... I don't feel there is any such thing as a "good war". The closest thing to a "good war" would be when no one was hurt and that is just impossible. World War 2 killed more people, destroyed more property, disrupted more lives than any other war in history. World War 2 might have brought the United States a few benefits but not ... because you never know whose going to use them or who has them. It just causes many more problems than we need. Another reason people feel World War 2 was a "good war" was because we came out on the top after. We came out as being known as a "power house". Being...

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... I don't feel there is any such thing as a "good war". The closest thing to a "good war" would be when no one was hurt and that is just impossible. World War 2 killed more people, destroyed more property, disrupted more lives than any other war in history. World War 2 might have brought the United States a few benefits but not ... because you never know whose going to use them or who has them. It just causes many more problems than we need. Another reason people feel World War 2 was a "good war" was because we came out on the top after. We came out as being known as a "power house". Being...

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... the Roma should not be excused due to the prosecution of the Roma before the Holocaust. Although the Roma were prosecuted before the war, much this pre-war prosecution was not life threatening, and mostly constituted of laws preventing Romas from living in certain places. Unfortunately during WWII, it is estimated ... a certain extent Roma had worse treatment then the Jews due to the fact that Roma were subject to many experiments at the beginning of the war. SS leader Himmler was fascinated by Roma. He set up a department called the Radical Hygiene and Population Research Center. Its ma...

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... Europe Jewish people were discriminated against and murdered, in the United States Japanese Americans and Negroes were isolated and treated harshly. During World War II Japanese Americans were portrayed as a racial nest of spies and sabotagers. The government was convinced the Japanese people were traitors to ... the entire Japanese community. These groups spread rumors about sabotage creating fear in the public's mind, especially in the early months of the war. California State Attorney General Earl Warren stated " To believe the absence of sabotage by the Japanese population was proof ...

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... was probably one of the worst wars in the history of mankind. Among all the other wars in history, the Second World War had the highest death toll of 55,714,000 people from1939 to 1945. During World War II, two most dreaded and memorable events took place, the Holocaust and the Japanese-Canadian internment. The Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of ... six million Jews by the Nazi regime during World War II. When Hitler was elected to power in 1933, he immediately started to persecute German Jews. Many innocent Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust and this is why this ....

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... glorifying the greatness and omnipotence of their God as creator of the universe (Fisher, 2002). As the Jews lived under foreign rule such as Persian, Greek, Parthian, and then Roman, Judaism became somewhat open to cross-cultural religious borrowings. Concepts of Satan, the hierarchy of angels, reward ... conflict (Williams, 1737). In 65 C.E. when Josephus returns to Jerusalem to find revolt beginning and the Antonia fortress captured. He advocates against war. He found his people set upon insurrection, and was forced, against his better judgment, to make common cause with them. The firs...

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... Egypt, and the surrounding areas to let them know that the Jews were under the protection of Rome. The Jews were ruled under the Persian Empire until Alexander the Great extended his empire across the Middle East. Seluchid and ptholemy, two of Alexanders generals controlled in afterwards. Antiochus IV ... a Senate hearing the Senators all surrounded Caesar and killed him. With Caesar's death Rome was left without a ruler and it lead to another civil war. Mark Anthony and Octavian, the adopted son of Caesar defeated Brutus and Cassius, two of Caesars murders. After Anthony and Octavian di...

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... these luxuries were a fragment of the past. People had to concentrate on receiving their ration of food for the day, not on the latest style of Persian Rug. The Jews not only dealt with survival, but also with their own personal caste system. As soon as they were tattooed with their prisoner ID ... old to fight off dysentery. While the Jews were of no military standing, many of the prisoners of Auschwitz had been captured as prisoners of war. The lower ranking soldiers were thrown into the mud with the rest of the Jews, while the higher ranking officers were given lighter workloads and ...

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... The Jews asked Britain for the creation of a Jewish nation in the area of Palestine. Not wanting to loose the support of either side during World War I, Britain sent a letter to a Zionist supporter making promises to both sides. This letter was known as the Balfour Declaration. But since the two ... live with each other, the Balfour Declaration was unworkable. Britain then partitioned the country (http://www.levitt.com/misc/israel_history.html/beck-521). After World War II, a tired Britain referred the Palestine-Israel problem to the United Nations. The United Nations couldn"t partition ...

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... the arabs to go into an uproar of protests. The British then limited the immigration per year. Then came WWII (1939-1945). In this war, came the Holocaust (the mass execution of over 6 million jews). After the war was over, it lead to more immigration, the British then decided to hand the problem over to the U.N., the U.N. decided to let the Jews ... they divided Palestine into 2 parts: Jewish Palestine and arab Palestine. The jews finally got their own land in 1948, this is also when the first war occurred between the arabs and Israelis. The jews won this war, as well as all of the lat...

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... Jewish into one people? Just what is Judaism and what does it mean to be Jewish? How can we give a single definition of Jewish civilization? There are African Jews and Persian Jews, Jews in Israel and Jews in the United States, British Jews and French Jews, Russian Jews and Indian Jews. All are a part of the Jewish civilization, yet all have ... ...

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... important book of the Bible believed in by both Christians and Jews alike. It tells a fantastical story about a young orphaned Jewess that rose up to become the Queen of the Persian Empire and in turn saved her people from being massacred. It is a patriotic and remarkably historically accurate story of how God allows truth and justice reign supreme over evil and ... ...

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... festivals. Hanukkah celebrates the victory of the Macabees over the Syrian king Antiochus IV in 165 B.C. It is also known as the "Festival of Lights". Purim celebrates the tale of Persian Jewry's deliverance by Esther and Mordecai. Significant times in one's life are celebrated by the Jewish religion. At the age of eight days, a male Jew is publicly circumcised (berith milah ... ...

