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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There is no doubt that the Civil War was inevitable and was going to happen sooner or later. Many historical events lead up and caused to the Civil War and there was no way to avoid it. The United States and all of their presidents throughout the time period were dealing with other problems like women’s rights and reform movements and it was a lot to deal with. The Civil War was inevitable because there were certain pieces of land that couldn’t be determined as a slave or a free state‚ there were
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Causes Of The Civil War The Civil War‚ which lasted from 1861 to 1877‚ was mainly caused by the diverging society between the North and the South. The North and the South had different goals. There were many factors that led to the war and the chief ones were political decisions‚ morality of slavery‚ and economic differences between the North and the South. A cause of the Civil War was that the economy was splitting. As said in document 2‚ the slaves were needed to work on plantations
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The Spanish Civil War Spanish civil war began on 17 July 1936 and ended on 1 April 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists to wrest the dominated power. When progressive Popular Front government was elected in February 1936‚ Nationalists gathered to plan resistance and they were led by Francisco. The rebel force predicted that the war would end with a victory quickly and take the entire country. However‚ that was their miscalculation; the war spent much time than their expectation‚ and
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From this moment onwards the issues between the Union and Confederates became serious. On April 12‚ 1861‚ the thirty-three states‚ Union‚ and Confederate‚ went to war. This Civil War lasted four long years. Ending on May 9‚ 1865‚ with approximately 620‚000 deaths and thousands of casualties‚ the Civil War is to date the bloodiest war in the history of the United States. The effects of the Civil War are still present to this day. The primary causes of the civil war were the different opinions on
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millions of citizens never exercise their right to vote‚ a few hundred party leaders select our national political candidates‚ and only those who have million-dollar treasuries can run for political office with a reasonable chance of winning. Latin American military dictatorships are called democracies. South Vietnam with a single candidate for president during the Vietnam War was called a democracy. The word democracy comes from two Greek words: a noun‚ demos which means ’’people’’ and a verb‚ kratein
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-The Civil War is a Present Struggle- The Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars in history- more than 620‚000 people died by fighting for the Union or the Confederacy. All those lives that got sacrificed‚ but‚ we still‚ to this day‚ fail to understand the reasons they perished for they stood for what was right in their eyes. The Union was anti-slavery and despised the act. They fought to make sure that in the future‚ slavery and racism wouldn’t exist anymore. The Confederacy fought for the fact
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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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started on July 1‚ 1863. It lasted for 3 days. The battle was between the Confederate and the Union. The Confederate were the South who wore gray and the Union was the North who wore blue. Gettysburg was the biggest and bloodiest battle ever fought on American soil. The combined losses from both armies exceeded 53‚000 men. In the first day‚ 25‚000 men died! The men from the North who stood out most in the battle were General John Buford who set up the Northern Victory‚ and Joshua L. Chamberlain who was
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The American Civil War of 1861‚ has been taught in schools of America to be a war between the Confederates and the Union about the institution of slavery. However‚ this war also created the basis of new forms of weaponry and technology. Small arms of the American Civil War‚ were revolutionized in order to ultimately create faster-firing weapons that would prove to immensely assist soldiers in the war. Also‚ the advancement in weapon technology impacted the tactics and the style of warfare utilized
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