In a society filled with the consequences of hatred, war, and tomorrow’s uncertainty we arise at one conclusion; the need for peace. Peace is defined as the agreement or treaty between warring or antagonistic parties. In order to make peace in warring times, we must outline the key aspects. I will look into peace in education, religion, peacekeeping missions, and disarment.
“We move from crisis to crisis for two reasons…we have not been paying the price which that strategy demands”(Kennedy, 1960). In our past we have aimed and achieved peace at costly and hard times. In the Second World War there was a plan of attack, to ultimately ensure peace. The years following the Second World War saw Joseph Stalin’s rein to power. The United States of America had a plan for peace in this situation as well. The plan was very successful and its aim was to eliminate the threat of a communist take-over of the Western European states. If the Americans were unsuccessful, the communist takeover would cause much grief. The U.S.S.R would have a monopoly of exporting capital as well as having more resources such as nuclear weapons. Both United States of America and U.S.S.R have acknowledged that they have nuclear weapons. These weapons have the potential to cause mass destruction annihilating entire cities. It is an inevitable part of the world that violence and hatred will exist in this world. The aim is to mitigate this and aim toward a brighter direction, with less violent solutions. The Holocaust is an example of genocide. This genocide took away the lives of many people including Jewish, black, Roma, homosexual, handicapped and plenty more. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party, caused this tragedy. This was a hard time for the Jewish people whose lives would, from this point on, change forever. The aim was to eliminate or cleanse the earth of the Jewish population. Many death camps were in Poland, which were consistent with systematic
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