in a Cold War. For about forty-three years‚ although no war between the superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union was ever officially declared‚ the leaders of the democratic West and the Communist East faced off against each other. The war was a dreadful time for both sides‚ keeping all citizens on edge. Many major events in global history including the rise of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis were related to the Cold War. There were many fears of the Cold War that the American
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The Irish Civil War followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State‚ an entity independent from the United Kingdom but within the British Empire. The conflict was waged between two opposing groups of Irish nationalists over the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The forces of the "Provisional Government" supported the Treaty‚ while the Republican opposition saw it as a betrayal of the Irish Republic . Many of those who fought in the conflict had been members of
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American Civil War American Civil War‚ was a four-year war (1861–65) between the federal government of the United States and 11 Southern states that asserted their right to secede from the Union. The secession of the Southern states in 1860–61 and the ensuing outbreak of armed hostilities were the culmination of decades of growing sectional friction over the related issues of slavery‚ trade and tariffs‚ and the doctrine of states’ rights. This friction arose out of fundamental
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On the eve of the Civil War‚ the United States was a nation divided into four quite distinct regions: the Northeast‚ with a growing industrial and commercial economy and an increasing density of population; the Northwest‚ now known as the Midwest‚ a rapidly expanding region of free farmers where slavery had been forever prohibited under the Northwest Ordinance; the Upper South‚ with a settled plantation system and (in some areas) declining economic fortunes; and the Southwest‚ a booming frontier-like
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Reconstruction was a twelve-year period (1865–1877) of rebuilding that followed the Civil War (1861–1865)‚ a conflict between the United States (the Union; states mostly located in the North) and states in the South (the Confederacy). The Confederacy took stand for their independence while the Union fought for the preservation of their region. Each conflicting side had their set goal in the Civil War. However‚ after the War and Reconstruction the South emerged to be profoundly different from the antebellum
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Standing separately‚ the two nations‚ the United States of America and the newly formed Confederate States of America‚ prepared for war. The Civil War began due to a structural failure of the Constitution which caused for several differences to form between the North and South‚ eventually leading to the South’s secession from the Union. The roots of the Civil War planted themselves far before the secession of the South from the Union. In 1787‚ during the writing of the Constitution‚ Roger Sherman
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The War on Terror was a declaration by President George W. Bush in response to the September 11 attacks to eliminate terror events around the world. The initial targets of this declaration was Al Qaeda and the ‘axis of evil’ that included Iran‚ Iraq and North Korea. This action led to full blown wars in Afghanistan‚ Iraq and recently the Syria crisis. When the Taliban government didn’t cooperate with America to discover Osama Bin Laden‚ the US prepared to invade. The invasion started a month after
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This marking period is nearly over and the topics I learned were describing the condition of the Southern United States in the aftermath of the US Civil War‚ comparing the life of slaves before and after the civil war‚ and analyzing the differences in reconstruction plans between Presidents Lincoln and Johnson. For instance‚ the term reconstruction means to improve and/or recreate something better. The term implies that there has been an era in America that needed to improve. An example would be
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The period after the Civil War was a very difficult time in the United States’ history. This time was known as the Reconstruction period and it was a very controversial time. There were many issues that had to be addressed such as what to do with the free blacks in the south and how states would be readmitted to the Union. This era saw the rise of the Radical Republicans. The government was going through changes‚ southerners were going through changes‚ and blacks were going through changes. Whites
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Many people assume that the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment‚ which abolished slavery‚ brought freedom and equality for African-Americans. However‚ that was not the case. Freedom and equality were something that African-Americans had to fight for. They struggled in poverty‚ constantly being denied their rights‚ and being discriminated against. The end of the Civil War was just the beginning of the fight‚ African-Americans had to unite and work hard to make America
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