What was the Nazi Soviet Non Aggression Pact?
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It was an agreement between Hitler and Stalin that said there would be peace between Russia and Germany. Hitler wanted to conquer Poland, which was one major part of the agreement. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact was signed in August 1939. Hitler's main reason for the Non-Aggression Pact was so that when Britain declared war on Germany after he invaded Poland, Russia stayed out of the way. He only had to fight Britain, and France (so far) instead of Britain, France, and Russia. About two years after the pact was signed, Hitler broke the terms of the pact, and attacked the Soviet Union.
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In 1936, Jews were banned from all professional jobs, effectively preventing them exerting any influence in education, politics, higher education and industry. On 15 November of 1938, Jewish children were banned from going to normal schools. By April 1939, nearly all Jewish companies had either collapsed under financial pressure and declining profits, or had been forced to sell out to the Nazi-German government as part of the "Aryanization" policy inaugurated in 1937.\n\nAs the war started, large massacres of Jews took place, and, by December 1941, Hitler decided to completely exterminate European Jews. In January 1942, during the Wannsee conference, several Nazi leaders discussed the details of the "Final Solution of the Jewish question" (Endlösung der Judenfrage). Dr. Josef Bühler urged Reinhard Heydrich to proceed with the Final Solution in the General Government. They began to systematically deport Jewish populations from the ghettos and all occupied territories to the seven camps designated as Vernichtungslager, or extermination camps: Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Maly Trostenets, Sobibór and Treblinka II. Sebastian Haffner published the analysis in 1978 that Hitler from December 1941 accepted the failure of his goal to dominate Europe forever on his declaration of war against the United States, but that his withdrawal and apparent calm thereafter was sustained by the achievement of his second goal—the extermination of the Jews.\n------------------------------------------------------------\nJews were the main victims. One could say their role was to be rounded up like cattle to concentration camps or death camps.\nAdded:\nAs for communities, they were started in other countries where the Jews fled to. After the second world war.
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The end of Cold War gave rise to hopes that the legacy of a nuclear arms race and confrontation between the U.S.A. and Russia was coming to an end. Both countries had the opportunity, and took steps in the early and mid 1990's, to create a new, non-deterrence based nuclear relationship that would allow for dramatic nuclear reductions.  The consolidation and dismanting of a large tactical nuclear arsenals, the cooperative denuclearization of Belarus, Ukraine and kazakhstan, the symbolic de-targeting initiavie, and most of all, the negotiation of the START i AND II agreements created further hopes for a radical de[emphasis of nuclear weapons in the bilateral relationship.\n\nDomestic events in Russia and the evolution of the post Cold War International Security structure, however thwarted efforts to persuade Russian Parliament to aprove the START II AGREEMENT...
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Soviet Union did not like west germany because of world war 2. West Germany was seen as the enemy to soviet union.
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Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the control of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), or Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as chancellor and head of state. Nazi Germany worked in close proximity with and was allies with Imperial Japan (under Emperor Hirohito) and Fascist Italy (under Benito Mussolini) under the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis, which participated in World War II against the allies, led by the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union.\n\nThird Reich, used as a near-synonym for Nazi Germany, is the English for the German expression Drittes Reich, roughly Third Empire, but the second word is seldom translated. It refers to the government and its agencies rather than the land and its people.\n\nThe Nazi Party deliberately attempted to combine traditional symbols of Germany with Nazi Party symbols in an effort to reinforce the perception of their being one and the same. Thus the Nazi Party used the terms "Drittes Reich" and "Tausendjähriges Reich" ("Thousand-Year Reich") to connect the glorious past to its supposedly glorious future. In speeches, books and articles about the Third Reich post 8 May 1945, the 1000 years is often juxtaposed against the twelve years of the Third Reich's existence. The terms were used only briefly and dropped from propaganda in 1939, officially to avoid persiflage, possibly also to avoid religious connotations.\n\nDuring their twelve year rule, the Nazis sent massive armies throughout most of continental Europe. Ideologically, the Nazis endorsed the idea of a Greater Germany, with Berlin renamed Germania as its capital, and integration of all people of supposed pure Germanic origin. This policy manifested itself in the systematic extermination of an estimated eleven million people of racial minorities within Germany and majority populations in some other European countries (Jews, Gypsies, Slavs), political opponents (liberals, communists), social outcasts (the disabled, homosexuals), and politically neutral groups and religions (such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons), as well as opposing inhabitants and tens of millions of others as a direct or indirect result of combat.\n\nChronology of events\n\n    * Weimar Republic (includes the events leading to Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany in 1933)\n    * Hitler's rise to power\n    * Gleichschaltung (for the legal measures taken by the Nazis to establish their dictatorship)\n    * World War II (with a focus on military events)\n    * Axis Powers\n\n[edit]\n\nPre-War Politics 1933-1939\nBerlin during the Nazi era.\nEnlarge\nBerlin during the Nazi era.\n\nIn the wake of the First World War and subsquent economic depression, many German voters began turning their support towards Adolf Hitler's radical Nazi Party, which made great promises of an economic, cultural, and military renewal for the fledgling country. On January 30, 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg after attempts by General Kurt von Schleicher to form a viable government failed. Hindenberg was put under pressure by Hitler through his son Oskar, as well as intrigue from former Chancellor Franz von Papen following his collection of participating financial interests. Even though the Nazi Party had gained the largest share of the popular vote in the two Reichstag general elections of 1932, they had slim majority in parliament within the Papen-proposed Nationalist DNVP- NSDAP coalition. This coalition ruled through accepted continuance of un-Constitutional Presidential decree issuance under Article 48, prevalent in all Chancellorships since October 1931.\n[edit]\n\nConsolidation of power\n\nThe new government installed a dictatorship in a series of measures in quick succession (see Gleichschaltung for details). On February 27, 1933 the Reichstag was se
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"Franklin Delano Roosevelt\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fr32.html\nWinston Churchill\nhttp://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1\nJoseph Stalin\nhttp://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_stalin.html\nMeet the "Big Three". These were the heads of the main allied countries who participated in the Yalta Conference in February of 1945. Yalta is a city on the coast of the Black Sea which was then part of the USSR and is now part of Ukraine. Their mission was to discuss post-war arrangements for Europe. Some of the agreements made at the conference included plans for dividing Germany into four zones of occupation (American, British, French, and Soviet), plans for war crimes trials, and plans for war reparations. Read some of the original documents pertaining to the conference."
