Argumentative Essay: A World Post War

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A World Post War Once seen as a flourishing area, Europe consisted of countries with the ability to promote vast industrialization and enhance the philosophical and political ingenuity of the world. However, after the Great War, the narrative that Europe was an area of perfection or innocence started to change as chaos began to take form. Though European nations were no stranger to internal affairs and wars at the time, what made World War I different was its ability to change the fabric of European life for years after. This began in the overall measures that each side was willing to take in order to win the war. Moreover, what once was seen as an enhancer to society, referring to expedited industrialization, quickly changed into a tactic …show more content…
Since the country continued to struggle the opportunity to seize power was made available, and in 1922, 4 years after the end of the war, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. This brought with it the complete change of the country as Nazism was introduced and Jewish owned companies began being destroyed. Then, not long after becoming Chancellor, Hitler incorporated the Nuremburg Race laws that consisted of laws considered to be for the protection of German blood and honor. However, what was viewed as protection of honor was actually a removal of Jewish protection as the laws denied Jewish students enrollment in schools, eventual loss of citizenship, and the outlaw of interracial marriage. Unfortunately, for the rest of the world this was just the beginning of what was to be a terrifying regime, and as Hitler’s authority increased through the late 20s and early 30s, so did the worry of many other European countries that began to see his desire to regain territory as a threat. After once being considered a shell of itself post World War 1, Germany, driven by revenge now served to be one of the most prominent causes for the continuing degradation of European