Project Theme #1 Rough Draft #3

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The aggression of the German Nazi party, and the Japanese Militarists played extremely important roles in the concepts of personal freedoms and human dignity. In 1919, Adolf Hitler had joined the National Socialist German Workers Party, or the Nazi Party, and soon after became the leader. In a similar fashion to Italian fascist, Benito Mussolini, Hitler became the the Prime Minister and created the third German Empire. In his new empire, Hitler wanted to enforce extreme nationalism and racial "purification." The concept of degrading human right comes into play here with Hitler believing that blond-haired, blue-eyed "Aryans" were a "master race," and that ethnicities such as Jews, Slavs and any nonwhites were "Inferior Races," and were only fit to serve the Aryans. These beliefs of Hitler's led to the creation of the concentration camps and horrific events such as the Holocaust. Hitler also believed in a militaristic expansion (a means of increasing living space and population), as well as the Japanese and their Prime Minister, Hideki Tojo, who had rendered the Emperor Hirohito powerless. Once they had seized power, the Japanese military launched an attack and took control of the Chinese province of Manchuria. The League of Nations, established after WWI, was created to prevent this type of aggression and to support the evolution of personal freedoms. After discovering what had happened in Manchuria, the League condemned Japan, which was a useless effort because they quit the League anyway. These events that degraded human rights and personal freedoms in Europe and Asia were what caused the Second World War.