Summary of the Civil War: Fought 1861-1865‚ the American Civil War was the result of decades of sectional tensions between the North and South. Focused on slavery and states rights‚ these issues came to a head following the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Over the next several months eleven southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America. During the first two years of the war‚ Southern troops won numerous victories but saw their fortunes turn after losses at Gettysburg
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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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Standing separately‚ the two nations‚ the United States of America and the newly formed Confederate States of America‚ prepared for war. The Civil War began due to a structural failure of the Constitution which caused for several differences to form between the North and South‚ eventually leading to the South’s secession from the Union. The roots of the Civil War planted themselves far before the secession of the South from the Union. In 1787‚ during the writing of the Constitution‚ Roger Sherman
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The United States as a whole was divided before the Civil War‚ over the dispute of whether slavery should be allowed or not after the Mexican American war ended in 1848. After the Mexican American war citizens of the North and the South began to dispute the issue of slavery and tensions started to rise. There were many things proposed that were proposed to help the dispute over slavery such as the Wilmot Provisio which would close off California‚ Utah and New Mexico off from slavery. However it
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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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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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The decade preceding World War II is most notably remembered for the Great Depression‚ a world wide economic period of decline on a scale never before seen. Obviously it affected every country differently and as a result the international political system was multi-polar and divided among two groups‚ the Axis and the Allies. The destruction of World War II left only two countries economically viable enough to be considered a world power‚ the United States and the Soviet Union. This unprecedented
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People do not actually know the exact things that started the Civil War but that is why I am here. Back then the South was pro slavery and the North was not. That was like the main reason it was a war plus other things that was happening involving the government. The South seceded from The Union because they wanted slavery but the North did not‚ they did not want to follow the national government’s rules‚ and they did not have as much as the North. The South’s economy was based off of slavery
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the limelight on nuclear confrontations‚ proliferations‚ and sanctions across the globe‚ exhausting all powers of social‚ military‚ and economic influence to further develop democratic policies. In 1945‚ one large-scale war was concluded and another one had just begun. Even though there was not a direct military campaign between two key adversaries‚ the Cold War continued roughly for about 45 long years. It was named Cold because no actual fighting took place‚ but both the U.S. and USSR were bulking
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Political and Economic Changes In Bulgaria Over the course of the past two months‚ January and February 1997‚ Bulgaria has undergone some sweeping political changes and its economy has deteriorated into further collapse. The following is an attempt to describe the events which took place in Bulgaria in January and February of 1997. This is somewhat of a difficult task given the current rate of political‚ economical and social changes which are occurring in Bulgaria. What follows is an account
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