America's Contribution To The Holocaust

“We are not makers of history, we are made by history”- Martin Luther King JR. In this essay three defining moments that contributed to where America stands now will be discussed and how these events were significant to our world history today. Focusing on different events and historical moments that the US has gone through, the journey begins well before 1776. American and even non-American citizens have been taught that so many different events have a major impact on who were as people now and what we still have to look for. Moments like the Holocaust that happened in the year of 1933, Women’s right to vote in 1920 and the Brown v. Board of Education case year of 1954 all signify how transitions have been made and what contributed to these

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was one of the most powerful and infamous dictators during the 20th century. He rose to power in the National Socialist German Workers Party after World War II and took control of the German government in 1933. Hitler’s establishment of concentration camps to place Jews and other groups such as Roma (Gypsies), people who had disabilities, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and Afro-Germans. They also identified political dissidents, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, and so-called asocial as enemies and security risks because they consciously opposed the Nazi regime or some parts of their behavior did not fit Nazi perceptions of social norms that he believed to be a threat to Aryan supremacy. The Nazis were not acting alone and they were also being supported and assisted by people from within the countries

It took nearly a hundred years for the activist and reformers to actually win that battle in the right way. The campaigns had its struggles and were various disagreements about how they wanted to run everything. On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to our constitution was finally validated. Allowing women, now like men, to be given all rights and duties of a citizenship. The woman’s suffrage campaign began before the Civil War during the 1820s and 1830s. States had elongated the franchise to all the white men, not caring about how much money they had or property they owned. Many women played a role in all sorts of reform groups that were increasing rapidly across the United States. Some were temperance clubs, religious movements and moral-reform societies and anti-slavery organizations. According to History, Art & Archives, “The first gathering devoted to women’s rights in the United States was held July 19–20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York” Nearly about 100 different people attended this meeting and two-thirds that came were women. This statement shows that their gatherings were somewhat beneficial to the people fighting and even men were ones to show up to and support these meetings. Though there were different disagreements, most women still stood together and sought out to complete their mission. While some women stayed in