tempting to argue that battles and entire wars are exactly as they seem. This common problem is readily found in two wars fought in the 1860s: the American Civil War (1861-1865) and the Austro-Prussian War (1866). However‚ while it is easy to consider the American Civil War as simply a war fought by the Union to maintain territorial integrity throughout the relatively young United States‚ and the Austro-Prussian War as merely the “middle” war of the three wars of German Unification meant to expand “German”
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Before the “Lost Boys”‚ before the poetically gruesome depictions of survival in ‘They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky’‚ and even before South Sudan gained independence as a country in 2011‚ there were two civil wars lasting a combined 39 years which resulted in the deaths of almost 3 million people. These deaths were the outcome of starvation‚ thirst‚ fighting and the harsh wildlife of Africa. Up until 1946‚ North and South Sudan were considered to be separate. Meaning their economics‚ politics and
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The civil war was the bloodiest war in American history. Families torn apart by different views‚ all fought in the name of liberty. Was this war about race? How could it not be? It was a fight of one group of people‚ whites‚ to own another group of people‚ blacks‚ and for blacks to be free with no oppressive master controlling their lives. A fight that lead to blacks being a free people. Black men were barred from joining the U.S. military because of an existing federal law passed in 1792. President
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Causes of the American Civil War The American Civil War was a war fought from 1861 to 1865‚ after the United States split up sometime from 1860 to1861 (Causes of The Civil War (3) 1). The war was fought over secession; secession or withdrawal is when a population with significant possessions is revoked from an established single country and a founded separate government (Secession 2). In The Civil War this meant that the Southern states disaffiliated themselves from The Union and proclaimed themselves
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The Spanish civil war is often seen as a fundamental divide between right and left- the first major struggle between Fascism and Communism. The Spanish civil war started distinctly as a Spanish civil war born out of Spanish disputes‚ but it was soon to take on an international character. The military situations were practically equal to both sides before the foreign intervention. However‚ after Germany‚ Italy‚ and USSR intervened the situation changed dramatically. In general‚ the decision by foreign
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led the United States into civil war? There are many factors that lead into the beginning of the Civil War‚ but most of the disagreements arose from one problem: slavery. During this time‚ the nation was split into two: half of which supported slavery‚ and the other strongly against it. The Northerners were strongly against slavery while the Southerners supported it. Not only are there many causes of the Civil War; there were also many effects that emerged from the war (The American Vision 345).
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Virinder Kaur POLS 202-01: International Relations Reaction Paper #1: Of Syrian Wars and US Foreign Policies Due: October 4‚ 2012 Modern Syria first gained its independence in 1946‚ following many years of violent strife. Before this‚ the state had been under a French Mandate and had suffered under a conditional (or more aptly‚ false) independence‚ wherein the French State held veto power over any potential laws introduced by the Syrian people (US Dept. of State). In 1970‚ the Baath party came
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America and much of the Western world. It consisted of students‚ anti-war protestors‚ political figures‚ social activists‚ environmentalists‚ civil rights movement leaders as well as famous musicians and was a movement rooted in the desire for change. Many factors contributed to the causes of this movement‚ and being such a radical and popular movement‚ there are also many lingering effects. This essay will investigate two major long term effects of
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The costs of the Civil War included over 630‚000 American lives lost‚ destruction and damage to lands and cities in the South‚ and total economic costs of the war estimated to be $6‚190‚000‚000. By the end of the war‚ the South faced reconstruction both economically and culturally. A majority of Southern towns were destroyed and had hardly enough money to rebuild. The Civil War led to a boom in manufacturing‚ developments in communication‚ increase in railroad use and eventually an Industrial Revolution
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All American troops‚ together with war prisoners‚ allied military returned home‚ and the four-nation international control commission was established to ensure peace. Overall‚ the Vietnam War brought severe political‚ economic‚ and social consequences. The principal political consequences‚ was the low credibility and faith to the government‚ the lack of respected to public institutions. The obvious economical consequence let the United States analyze better the engaging in future conflicts. The
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