaves by ship, because there is “no commerce in the world which produces as many advantages as that of the ...
- 352: The Defeat of the Axis Powers
- ... since the Atomic Age, things just aren't the same. At first the U.S. had the upper hand, but do they really have the power now? We are in a decade of a "nuclear holocaust", which any day can trigger a massive destruction.
- 353: World War I
- ... After all, if there was no WWI, how could there be a WWII? Then we could blame the Germans for the massacres that resulted from WWII and the slaughter of millions of Jews in the Holocaust. Oh, wait, we already DO blame them for that. That’s because the Allies won WWII as well. Boy, the victors sure are quick to blame somebody else. It makes you wonder if we blamed ...
- 354: The Reign of Terror
- ... this nature have occurred with amazing regularity. Perhaps if the Reign of Terror was just one appalling moment of human cruelty, the world would be a different place. With such things as the Gulag, the Holocaust, the African Slave Trade, and even returning back to ancient times of the Assyrians and the Crusades, man has been known to slaughter his brethren wholesale. We are a race, bred with violence coursing through ...
- 355: Bombing of Dresdon
- ... some ways. Even though the allies lots respect on their home front, and subjected themselves to the criticism of the media, in some ways the result helped the cause. It is only logical that this Holocaust in Dresden lowered morale throughout Germany¦s civilians. Germany had to have realized at this point how terrible the war had become, and what its results could be. This is a terrible way to get ...
- 356: World War II
- ... was practically forced to allow Germany's occupation of the Sudetenland. Several early events occurred that warned the U.S. that they should prepare for war. One major thing that occurred in Germany was the Holocaust, which was a genocide against the Jews. Very few people approved of this, making it difficult for the U.S. not to act. Another major event was the fall of France. Germany, with its blitzkrieg ...
- 357: The Extermination of the Jews
- ... or in death camps. Hitler's ideas also spread across Eastern Europe. Germany's army spread into the Soviet Union and the Netherlands. More Jews were killed there. During the whole time period of the Holocaust as many as 5.8 million Jews died. Just because the fact they were Jewish.
- 358: Native American Genocide
- ... s dictionary defines the term Genocide as “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group” or the killing of a people. When genocide is spoke of, most people think of the Holocaust, or the troubles in Bosnia, but not all people realize that the Native Americans went through their own “genocide” except theirs wasn’t as outspoken and not as public as the others. Their silent genocide ...
- 359: Bioethics
- ... ethically and legally unacceptable. Nevertheless, there have been clear documented cases of abuse in recent times. An example of this is the experiments conducted by Nazi doctors on prisoners in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Does this mean that since there is potential for abuse, all experimentation should be banned? This would mean that society would be condemned to remain at the same level of knowledge (status quo)? Bioethically speaking ...
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