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... a number of holidays that honor their history and God. For example, the holiday of Purim is a festival honoring the survival of the Jews who were marked for death by their Persian rulers. One of the most known Jewish holidays is Hanukkah. Hanukkah is known as the Festival of Lights. It is an eight-day festival beginning on the 25th day of ... ...

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... to the Spaniards was carried on by the Islamic cultural expansion. Such as the expanding of urban centers of the Islamic world to almost "cross fertilize" with Arab, Jewish, and Persian traditions. This helped Muslims to advance their legal, political, and, scientific thoughts. Greek philosophers were translated into Arabic. "Greek philosophy and science began to infiltrate into Islam". This was essentially ... ...

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... wanted action but had prepared no proposals. All they left with from their meeting with FDR was an agreement that the president would warn Germany of war crimes. This was the only meeting FDR granted to Jewish leaders. In December 1942 the UN Declaration was signed by the 3 main allies and ... the governments of 8 occupied countries. It was a strong warning that retribution would come to those responsible for war crimes. Proposals began to arise to help save the Jewish people. For every proposal there was a reason not to attempt it. The State Department conducted ... in large part for pe...

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... beginning to get underway. However British intelligence was the focal point of all news coming out of Occupied Europe. Early reports from aerial reconnaissance, returning soldiers, escaping citizens, prisoners of war, neutrals, as well as reports from Polish, Dutch, French and Czech intelligent services, all reported 'unofficial stories' - the State Department viewed them as rumors - about Nazi plans of ... idea of temporary harboring of refugees in the U.S., based on security reasons and the critical food shortage. They ruled out rescue operations because that would require diversion ...

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... proposal for the establishment of separate Arab and Jewish states within Palestine (Mann 133-137). The Arab States denounced the proposal and vowed to wage war against the Jewish settlers in Palestine. Riots broke out in Jerusalem and the British took measures to keep the United Nations forces out (Mann 138). ... King Abdullah wanted to annex the Arab portion of Palestine onto Jordan (Noble 103). Golda agreed to the proposal in order to avoid going to war with Jordan. To attend their last meeting, Golda dressed in Arabic clothing and drove through the streets of Jordan at serious risk to...

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... him to kill all the Jews; therefore that was the reason for his attempt to kill all Jews. The Rwandans, before engaging in a civil war amongst their people, started massacring amongst themselves. Hitler's orders to kill all Jews and those that oppose him were based on the fact that he thought ... were the superior race of the world and the Hutu did it supposedly because of the assassination of the president. Adolf felt that Germany was humiliated after World War 1, so he decided to choose a scapegoat for all of Germany's problems. That scapegoat was the Jews, although anyone that wasn't ...

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... (and American and Japanese) ideology that the extermination of other "races" was appropriate" (Lindqvist 276). Although Hitler exterminated about six million Jews, his main goal during the war was German expansionism. In determining when the Germans planned the extermination of the Jews, one must take a look at the Wannsee Conference. The purpose of the Wannsee Conference was to ... ;threatened the purity and even the very existence of the Aryan race" (Dawidowicz 269). Evidence suggests that the extermination of the Jews was an effect of the Germans declaring war. According to Lundqvist,...

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... be to gas them. The new duties of the SS were to implement the "Final Solution, " which was the extermination of the Jews. Before the war had begun, some of the soldiers had been nurses, farmers, salesmen, and factory workers. Few of them had criminal records. They were not chosen because they ... base of the victim's brain. Similar guns were used to kill cattle. Bodies were disposed of by either burial or cremation. In the beginning of World War II, Jews and other prisoners were executed by shooting them and letting the bodies fall into a mass grave. Then a bulldozer was used to cover t...

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... of an event that took place after their victory. The holiday is not as important as some other Jewish holidays because Jewish people don't celebrate war, but it is still a important event that is celebrated. A little over two thousand years ago in the area we know as Israel there ... stopped. Antiochus ordered his army to kill the Jews out of anger because he was still raged about the Roman King making him quit the war. Thousands of Jews were killed. He then outlawed all Jewish worship and their scrolls were confiscated and burned. All Jewish traditions were forbidden, ... violators wo...

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... together with over three million Jews (Chao 7)." The Jewish community was not the only people under persecution by the Third Reich during the Second World War. ""The heaviest blow to humanity" he [Hitler] once said, "was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are ... was flown and air dropped over German and Soviet occupied territories, so that the occupants could be aware of the events of the war. The Pontifical Aid Commission and the Office for Information were two agencies that were created to coordinate relief work; both agencies were under...

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... basic historical facts. While Christopher Browning's "Ordinary Men" tells the story of Police Battalion 101, and how they play a role in the Second World War in Europe. Both of these books outline what kinds of items a civilian would be subjected to during wartime. This ranges from persecution, certain death, ... or to begin made to mobilize to help one country's war effort. In Brown's Ordinary men he shows in detail the sequence of events and individual reactions which may turn ordinary men into killers. To understand ... escape from the trains or were somehow overlooked when the initia...

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... Jews. The government hid this information from the public, making them Nazi helpers. Executive order 9417 was set up to help the Jews from the war department. They refused to bomb the death camps because it would just kill all the Jews instead of helping them. However, the United States did ... bomb fuel tanks. It caused the Nazis to release some Jews to freedom. Roosevelt then established a War Refugee Board in New York City. Not too much help was offered in the beginning because Roosevelt had an election coming up and did not want ... to ruin his chances for Presidential status for th...

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