PART 2: CONFLICT

GENOCIDE: The Holocaust

• The holocaust was one of the largest genocides in the history of mankind.
• From 1933 to 1945, 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis.
• Almost 2/3 of the Jews in Europe were eliminated.

Causes

• This was caused by the horrible ideas of Hitler
• He believed that the Jews were an inferior race, and that they should not live.
• He got much of Germany to follow him in his beliefs.

Results

• The result of this was the near-complete extermination of Jews in Europe.
• Jewish people were forced to move out of the continent
• Communities were destroyed, entire cities demolished by the Nazis.
• It completely changed the political and physical features of Europe
• It changed Judaism from a common religion to a scarcely practiced one.

Civil War: World War II

• World War II was the bloodiest war in history.
• More than 50 nations were involved in this war.
• Over 20 million soldiers and 40 million civillians were killed
• After 6 years, the allies eventually overtook the axis powers
• They won the war and gave many people in prison camps freedom

CAUSES/Countries Involved

• The main causes were the Holocaust and Hitler wanting to gain control of all of Europe.
• Some of the countries on the Allies side were the USA, the Soviet Union, and China
• some on the Axis side were Germany, Japan, Italy, and Hungary.

Results

• This war greatly impacted the area.
• There were 27 million people lost by the Soviet Union
• All the Jews left in concentration camps were forced to leave the area
• It changed the landcape; many cities were destroyed with bombs.

Conflicts over ideas: north and South Korea

• North and South Korea are countries that share a border, but are different.
• In the Korean War, North Korea invaded the South multiple times

Causes

• South Korea has a right-wing government, and many freedoms.
• North Korea has a dictatorship, and they have hardly any freedoms.

Results

• The result of this was the division of Korea into two seperate counrtries.
• Now, the countries are completely different.
• The division has caused a change in peoples' beliefs in the region.
• Some people in North Korea believe in the government that they have
• most people in the south do not think it is right

Results

• The cultures have split.
• In South Korea, they are advancing and modernizing their way of life
• in North Korea, they are not advancing at all.

Oklahoma City bombing

• One of the worst acts of terrorism in American history.
• The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City was destroyed by a truck bomb
• Killed 168 people and injured more that 680 others
• Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were the two people convicted of this bombing

Results

• This event and the 9/11 attack changed the way that we travel
• And it changed the amount of security in a given area.
• Now, there are many restrictions on things that you can travel with
• There is now much more security on important or large buildings.
• The bombing also changed the physical landscape

Results contd.

• It caused mass destruction to the government buildings and other structures all around it.