what do you think should be remembered most from world war 2 or the holocaust?

Question

this is for a history project so your guys' input would be nice :)

Answer 1

holocaust

Answer 2

I don't know about holocaust right now... (I forgot what that is...) but world war 2 I certainly know.
I think the lesson that we all learned from this event (the hard way) is very important to what we do every day. We should remember it so that 1. we can apply what we learned from that to our lives, 2. so that we don't make that horrible situation happen again, and 3. we know how the things we do that are bad like this can affect others.
I think the lesson learned is to learn to accept everybody for who they are. It's only natural that we are all different. We are thankful for the diversity in this world, and I feel pretty bad for the people that are not thankful.

Answer 3

There are so many important lessions that should be lurned, but apparently have not been. I think the biggest point was well summed up "With great power comes great responsibility." Our inaction at the beginning of the war cost all the world years of extra war and all of the horrors and pain that go with it. Had we entered earlier, it would have ended much earlier and with a much lower toll. ("An ounce of prevevntion is worth a pound of cure.") Had it not been for the attack on Pearl Harbor, we would never have gotten involved in time to save Europe, Asia or even ourselves.

Had we (the USA, the Dutch and the British) not been commiting "acts of war" upon Japan (millitary embargo of oil) without a decliration of war (what we used to villify Japan for doing after Peral Harbor) prior to the attack at Parl Harbor, we would probably not exist today. We forced Japan to attack us and then villified them for it. It is disgraceful that we had to sacrifice and trick our own people into doing what was not only right but also in our own best interests. The American propoganda surrounding the attack at Pearl Harbor was what we used to get our people to do what we should have already been doing. Fortunatley our leaders knew that we couldn't win an unpopular war. It is unfrotunmate that we had to sacrifice Pearl Harbor to make going to war against evil popular.

Vilification of groups is also something that we should be aware of. We vilified the Japanise, so we sent our own, inocent, citisens of Japanise heritage to internment camps (prisons) and stole their lands and properties. The Germans vilified the Jews, Gipsies and others. Currently we vilify people from the Middle East, South America and other places. The democrats villify the republicans and the republicans villify the democrats. Villification is a distortion! Beware all those who would villify others. Beware of those who will not stand up to those who villify others. Dehumanization and villification led to the holicost. It caused otherwise good people to do and allow unthinkable evil to be done. When you see people as less than human, you yourself become less than human.

Well, that's just my opinion. yours may vairy. Good luck on your history project.

Answer 4

I would be more than satisfied if future generations just remember from World War II two diaries. Anne Frank's and Tanya Savicheva's. To learn about the horrors of the war and the horrors of the holocaust. Bergen-Belsen and Leningrad.

Answer 5

We should remember that Hitler's deal with Stalin made WWII possible and therefore the holocaust.It is recalled that Hitler was inspired by the Turkish Genocide against the Armenians(which the Turks for the most part do not admit to).It is quite possible that Stalin was inspired by the Irish Potato Famine which killed over 1 million Irish,to starve 8 million Ukrainians to death with a man-made famine in 1933.

Answer 6

Clearly the most significant event of the war was the use of the atomic bomb. It completely changed the way politics worked and how wars would be fought for years to come. Even today nuclear weapons are a huge topic of debate. Think how everyone is afraid of terrorists or Iran getting nukes. We can thank the japanese for not surrendering and making us nuke them for that.

Answer 7

world war 2 shaped the world as we know it, whereas the holocaust was terrible but it was just a bunch of people being murdered. world war 2 has things to be learned from it and the holocaust just says discrimination is bad. world war 2 way more important consider the holocaust was part of it.

Answer 8

The dead.

Lest we forget is a by word for the suffering and death caused by war. Many historians tend to talk about technical details, weopon design, or strategy. There tends to be a feeling that deaths happen. Which is exactly why we should remember them. For every schematic for a Tiger II, you should have a picture of a dead civilian.

Luck

Answer 9

I can only pick one thing?

What should be remembered most is the men (and woman) who gave up their lives to help rid the world of one of its most historic evils.

Answer 10

To stop a Dictator before he gets to much power.