War Conspiracy

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War Conspiracy

• Global Initiative
• By Evelyn, Melissa, Lucas
• 2008

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Definition of War

• The waging of armed conflict between enemies.

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The Effects of War

• War costs both huge amounts of money and
  casualties.
• Territories are destroyed and there are shortages
  of food and other supplies.
• The application of weapons, the destruction of
  structures and oil fields, fires, military
  transport movements and chemical spraying are all
  examples of the destroying impact war may have on
  the environment. Air, water and soil are
  polluted, man and animal are killed, and numerous
  health affects occur among those still living.

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World War II

• Took place between 1939- 1945.
• Main causes of World War II rise of nationalism,
  militarism, and the problem of unresolved
  territorial issues.
• World War II killed more people, involved more
  nations, and cost more money than any other war
  in history.

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The Government

• Europe was divided into two groups The Axis
  powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan. The Allies
  were Britain, The Unites States of America,
  China, and France.
• The Axis powers ruled many empires that dominated
  large parts of Europe, Africa, Southeast and East
  Asia, and the Pacific Ocean.
• The involvement of the Allies was inevitable
  because they were either under a direct threat of
  invasion or invaded by the Axis Powers.

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The People

• 70 million people served in the armed forces and
  about 17 million combatants died.
• In the U.S it brought millions of married women
  into the workforce.
• There were about 60 million people who died and
  40 million of those people were civilians.

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The Children

• Nearly 2 million children were evacuated from
  their homes at the start of World War II.
• The first experimental gas chambers were used on
  German children who were mentally incapacitated.
• During the Holocaust about 1.5 million children
  died, including over a million Jewish children,
  tens of thousands Gypsy children, and German
  children who had mental or physical disabilities.

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The War in Uganda
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The History of the War

• For the past 21 years, the Lords Resistance Army
  (LRA) and the Ugandan government have been waging
  a war that has left nearly two million innocent
  civilians caught in the middle
• The LRA can be traced back to a woman named Alice
  Lakwena, who said that a spirit visited her and
  told her to overthrow the Ugandan government.
• Their group gained momentum, she was exiled from
  Uganda and her supposed cousin Joseph Kony took
  control of the group and made it into a rebel
  army.

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ThePeople

• In 1996, as a response to the LRA attacks in the
  villages, the Ugandan government forcibly evicted
  thousands from their homes and relocated them
  into overcrowded camps in hopes of providing
  protection.
• But over a decade later roughly 1.5 million
  individuals live in these camps and struggle to
  survive among the effects of abject poverty,
  rampant disease, and near-certain starvation.

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The Children
The biggest effect of the war on children has
been the appearance of Night Travelers tens of
thousands of children forced to hide in the night
to escape being killed or abducted by rebels. If
captured by the rebels, these children of war are
torn from their families and forced to become
soldiers under the maniacal leadership of Joseph
Kony .
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The War Against Terrorism
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The War in Iraq

• a.k.a Operation Iraq Freedom.
• Began March 20,2003.
• The main reason for invasion was the idea that
  Iraq possessed and was building nuclear weapons
  in violation of a 1991 agreement.
• The U.S. went in and captured Saddam Hussein, who
  was later executed. It was said Saddam Hussein
  was cooperating with al-Qaeda to launch terrorist
  attacks on the U.S.
• Other reasons for the invasion stated by
  officials included concerns over Iraq's financial
  support for the families of Palestinian suicide
  bombers, Iraqi government human rights abuses,
  spreading democracy, and Iraq's oil reserves.

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The Government

• Saddam Hussein was the president of Iraq when the
  U.S. invaded.
• He fled into hiding as the U.S. began their
  search for him.
• In the U.S. the people supported the war efforts,
  but once they realized it was going to last much
  longer than they thought it would be, some turned
  to anti-war protests and activities no longer for
  the war.
• Others thought the U.S. was no longer needed in
  rebuilding Iraq they wanted the soldiers to come
  home.
• Some people think that the costs of war can be
  used for more important aspects like poverty.

Consider the costs...4,681 per household.
1,721 per person. 341.4 million per day.
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The People

• Violence erupted, many soldiers targeted by road
  side bombs.
• Growing sectarian violence, and continuous
  anti-coalition attacks took place.
• Rebellions who dont want the U.S. in Iraq to
  create a democracy attack soldiers and military
  bases, not only killing Americans, but innocent
  civilians.
• The new government the U.S. has enacted in Iraq
  has asked that U.S. troops withdraw, but
  President George W. Bush has stated that he is
  not ready to further withdraw any more troops.

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The Children

• Malnutrition among young children in Iraq has
  nearly doubled since the United States led an
  invasion of the country.
• Roughly 400,000 Iraqi children are suffering from
  "wasting," a condition characterized by chronic
  diarrhea and dangerous deficiencies of protein.
• By one count, 60 percent of rural residents and
  20 percent of urban dwellers have access only to
  contaminated water.
• Currently, the killer of children in Iraq is
  gastroenteritis, caused by drinking contaminated
  water. One in eight children do not see their
  first birthdays.
• 4,500 children are dying every month.

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Bibliography

• http//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A809
  -2004Nov20.html
• http//www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
• http//www.ibiblio.org/prism/Mar97/iraq.html