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Also known as the ‘Night of Broken Glass’, Kristallnacht occurred throughout Nazi Germany from the 9th-10th of November 1938, and was a set of coordinated attacks by the SA and civilians against Jewish people and their property. Synagogues were burnt down and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed. The attacks were carried out in response to the assassination of Ernst von Rath, a member of the German embassy in Paris.  Kyoto Protocol (The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change): An international environmental treaty that lays out binding obligations to industrialized countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. 190 countries as well as the European Union have agreed to the treaty. The Kyoto Protocol was enforced in 2005 and was the first instance that developed countries accepted their obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with explicit and binding stipulations within the treaty.
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Also known as the ‘Night of Broken Glass’, Kristallnacht occurred throughout Nazi Germany from the 9th-10th of November 1938, and was a set of coordinated attacks by the SA and civilians against Jewish people and their property. Synagogues were burnt down and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed. The attacks were carried out in response to the assassination of Ernst von Rath, a member of the German embassy in Paris.
  
 
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== External Links ==
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*[http://www.holocaustandhumanity.org/kristallnacht/events-leading-up-to-kristallnacht/ The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education]
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*[http://www.ushmm.org/research/research-in-collections/search-the-collections/bibliography/kristallnacht United States Holocaust Museum Information Portal]
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*[http://www.holocaust-history.org/short-essays/kristallnacht.shtml What was Kristallnacht?]

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Also known as the ‘Night of Broken Glass’, Kristallnacht occurred throughout Nazi Germany from the 9th-10th of November 1938, and was a set of coordinated attacks by the SA and civilians against Jewish people and their property. Synagogues were burnt down and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed. The attacks were carried out in response to the assassination of Ernst von Rath, a member of the German embassy in Paris.

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