Stuyvesant). Trench warfare was a tactic that got nowhere while fighting. Then they started using nuclear gases that killed a lot of people. Trench warfare was an interesting thing‚ he technology changed how well it worked‚ and he attitude of leaders changed trench warfare as well. Trench warfare made the war one of the slowest in history. People got almost nowhere from it. Trench warfare is the idea where you dig a trench and many people go in them. Then they would jump up and shoot the other people. They
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The KKK was created by a group of confederate soldiers because the blacks helped the north win the war. Which is also why it was so hard to make the south conform to new laws that the government passed. As Mary Daly once said‚ “I had explained that women asking for equality in a church would be the same as a black man asking the KKK for equality”. Well‚ at least laws that had to do with civil rights for blacks. Except of course jim crow laws. In fact‚ jim crow laws allowing segregation if its
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Immigrants traveled to America for new opportunities and freedom. They moved because of the difficult life conditions they had in Europe. They had little money and homes‚ but most of all they couldn’t worship God how they wanted to. The Great Famine also happened which was when all the potatoes got a disease so no one could eat them which led to starvation and death. They were fascinated by the story books they read about America and decided they wanted to move there. Some didn’t leave by choice
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The Civil war‚ which began in 1861‚ came to an end on May 13th‚1865‚ and the Union claimed the victory. But the South were victorious in many of the earlier battles of the war‚ but at first they had a strong military leadership. The South’s defeat was due to poor strategy in the military and the appointment of weak generals‚ many people also believe that political leadership‚ foreign support‚ the supply of the army and war economics were reasons they didn’t win. The North also had mountains and
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Why did the South Lose the Civil War? Beginning as a battle of army versus army‚ the war became a conflict of society against society. In this kind of war‚ the ability to mobilize economic resources‚ the effectiveness of political leadership‚ and a society’s willingness to keep up the fight despite setbacks‚ are as crucial to the outcome as success or failure on the battlefields. Unfortunately for the Southern planters‚ by the spring of 1865‚ the South was exhausted‚ and on April 9‚ Lee surrendered
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Civil War The reason of the Civil War starting is because when Abraham Lincoln became the president it cause about seven Southern countries to secede from the union and they formed a thing called “Confederate States”. So after that there was many other reasons of the why the Civil War happened but some of the reasons are the idea of slavery‚ tariffs‚ trading and states rights. So‚ one of the reason of the civil war is the Missouri Compromise and it was extending to the California border and they
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Another major part of Stalin’s plan was to change Russia into a Humanitarian Socialist Society. This means that he would have to take forcefully action in shifting the life and culture of U.S.S.R. The most positive aspect of his reforms were the introduction of old-age pensions‚ free medical services
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In 1915‚ Gandhi returned to India‚ after the government of the Union of South Africa had made important changes to their government that he commanded‚ including recognizing Indian marriages and abolition of the poll tax for them. After travelling all over India to get to know himself with the country of which he knew nothing about‚ he dived into politics‚ and soon became the respected leader of the Indian nationalist movement. He single-handedly transformed the middle- and upper-class Indian National
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“The Vietnam War and How It Changed America” At the end of World War II Military and Political tensions between the USSR (Russia) and the US greatly increased. Communism in the USSR presented itself as a big threat to the US’s national security. Fearing that the Communism would spread to Vietnam and other countries‚ the US opposed the independence movement there. The US first began by financially supporting France in the first Indochina War. The French defeat in Dein Bien Phu led to a peace
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have eventually won the war. The Union had a lot of power and a better army. They had better plans to invade the land such as the ports they took‚ the support and the congress passing laws such as the Emancipation Proclamation. The North invaded multiple ports giving the North access to the Confederate both by land and water. The North would have soon been able to take all the land instead making them surrender. The North also had an advantage by having more men fight in the war. The abolitionists of
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