Ultranationalism In Ww1

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Source 1: Source One shows graves of different genocides and on each grave it says “NEVER AGAIN” but these genocides continue to happen. The graves also show the beginning and end date of the genocides to show that even though everyone is saying they will never let the genocide happen again it continues to happen over and over.This source demonstrates the idea of how people believe that because a genocide happened once if we bury it it won’t happen again which is proven to be false by the dates on the graves. The leaders of each of the genocides were ultranationalists because they felt extremely devoted to making their nation a set way and the leaders did whatever was necessary in order to get what they wanted, for example in the case of the …show more content…

These 14 Points could be separated into 4 categories; ending secret treaties, limiting imperialism, changing the borders to create new countries and creating a General Association of Nationalism. The 14 Points that Woodrow Wilson brought to Paris were based off of M.A.I.N. which was first introduced in World War One as what was thought to have started the war. These 14 Points show ultranationalism because they were created by one person who though they knew what was best for everyone, as well they were signed behind closed doors and the countries that were affected by these changes had no say in what was happening. SInce the 14 Points were agreed upon in secret meetings when they were brought to the countries to be signed large amounts of people became very frustrated and mad and began to blame the country's leader for ruining their country and this created all of the …show more content…

By prohibiting people of Japanese race into these areas the British Columbia’s Security Commision is showing an ultranationalistic attitude towards the Japanese, they give no reason as to why the Japanese cannot go into these 13 areas they just forbid them. It does say that the Japanese can get a written permit to go into these areas, which is a way of classifying them and the Japanese were being discriminated against by not being allowed in said areas. Both discrimination and classification are stages of Genocide and by telling the Japanese they can’t go in one area and slowly closing the Japanese out it could be seen as a genocide that didn’t kill anyone, instead they took ultranationalistic views and used some of the stages of genocide towards the Japanese. To the British Columbia Security Commision it is easier to force the Japanese people out of the areas instead of allowing them to live wherever they want because when they are forced to live together they are easier to

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