The civil war is not one sided. Both sides had their reasons to go to war. One of the main causes and most known was slavery. The Union said it was unjust and immoral‚ while the south believed it was okay to have slaves. An effect of this was the Emancipation Proclamation document. This document said that slavery was wrong and against god’s will. This document alone was a huge statement to the south and foreign countries alike. This document helped keep foreign countries from aiding the south because
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Adonis Silva 4/30/2015 8-012 Cause & Effect Vietnam War The causes of the Vietnam War trace their roots back to the end of World War II. A French Colony‚ Indochina (Vietnam‚ Laos‚ & Cambodia) had been occupied by the Japanese during the war. In 1941‚ a Vietnamese nationalist movement‚ the Viet Minh‚ was formed by Ho Chi Minh to resist the occupiers. Before World War Two‚ Vietnam had been part of the French Empire. During the war‚ the country had been overrun by the Japanese. When the Japanese retreated
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At the peak of the Cold War‚ the US faced many social and international issues. Some of the decision that were made in the 1960s‚ still affect Americans today. People were mostly concerned with the idea of the draft and being sent to fight in a war that has lost its purpose. The main reason that America was still fighting in vietnam was the idea of the domino effect where if Vietnam were to fall to communism‚ the rest of Southeast Asia would follow. While president‚ Nixon took an immoral stance where
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The Vietnam War was a controversial war that caused much anger and resentment in the United States. The war began in 1959 as a result of the United States attempting to stop communism from spreading throughout Vietnam and to the rest of the world (Vietnam War). Communism had taken effect in parts of Vietnam‚ and the United States feared that allowing Vietnam to become a communist nation would create a Domino Effect‚ resulting in every nation becoming communist. So in order to stop communism‚ President
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The question suggests that the rivalry between the superpowers were responsible for worsening and prolonging the regional conflicts. The Cold War was the elongated tension between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. It started in the mid 40’s after WWII had left Europe in shambles and USSR and US in superpower positions. The Cold War was a clash of these superpowers in political‚ ideological‚ security‚ and economic values and ideas. It caused a bipolar system in the world where there
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and Indian War‚ also known as the Seven Years’ War‚ was the New World conflict that marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France. When France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies‚ a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756. Not only were there tremendous effects on the French‚ but also the French and Indian War had an almost innumerable number of effects on the economic
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The Cold War Effect on Mexico The reasons for the Cold War-related influences in Mexico in 1968 were multiple‚ but foremost of all was the fact that communism occupied a prominent position in the struggle between Mexican youth and their government. A local understanding of communism won out over the global characterization advanced by the United States. In addition‚ US anti-communist influence failed to have the desired effect in Mexico‚ and pro-communist positions resided throughout Latin America
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Mexico. Mexico’s Drug War has been going on since 2006‚ and it has had lots of tolls on both its people and its government effectiveness. The USA has been a major part of trying to help Mexico through its issues‚ since the very beginning of this drug war. Without the US’s assistance‚ Mexico could be in a much deeper situation. Mexico’s Drug War has been an ongoing issue for the past 10 years. The war began when a retaliation was made against Mexican drug cartel violence. This war has become such a problem
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In the lead up to the Civil War tensions between the North and the South had risen to extreme levels. This was due to the constant arguments about states rights versus the powers of the federal government‚ a big factor being slavery. Although‚ not starting out as a war for freedom‚ with Abraham Lincoln’s election the South felt as though it was an attack on their society as a whole. Four months later a majority of the southern states seceded from the Union creating the Confederacy. However‚ the Union
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The Global Effect of World War 1 European Civilization: The First World War has change the aspect of European civilization. The government was transformed to fight a total war. The war changed the European union socially‚ politically‚ economically‚ and intellectually. European countries channeled all of their resources into total war‚ which resulted in enormous social change. World war one had devastating effects on Europe. The Great War demolished the Austria-Hungary Empire and the Russian
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