Wednesday, December 14, 2011


WWI brought about many new ways of dealing with unwanted pressure from other nations. As the quote states the use of brutal and murderous force became the new way of dealing with problems. The Paris Peace Conference which was signed in 1918 was held to discuss the post-war world where leaders of 32 states attended, but the conference was dominated by the five major powers responsible for defeating the Central powers.  The Treaty of Versailles which was a result of the Paris Peace Conference put most of the blame for WWI on Germany, which started the rise of Hitler.
  After the war the Central Powers were now on the bottom and were fighting hard to try and regain their status of before the war. Economic situations and emotions of citizens allowed for the rise of powerful and aggressive leaders come to power. Hitler had the ability to persuade and manipulate people into agreeing to his beliefs which were a major factor in how he gained power and created the Nazi army.
 Hitler was power hungry and that is what drove many of his actions which is a major difference between Nazi Germany and the United States. He in a sense believed that if he erased an entire race that would put him one step closer to his goal of world dominance. I don’t think the US or any other nation had the same intentions as Hitler did. I think it can be said that the US, Britain, and many other nations committed atrocities but not on the same scale as Germany.