Anna Wilson Ms. Keri Hamrick HIS 201 June 6, 2015 Review of 1776 1776 by David McCullough is published by Simon and Schuster. In 1776 David McCullough perfectly illustrates how the American army was always on the edge of defeat during the year of 1776. The story was limited to only one year with little background information; this causes confusion. Those who do not have a good understanding of the American Revolution will have an especially difficult time deciphering what the book is describing.
C. Introduction The Rwandan genocide lasted three months and in those three months it is said that 1 million Tutsis were killed. The Holocaust lasted 4 years and 6 million Jews were killed. Bearing this in mind it would be expected that The Rwandan genocide should be extremely well known because of the loss of lives, impact and brutality of the event and the similarities it holds with The Holocaust. The fact is that the Rwandan Genocide is not very well known and is not thought to be in the same category as The Holocaust, where in fact it is.
The Armenian and Rwandan genocides are the same in ways because they both occurred during or immeadility after a significant war occurred. They are different because they have different reason why they were attacked and targeted. Both of them had a significant loss of life during the genocides but there is still one major thing that makes them different. They were attacked at different time periods and the real reason why they were attacked is still greatly unknown today.
All the genocides have one thing in common which to eliminate a certain group for stupid untrue reasons, with only the motives being different. The Holocaust might be the most documented genocide but like all other genocides such as Bosnian and Bangladesh genocide, equally evil and heinous to the full max. In this essay, will be compared the Nazi Holocaust and Bosnian genocide. Like all genocides, the two genocides has extremely high number of people killed, tortured and put under evil actions. The motives behind the Holocasut were to create a “perfect race” which is the Aryan race in the world by eliminating the ones that are not, jews being inhuman and other races being sub-humans in the eyes of the Nazi.
Similarly, both had tremendous mass murders, however, they differ in the individuals targeted. The Holocaust victimized against people that Hitler found not useful in the new society. The entire German military had targeted Jews, gypsies, mentally and physically disabled, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals (Rosenberg). Hitler found that certain groups were not needed in the society that he was creating and the Jewish were the most famous rejection. In opposition, the Cambodian genocide had targeted smart and intelligent people.
The immense brutality those were faced with during the Holocaust, left most with such deep scarring and trauma, still plays an ongoing role in their lives, even now, 77 years after it has ended. Although the Holocaust has ended, the devastating effects of genocide are still shown and taking place throughout several other parts of the world, the Rwandan genocide being one of them. The Rwandan genocide was a huge massacre of over 800,000 people. During this time, hundreds of thousands of Tutsis (14% of Rwandan population) were being attacked by the Hutus (85% of Rwandan population) as the Hutus felt they were being discriminated against and that the Tutsis were being favored by the Belgian government. This being said, the Hutus decided to take action and rebel against them, causing an exploding massacre across Rwanda.
A genocide is the the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation, the Holocaust and the Cambodian Genocide are examples of this. After the Holocaust, in 1945 the United Nations realized that genocides were a continuously happening. They realized they needed to prevent genocides and global conflict in general. The Holocaust began on January 30, 1933 when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany and ended May 8, 1945 when the war officially ended.
The Holocaust and Darfur genocides are both huge turning points in history and we learn a lot from them. Both the genocides left millions of people dead for no reason. The cause of the Holocaust was the rise of the Nazis hatred and anti-Semitism. One cause of the Darfur genocide was the Black Arabs being discriminated against. Also Hitler and the Nazis convinced the people the Jews were responsible for the bad economic state.
Genocides, the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular group or nation, has affected various countries. Genocide not only brings a war but also problems like decreasing economic affairs and social problems. When genocide starts, society overlooks economic affairs like their agriculture since they focus on the war. In the case of Rwanda, once the genocide had begun many farmers fled or were killed. "All was
500,000 tutsi and hutu were slaughtered, even worse was the 2.8 million jews that were killed in the holocaust.. Although this extermination was a lot, it was nothing compared to the Holocaust, where roughly nine million people died. What was unique about the Holocaust was that the victim groups were all considered undesirable by Hitler, whereas in the Rwanda genocide, the victim groups often swapped places with the perpetrators. The Rwanda Genocide came to begin in 1896 when Germans began the rule in Rwanda; the people that were mostly killed were Tutsi and Hutu, and in the Holocaust, the Germans mostly killed the Jewish. These two massacres had some similarities, but there are also some differences.
History is a magnificent subject. Its magnificent because we can always learn from it, yet it is constantly expanding, introducing new ideas and new philosophies. With these ever-changing ideas and philosophies, we go through some horrific times. As discussed in the book “To Kill a People” by John Cox, humanity will do awful things in an attempt to spread their ideals. That is why I believe that the four major genocides to plague this past century have more in common, than they have different.
The Rwandan genocide vs. the Holocaust “Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.” Jack Schwartz. Genocide is mass murder, it happens in all parts of the world. A common known genocide is the Holocaust. Where a group known as the“Nazis” (lead by Hitler) murdered more than six million people (many were Jewish).
It is the mass killing, sterilization, and annihilation of a specific group of people. The Holocaust is the most widely known mass killing in history and is widely looked down upon but that does not mean that it cannot happen again. Genocide and Holocaust are two terms that are widely similar but they also differ in some aspects. A Genocide is defined as the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially
The Bosnian genocide took place in Europe in the Turkish area and it lasted about three years. The Rwanda genocide was in Africa and lasted only 100 hundred days. The beginning of the genocides from each country started when both their leaders died because after this they lost control over the people in their country. Bosnia split because of problems with their territory and Rwandan people were terrified of the militia groups in the country.
The genocide was an after affect of the scramble for Africa by European countries who help no regard for the people who already lived their. In the scramble for Africa many European countries raced to make claims on land in Africa that was already lived on by natives, they mistreated the natives and killed and enslaved many of them. This was prevalent in Rwanda when the belgians imperialized the land. The belgians sent the Hutus who were the majority of the population into slavery and lead to mass deaths of their people. But they lead the land through another ethnic group the tutsis who made up about 15% of the population compared to the 85% population of Hutus.
