POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ethnic Nationalism, Wannsee Conference, Generalplan Ost
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Stanford encyclopedia"s inaccurate war: involves applicaion of force to provide certain end: becoming outdated, as not all ward involve states. Wars deined by: scale/size, methods: physical batleield, industrial targets or civilian populaions, services employed (army, navy, air force, efects. Wars easily started, hard to stop & control. As war goes on, acts become more atrocious. War & us: religion, of our centuries (2 great world wars, secular = have been the worst in our world. Long reach of wwii: division of germany & europe, cold war, american supremacy, human rights revoluion 1960s, postwar prosperity. Germans burned 530 towns & killed 16,367 ppl. War"s goal = winning, but became = killing civilians: hitler"s aims. Revisionist: to ight treaty of versailles for more beneit. = total enslavement, to dominate europe & world. Murder mentally handicapped, jews (enthusiasic support in palesine by grand. Us & canada supported eugenic sterilizaion of mentally handicapped. Men join military, then have family.