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Neither side realized how close we came to a nuclear war, not until afterward.  The Soviets admitted that an order to one of the submarines to fire its nukes was disobeyed, sort of a reverse role as depicted in the movie Crimson Tide.
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The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT, or, much more rarely, NNPT) is a treaty, opened for signature on July 1, 1968, to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. The vast majority of sovereign states (188) are parties to the treaty\n\nplease make an attempt to learn how to work with Google and Wikipedia
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No it was not.  It singled out Germany for punitive measures and not the Austro-Hungarian Empire for such measures.  It so financially was hard for Germany and led to WWII.
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The US established the New Deal. Germany appointed Hitler as Chancellor.
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I am assuming that you are referring to Hans Frank, who was a top advisor to Hitler in the National Socialist Party.\n\nFrank was a Reichsminister without portfolio and later Governor-General of occupied Poland.  He was tried and sentenced to death in Nurnberg.  He was held responsible for the execution of the "final solution", genocide of Jews.  He was hanged in 1946.  I don't want to dignify the life of this truly abominable creature with further comment.
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13th November 1945\n\nhttp://www.un.org/Overview/unmember.html
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Nazi regime\n\nNazism was the ideology held by the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, commonly called NSDAP or the Nazi Party), which was led by its Führer (leader), Adolf Hitler. The word Nazism is most often used in connection with the dictatorship of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 (the "Third Reich"), and it is derived from the term National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus, often abbreviated NS). Adherents of the Nazi ideology held that the Aryan race were superior to other races, and they promoted Germanic racial supremacy and a strong, centrally governed state. Nazism has been outlawed in modern Germany, yet small remnants and revivalists, known as "Neo-Nazis", continue to operate in Germany and abroad.\n\nOriginally, Nazi was invented by analogy to Sozi (a common and slightly pejorative term for the Nazis' main opponents, the socialists in Germany). The Nazis from the era of the Third Reich rarely referred to themselves as "Nazis", preferring the official term "National Socialists" instead. Nazi was most commonly used as a pejorative term; however, its use became so widespread that, currently, some Neo-Nazis also use it to describe themselves.
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B) and D) and my factual reasoning:\n\nHitler had argued in Mein Kampf of the necessity of acquiring new territory for German settlement (Lebensraum) in Eastern Europe. \n\nTo hardline Nazis in Berlin, the war against the Soviet Union was one of a struggle of Fascism against Communism, and the Aryan race against the "inferior" Slavic race.
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There are volumes of photos taken by the alied forces as they were liberating the camps. There are also many written accounts from eyewitnesses, both internees and liberators.\n\nThere are the camps, or what is left of them.\n\nThere are internal German State Department (and SS) memos (many now in the Yale library) that mentin movement of Jews and others.\n\nIn 1920 the German Eugenics Society published an article titled: "The Permission to Destroy Life Unworthy of Life".  Written by Karl Binding, A court judge, and Alfred Hoche, a psychiatrist.\nAs for pictures, see below link to Google image search.
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There were two main places communists got involved in World War II.  The first, obviously, was Russia.  They were, ironically enough, our allies in the fight against the Nazis.  The second was the underground movements in occupied countries.  Since communists were banned by the Nazis, they already had a network of secret cells and communication systems.  They were the ones, after all, who invented the Molotov Cocktail and other guerrilla fighting techniques.  And there is no denying that some of them were very brave and took terrible risks in the underground fighting.  This also clearly gave them some key positions when the war was over, and they took maximum advantage of the fact.
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Cold War, term used to describe the post-World War II struggle between the United States and its allies and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and its allies. During the Cold War period, which lasted from the mid-1940s until the end of the 1980s, international politics were heavily shaped by the intense rivalry between these two great blocs of power and the political ideologies they represented: democracy and capitalism in the case of the United States and its allies, and Communism in the case of the Soviet bloc. The principal allies of the United States during the Cold War included Britain, France, West Germany, Japan, and Canada. On the Soviet side were many of the countries of Eastern Europe—including Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, East Germany, and Romania—and, during parts of the Cold War, Cuba and China. Countries that had no formal commitment to either bloc were known as neutrals or, within the Third World, as nonaligned nations (see Nonaligned Movement). \n\nAmerican journalist Walter Lippmann first popularized the term cold war in a 1947 book by that name. By using the term, Lippmann meant to suggest that relations between the USSR and its World War II allies (primarily the United States, Britain, and France) had deteriorated to the point of war without the occurrence of actual warfare. Over the next few years, the emerging rivalry between these two camps hardened into a mutual and permanent preoccupation. It dominated the foreign policy agendas of both sides and led to the formation of two vast military alliances: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), created by the Western powers in 1949; and the Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact, established in 1955. Although centered originally in Europe, the Cold War enmity eventually drew the United States and the USSR into local conflicts in almost every quarter of the globe. It also produced what became known as the Cold War arms race, an intense competition between the two superpowers to accumulate advanced military weapons.