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World War II DBQ Essay

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World War II had many outcomes, but not all of them affect the world today. Part of the outcomes that do affect the world today are affecting the world in different ways, for example the cold war, war crimes, division of Germany. One of the most important ones is the creation of UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights), but one can argue that the most important one is is the creation of Israel. Israel is very impactful today as it affects the world politically, economically and socially, and the UDHR is supposed to prevent discrimination, slavery, and inequality. The UDHR was formed on December 1948, (History of the Document) three years after the war ended. After the war and the creation of the United Nations, the U.N decided to make …show more content…

Israel gained its territory in wars but a big part of it was from the six-day war in 1967 where Israel conquered the east bank including Jerusalem from Jordan, Gaza strip and Sinai from Egypt (after a few years they gave it back to Egypt in order to have peace), and the Golan Heights from Syria (HISTORY: The State of Israel). The idea of a Jewish country was formed a long time before the Holocaust happened, due to the Holocaust the U.N, which made the decision of creating the country, agreed to the idea because of the discrimination of Jews. As a result, they thought that they deserved a country of their own. Since Israel was formed it participated in seven wars and two Intifadas. The creation of Israel is the most important outcome of WW II. By important I mean affecting people’s lives, Israel is affecting Israelis everyday because of the conflicts with Arab countries, for example Iran. Iran is one of the biggest enemies of Israel. It was making nuclear weapons that were planned to bomb Israel until it had an agreement with U.S and Israel to stop making them in order to cancel the sanctions imposed on them by the world. However, according to the military attaché of Israel in Brazil Col. Raed Kador, the danger did not pass because this agreement is only for eight years. Another way Israel impacts the world today is that it is second place in startups and ideas, Israel invented

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