What event in world history promtped the United Nations to create “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” in 1948?
marilynn07 Teacher High School – 9th Grade eNotes Editor The entire era of “the Hitlerian Wars”, beginning with the Sino-Japanese War, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia and the Spanish Civil War was an era in which warfare was directed at civilian populations as a matter of official policy. The full outbreak of what we call World War II led to the deaths of millions of civilians who were attacked simply to break the national will. This was followed by both the Japanese and Germans applying terror, imprisonment and horrifying torutres and conditions to civil populations, largely driven by racist ideals. The Nazis ran infamous concentration camps, in which unknown millions were imprisoned and approximately eleven million were killed. About five million were Jews from all across Europe, but other minorities such as Gypsies and religious minorities such as Jehovah’s Witnesses were also victims. The largest group were ethnic groups considered “subhuman” by Nazi ideology, and political oppone
