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    Serbs targeting Bosniak and Croatian civilians, or the Sudan government against Darfuri citizens, there has always been a threat to a certain group of people. Holocausts have happened all around the world, but they are avertible. In the Nanjing Massacre, around 300,000 Chinese citizens were raped and killed by Japanese troops. It occurred from December of 1937 to January of 1938 in Nanjing, China. This is located west of Shanghai, near the Jiang River. Key components vary throughout each genocide

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    The Munich Massacre

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    The 1972 Olympics were supposed to show that Germany had changed as a country. They were supposed to be “The Happy Games” but instead are remembered for the massacre of the Israeli athletes. The Munich Massacre has changed how terrorism is dealt with in different countries and in the Olympics as a whole. The Massacre occurred on September 5th, the eleventh day of the 1972 Olympics. Eight Palestinian Terrorists that belonged to the group Black september killed two Israeli athletes and took another

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    A Crime Against Humanity

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    position on this issue is that when a crime against humanity has begun countries and the UN should intervene and put a stop to it. In 1937 300,000 soldiers and civilians were killed and almost 80,000 women were sexually assaulted, this was the Nanking massacre. The Japanese just defeated the Chinese in a bloody battle and now they were going after the capital Nanking. The leader of China was fearful of the Japanese as they were a strong army so he ordered the army to flee and left the untrained army. The

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    The Nanjing Massacre

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    The Nanjing Massacre occurred for six weeks, having fell to the Japanese, they began their infamous massacre also known as the rape of Nanjing. This sequence of events not only affected Nanjing historically, but the effect is has on current day Nanjing is nothing less than astonishing. Throughout the six weeks an estimated 300,000 soldiers (Controversial, as there are different numbers thrown around) and civilians were killed. The Nanjing massacre is known as one of the most destructive mass murders

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    The Munich Massacre during the summer Olympic of 1972 in Germany was a very tragic time where a lot of innocent athletes and people lost their lives because of a war going on between the Jews and the Arabs in in the middle east. They were in a political war that included religious implications as well. It all started out in Jun of 1972 where the Israel military was launching attacks against the Arab terrorist refuges living in the southern part of Lebanon. Since the Israeli military was attack people

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    The Boston Massacre

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    The Boston Massacre The tension between the colonies and Britain was nothing new. There were several occasions where the colonies became greatly infuriated with the unpleasant treatment they were receiving. Prior to the year 1770, much of the outcry came from the acts passed by the British government, such as the Stamp Act, Quartering Act, and Declaratory Act (“A Timeline of the American Revolution”). Even though the colonists were infuriated, it would take something more to push them over the edge

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    well-educated delegate from Massachusetts, faced many roadblocks leading up to the Revolution, most importantly, the Boston Massacre Trial. Adams risked his life by defending the British during the lengthy trial, as most of the colonist’s opinions plummeted when they learned he was defending those who killed their own. At the end of March, reaching a couple weeks since the bloody Boston Massacre, a grand jury brought Captain Preston and his men to plead them guilty for murdering the colonists. After searching

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    Research Question In what ways has the Nanking Massacre (1937-1938) been mythologized in history? Abstract Through an investigation of the existing accounts of the Nanking Massacre (1937-1938), this extended essay endeavours to address the research question: In what ways has the Nanking Massacre (1937-1938) been mythologized in history? By drawing upon the main arguments and framework that Paul Cohen developed in his book “History in Three Keys” in order to assess the Boxer Rebellion, this

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    colonists and the British soldiers erupted into fighting in an event known as the Boston Massacre. The Boston Massacre was a significant event in the American Independence movement. The source of the conflict with the British troops and the Bostonians was the Townshend Act in 1767, three years prior to the massacre. The primary sources in this collection of documents are of different accounts of the massacre: a pamphlet of the testimony of William Wyatt, an article from the Boston Gazette and Country

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    Which lead to shots being fired by the soldiers. In document A by Paul Revere it was titled “The Bloody Massacre”. In my opinion that was far from the truth, the Boston Massacre of 1770 was not a massacre because the colonists had weapons and attacked the British troops first. Also there was a every low loss of life which goes against the definition of a massacre, a massacre (insert massacre

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