My Lai Massacre

My Lai Massacre

This massacre happened during the Vietnam War on the 16th of March, 1968. American soldiers brutally killed the majority of population of the southern Vietnamese. They started off firing at villagers. They were mostly innocent people. 500 people including women, children and elderly were killed in the massacre.  Many were sexually assaulted, tortured or manipulated. 

They were looking for Vietnam soldiers and since they didn't find them, they killed hundreds of innocent Vietnamese. People who were present at the event said that they didn't see anyone who appeared to be the age of a soldier. The innocent people didn't resist to the U.S. troops. It took three days to bury all the dead bodies. Later the U.S. board charged 14 officers of crime related to this event and only one officer was convicted.

Questions:
1) When did this happen?
2) How many officers did they charge?
3) How many innocent people did they kill?

Heinrich Himmler

 Heinrich Himmler was a military commander and a leading member of the Nazi Party. He joined the Nazi Party in August of 1923. After the SS commander, Erhard Heiden, gave up his position, Himmler took this position as an SS officer with Hitler's approval. In 1933 he set up his first own concentration camp at Dachau. 

He was in charge of the Final Solution, the plan of to kill all Jews. He was known as the second most powerful man in Germany at this time. He was given the responsibility of the security of the Nazi empire. During his time with the Nazi Party he was head of the SS and was also Hitler's bodyguard. When he got appointed to the head of the SS, there was 300 men in 1929; by 1933 he had 33,000 men. He was named chief of German police in June of 1933. 

Questions:

1. When did he join the Nazi party?

2. What was the name of his first concentration camp?

3. What was he in charge of?

Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was signed on the 28th of June in 1919 in the Versailles Palace near Paris. This treaty ended the war between Germany and the Allied Powers. This was signed exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which started World War I. It took a lot of effort to come to an agreement with the German Government. It caused Germany to lose 25,000 squares miles of land of territory and 7,000,000 people.