They needed the Americans, and they used an ingenious tactic to cause the Americans to join the war: the death of its own civilians. The civilians on the ship, warned by the Germans, refused to listen to a warning, causing their death on the Lusitania. The total number of Americans who died represented a very small portion of the United States’ total population. The American public over-exaggerated the sinking of the Lusitania and overreacted to the death of very few people compared to America as a whole. The British blockade kept all trades away from the Germans, including food (Ghost Liners 124).Yet, when the Germans retaliate, the Americans hate them for it.
Hao Nguyen Period 3 December 22, 2014 APUSH Readings Chapter 19 1) A-2 2) The South Scorns Mrs. Stowe (1852) 3) Author: Southern Literary Messenger of Richmond 4) Author’s Position: Against Mrs. Stowe’s tale 5) Bias: They were from the South so they opposed this story because the Northern abolitionists supported it. They were also critics who wants to stand up for their people beliefs 6) Arguments: * We shouldn’t put emphasis on the abolition actions since they don’t deserve it * The abolition attacks has spread to other countries * The abolitionists and Mrs. Stowe’s tale has influenced the minds of the people that knows nothing about slavery to only think about its negative effects * The tale
This was not genocide for the sake of ethnic cleansing, but one in which huge numbers of people were slaughtered in hopes that those who survived would stand a better chance under conditions. Racism, poverty, greed, and religion all played a role in the genocide of Darfur. A government that does not value human life was causing this depression. The remote region of Sudan especially that of Darfur, made Humanitarian Aid difficult. This area of Africa is not near any large bodies of water in which large ships could navigate.
Elie Wiesel on the other hand incorporated various literary techniques to convey the message of Nazi’s brutality towards their Jewish prisoners. He referred to the haggard Jews as “wild beasts of prey, with animal hatred in their eyes…” (Wiesel 95). The Jews were reduced to behave like beasts due to lack of food and water. The Nazis purposely failed to provide the Jews with sufficient supplies. Withered and disgruntled, the Jews seek to fulfill the needs that had been deprived from them.
Troy Voss Rachel Woodward English 110.429 Nov 5, 2009 The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 The Dawes Severalty Act is a very controversial topic in the United States history. Its goal was to oppress the Native Americans by taking their land and worked to decimate their culture completely. Despite what were considered good intentions by the government at the time, the Dawes Severalty Act caused incredible destruction of the Native American culture and the entire tribe dynamic. Looking back into the act’s legacy, historians found that it was unsuccessful in the assimilation Native Americans. However, the Act did manage to suppress many of the Native American practices for the time being and its land allotment policies had long-standing implications.
Between April 18 and April 28, the dead were buried. At first the SS guards were made to collect and bury the bodies, but eventually the British had to resort to bulldozers to push the thousands of bodies into mass graves because they were too many. After evacuating Bergen-Belsen, British forces burned down the whole camp to prevent the spread of typhus. Judy Rosenzweig prisoner of Bergen Belsen describes the liberation: "All of a sudden out of the blue sky we saw tanks rolling into the camp…We had no idea what kind of tanks they were. Is it the Americans?
The defoliant tactic outcome was that the defoliants failed to even uncover any of the trail and that the defoliants blew into farmers crops destroying them also it went into the water supplies and poisoned the water killing people and also causing deformities in babies. The search and destroy tactic failed miserably, as soon as they cleared out an area more Vietcong would replace the dead one’s also there was the incident at my lai where they were given false information about a town, flown in and then massacred everyone even the women and children. Overall the tactics didn’t work because they both failed to do their
It wiped out entire families while others were forced to dig the graves of their own family members. Morgues were so overwhelmed by the morality rates that bodies began to pile. Business in the U.S. came to a halt because of the amount workers stricken with the flu. Mail was not delivered and trash piled up due to sick workers. Crops could not be harvested because there were not enough workers and even state and local health departments shut down as a result.
What does one do when the beliefs they hold dear are challenged by the very government that is supposed to be protecting them? What about if horrible acts are being committed by the government you are loyal to, but are being kept silent? Does one go against their own beliefs for their government or do they stand up for what they believe in? Is ignorance an excuse for participating in a group that committed horrific crimes against humanity or is everybody responsible for what they do and what they know? In Nazi Germany many members of the party that were simply civilians were unaware of the terrible fate that had awaited their Jewish neighbors and friends.
Horrific injuries were inflicted upon everyone in the blast radius, upon women and children, and the lasting effects have still yet to fade. The psychological effects are unknown as well. Many survivors were most likely traumatized by seeing their entire lives turned to ruin, seeing family members dead, seeing their entire community turned to ashes. Thousands of years of culture, food, and literature was lost at the insensitivity of U.S. generals. Even though “The American government estimated 1,000,000 lives lost in a war”, civilians did not deserve to suffer for the sake of others (Zenger).