Salient Era A period that will be forever remembered by the American people. During the years of 1850-1914 Americans experienced both devastation and depression. For example‚ the Civil War where there was no true winner when it ended. Americans faced reconstruction physically due to the battles taken place in their cities and towns‚ and mentally because of the loss of loved ones. Some other events and people that affected this era was the Dredd Scott Decision‚ John Brown‚ with the most important
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The Civil War was a long war between the northern and southern states. The southern states seceded from the union‚ creating the Confederate States of America with their president as Jefferson Davis. This caused many years of violence with the union fighting for a united nation‚ and the confederacy fighting for secession. The war ended with a union victory‚ but it brought many consequences. The most significant of these consequences are the destruction of lives and property‚ the emancipation of slaves
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The Chinese Civil was fought from 1946 to 1949 by the Chinese Communist Party and the governing Chinese National Party or Kuomintang. The two parties began initially by working together during the Northern Expedition‚ which were a Kuomintang military campaign unifying communists and nationalists from 1926 to 1928. The death of the revolutionary republican leader of the Kuomintang‚ Sun Yat sen‚ however‚ caused power struggle between the two opposing parties. There were multiple
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paper aims to critically discuss the Angolan civil war and this paper shall also evaluate the arguments that were raised by Karl Van Clausewitz‚ when he argued that “war is a continuation of politics in another means”. Angola will be used as a case study‚ since some scholars have argued that the civil war that took place in Angola was indeed the continuation of politics‚ since they were many states that were involved in the war‚ giving aid to enhance the war‚ whereas they had their own national interest
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Civil War and the Destruction of the Republic By the time Gaius Marius became a consul in 107 B.C.E.‚ opposition to reform was widespread within the Senate. Nevertheless‚ Marius reorganized the military by allowing landless citizens to join the army in return for land as a retirement pension. He then created a professional army with standardized training and equipment that was more effective for waging the growing number of extended military campaigns the Republic was involved in. Because their
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right to rule. Collectively‚ these opponents became known as the Whites. The Whites were opposed to the Reds for two main reasons: they seized the land‚ property and factories of the well off and they attacked religious beliefs. By the end of 1918 civil war had broken out in Russia between the Whites and the Reds. The Whites were supported from abroad by the Allies; Britain‚ France‚ the USA and Japan. The Allies opposed Lenin in retaliation for his Brest-Litovsk peace treaty with Germany in March 1918
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Running head: THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR The Nigerian Civil War Molloy College The Nigerian Civil War Between 1870 and 1900 the continent of Africa and the Africans that inhabited it endured a European imperialist push that ended with the entire African continent‚ except for the nations of Ethiopia and Liberia under the colonial boot of the European powers. The European nations of Belgium‚ Britain‚ France‚ Germany‚ Italy‚ Portugal and Spain carved up the continent between
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What were four demanding questions that would have to be answered quickly after the Civil War? From a broad perspective‚ a large array of posed questions would have to be answered quickly after the Civil War. Evidence from the text that further bolsters this claim is shown when the authors state‚ “Four questions loomed large. How would the South‚ physically devastated by war and socially revolutionized by emancipation‚ be rebuilt? How would liberated blacks fare as free men and women? How would
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published in both The Journal of the Civil War Era and Civil War History I have a far better understanding of the many different subfields that make up the historical study of the Civil War. My response to the question which prompted this essay would be that I consider myself to be a military Civil War historian. However‚ I am not a military historian in the traditional sense. I am interested in studying the military strategies used by the great military minds of the Civil War‚ but that is not all I am interested
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of the state and abolished the slavery. Lasting impact had been made on American society. For decades after the war‚ Northern Republicans "waved the bloody shirt‚" brought up wartime casualties as an electoral tactic. Memories of the war and Reconstruction held the segregated the South together as a Democratic block—the "Solid South"—in national politics for another century. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s had its neoabolitionist roots in the failure of Reconstruction. Ghosts of the conflict
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