To what extend can ultranationalism lead to crimes against humanity, war crimes, and/or Genocide?

DEFINITIONS:

ultra nationalism can be defined as having a perfect image of your nation and doing whatever it takes in order to fulfill that ambition or desire that they have. 

Crimes against humanity are widespread or systemic attacks against a civilian population including murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture,rape or sexual slavery etc...

War crimes willful killing, torture or inhuman treatment; willfully causing great suffering and intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population or against those who are involved in a humanitarian or peacekeeping mission. 

Genocide the killing of members of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group deliberately inflicting on the group condition of life calculated to being about its physical destruction. 

HOW CAN ULTRANATIONALISM LEAD TO CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, WAR CRIMES AND/OR GENOCIDE??

When you take a look at ultranationalism and crimes against humanity you can quickly see that in the majority of cases ultranationalism does lead to crimes against humanity, war crimes and that these concepts are interconnected. some examples that prove this statement could be, Genocide in Turkey, Famine in Ukraine, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki-1945.

The Famine in Ukraine  (1932-1933)

Genocide in Turkey 1915

 The main religion in Turkey was Islam, but under the Ottoman empire there was still a minority of Armenians that were still there in Turkey and practised there religion. These Armenians that had chosen to affirm their identity had faced discrimination from the Turkish people who didn't want the Turkish people to practise there religion. things started getting worse in the late 1800's when some of the Armenians thought that it would be a good idea to fight for self determination. The Turkish people lost this fight, and along with this came another outcome which was the killing of Armenians by the Turks. then in 1914 an ultra nationalist party issued the 'ten commandments'. the ten commandments  included the following: 

• Exterminate males under 50, priests, and teachers but leave the girls and children to be islamized.
• families who succeeded in escaping would have all form of connection cut off them from their native place.
• kill all Armenians in the army

the ultra nationalism in the Turkish people led them to have a perfect image of their nation which in this case included having no Armenians. The Turkish people where so blinded by this unrealistic "perfect" nation that they started killing all Armenians and didn't even think once about what they were doing was wrong.

Genocide in turkey

Famine in Ukraine( 1932-1933)

Most of Ukraine was ruled by Russia for about almost 150 years. After the Russian revolution, Ukraine tried to declare independence, but were unsuccessful. The Ukrainians farmland was a huge part of them and the farmers were  one of the strongest supporters for independence. In the late 1920's when Joseph Stalin took control of the Soviet union the first thing that he did was take the Ukrainians farmland. Stalin said that the farm land was to belong to the state and that they had to work on collective farms. The Ukrainian farmers did not like this and did much to resist like to burn there crops and kill livestock, rather than giving up the farm land itself. What Stalin then did fed up  was that he started shipping the Ukrainian wheat to Russia to be sold in foreign markets and to increase on cash, which Stalin wanted for the union. He sealed the Ukraine's borders which meant that no one could go out and buy food and no food would be getting in. Anyone caught hiding crops, grains  or not co-operating with Stalin was executed, or deported to labour camps. By the end of 1933 granaries of the soviet were full of wheat, but three to seven million Ukrainians had starved to death or were killed by soviet authorities. Not many people also knew what was happening because the soviet authorities censored newspapers,and while Ukrainians were dying Stalin was getting praised in the newspapers, and saying that people should join the soviet Union.

Wheat burning. many Ukrainian farmers burned their crops just so they didn't have to give in their farmland. 

Ukrainian women starving for food, in this case wheat.

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)

policies were made to support national interest. Many people argued that dropping the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki back in 1945 was the united states national interest .The U.S president Harry S. Truman finally made a decision and the decision was to drop a bomb , because he thought that it was important to end the war and save as many lives as possible. The plan was to drop the bomb and completely destroy  all of japans enterprises that included, docks, factories, and communication systems.  some of the creators of the bomb thought that it would be useful to show a little demonstration to show the Japanese leaders that these weapons are actually dangerous. General Dwight D. Eisenhower who would later would go on to be president disagreed to this and was uncertain about the decision to drop the bomb because he believed that Japan was already defeated. 

Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima 

Cemetery in Hiroshima in which holds the remains of the millions that died on August 6 1945 due to the atomic bomb. 

Ultra nationalism...

What is Ultra nationalism?


Ultra-nationalism can be defined as an extreme form of nationalism. Ultra-nationalists are usually fanatically loyal to there own nation and hostile and racist toward other nations.Some examples of Ultra-nationalists could include Nazi-Germany, Hitler, Stalin-Russia, Martin Luther King Jr.and so on.

 Hitler and the rise of Nazi Germany also propaganda. 

Stalin-Russia. Another example of ultra-nationalism and propaganda.

How does Ultra nationalism Develop?
some factors for ultra-nationalism to develop are: countries in crisis, charismatic leaders,ultranationalist views and values.

When you look at all the example of ultra-nationalism you find that they all have one thing in common. That one thing that they have in common is a single person and that persons vision, ambition or desire to have a perfect nation. That once person will lead  to ultra-nationalism to develop, because they will make sure that, that dream that they have comes true, and they will do anything to make sure that it does come true. You can take for Martin Luther King Jr. He used his ' have a dream' speech to achieve his desire.

Martin Luther King Jr. giving his well known charismatic ''I have a dream'' speech, that is  still remembered till this day.

Below is a video of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his speech.

Another example is Hitler and the Nazi- Germany ultra-nationalists development who used very strong power to get what he wanted. After the treaty of Versailles had been signed. In the treaty there was a war guilt clause that basically blamed everything on the Germans. They were blamed for everything and even alienated due to the reason that the Germans had lost some of there land due to this clause. This alienation and this sense of defeat you could say developed ultra-nationalism. This defeat for the German race developed a certain rage inside the Germans, and Hitler used this rage, this desire to regain the land that they lost and in a way the respect that they lost, and formed the Nazi group. he used propaganda to convey his message to capture the attention of others and use them and there emotions to get what he wanted.

Hitler giving a speech to a crowd.

above is a video of Hitler making a speech. in this video you can see a lot of ultra nationalism.

 The video above. is a great way to show ultra-nationalism. Adolf Hitler was a very alluring speaker, and that charisma is what got that attention of the audience and made Hitler a ultranationalist. 

The war guilt clause from the treaty of Versailles, that can be considered a starting point to ultra nationalism in Germany.

How have People Responded to Ultra nationalism?

Ultra-nationalism has and effect on everything in a country, social, economic, cultural, spiritual- the main thing is that it doesn't only have an effect on one thing. Ultra-nationalist should be considered weak human beings because they target the fear or people and manipulate people by propaganda spreading hatred. around the world civics have found it very hard trying to over come extreme nationalists values and beliefs. ..

some ways people respond to ultra-nationalism are the following:

• Appeasement
• War

APPEASEMENT

Is basically just giving into demands. That's what Germany did when they signed the treaty of Versailles. Germany kept expanding at rapid rates  and in 1938 the British, french, and Italian Prime minister's decided to meet Hitler. Before the World war I Germany was in control over this region, but due to the treaty of Versailles they had to give it up. Hitler promised not to expand anymore and the takeover went without with problems.as you now, not everyone was for this idea of appeasement and one of these people were Winston Churchill . He thought that appeasement would fail, and in the end he war right it did fail. 

Above is a picture of the expansion of Germany

WAR

September 19 1939 was the day that Hitler invaded Poland. This was also the time when poor Britain and France realized that the appeasement was not entirely working as they had hoped, and what this lead to war another world war. World war II had begun on September third when the 2 countries declared war on Germany, later on it was confirmed on September tenth that Canada would also be at war. Causing the death of many civilians, and soldiers yet once again.

Britain and France at war with Germany

soldiers getting ready once again to fight for their nations during world war II

Well there you have it ! What is ultra-nationalism, how does it develop and how have people responded to it?

Chapter 5 Vocab

Yo yo yo!
Chapter 5 vocab is all you need to know
The words are quite simple
Easy and Quick
Without a doubt you'll know them in a click
National interest is for the people
Where everyone's interest should be equal
Where in a society there are peace keepers
Keeping us safe
Until a negotiation can be made
The next word means armed forces maintaining peace
In a way that crime doesn't increase
Everyone I'm talking about peacemaking
K! Now lets move on to a policy---
Plan of action to guide of influence decisions
There are 2 different policies, so we avoid collision
Domestic policy is a decision about what to do in a country
Including laws and fees
Foreign Policy is a decision about relations of other countries
Becoming friends and maybe even opening new opportunities
Last but definitely not least
We move to gross domestic products
You wanna know what it means?
A years of value of goods n services produced in a country honestly
There you have all the vocabulary
Which in your head you should now carry
Until next time I guess you'll see
Manvir and Nicky
PEACE!