Slavery was made illegal‚ and the new political climate was a huge victory for the oppressed minority‚ the slaves. However‚ slave owners in the south were very unhappy with the outcome of the war‚ and as a whole the south’s struggle to recover after the Civil War is known as the “Reconstruction”. A large majority of this reconstruction was based on rebuilding infrastructure in the south that was damaged or destroyed by Union soldiers during the war. It is important to note that the Reconstruction had
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“The Battle of the Somme was a total failure” How far do Sources A-F support this statement? On the 1st July 1916‚ the battle of the Somme began. Sources A‚ D‚ E and F suggest that the Battle of The Somme wasn’t a total failure. However‚ Sources B and C suggest that the British underestimated the Germans and this was the cause of their massacre. Source B proposes that although the British were organized and everything was going according to their plan‚ the first line‚ which had nearly reached
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in Cuba was a total failure. To what extent do you agree with this statement? It is often said that the containment policy during the Cuban missile crisis was a success on America’s part‚ but was it really? America lost a loyal ally‚ almost caused a nuclear war and Cuba still stayed communist. America had to promise never interfere with Cuba again‚ and hence‚ America would not be able to regain any control or get rid of Castro as it had set out to do before the crisis. Containment was an American
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of slaves free. The south was in ruins after they fought a defensive war and Reconstruction was introduced. With Lincoln in charge‚ many people looked forward to the future after the long Civil War. The first step was encouraging people to abandon the Confederacy and to come back into the union. This is where the complications started to be revealed. During the reconstruction period‚ the freedmen had big hopes now that they had their freedom. After president Lincoln was assassinated‚ Andrew Johnson
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Powers’ meagre 21 million. This was because‚ although the Allies had the larger force number-wise‚ they included about 21 million Russians who were immensely ill equipped and fairly ineffective. Whether the Allied forces merely took advantage of the mistakes made by the Central Powers or whether they were indeed the stronger bloc is arguable‚ never the less‚ the loss of the war came as a huge shock for the Germans and the other members of the Central Powers and was because the many of the people in
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Henry VIII was responsible for the English foreign policy failures in the years 1509-1529‚ and this is because he was too keen to establish his presence in international affairs and believed that he had to demonstrate his strengths to his subjects. This way of thought was due to his peaceful rise to the throne and because of his confident personality; Henry wanted to win victories on the battlefield and wanted to establish his image of a Renaissance warrior. Henry’s first failure was in France
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World War was an unmitigated failure.’ Do you agree with this statement? Joseph Stalin‚ the General Secretary of the USSR‚ who had signed two agreements during and after the Second World War. The two agreements were signed under Yalta Conference and Potsdam Conference in February 1945 and 17 July - 2 August 1945 respectively. These two agreements were both influenced USSR future. In the following essay‚ it proves whether Joseph Stalin’s foreign policy during and after the Second World War was an unmitigated
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I think that Reconstruction was a success because of its effects later in history. Although it had many bad things come out of it at the beginning‚ in the long run‚ it greatly helped get African-Americans rights. It also opened the South’s economy up to more industrial businesses‚ to gain more finances. First of all‚ African-American rights were non-existent before Reconstruction. Negroes‚ a nicer term for African-Americans‚ were seen as lesser beings that didn’t deserve rights equal to Whites. But
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Was the Falklands War a political success or failure for the - Thatcher government? - On 2 April 1982‚ the British political system was rocked by news of an extraordinary event eight thousand miles away in the South Atlantic. A long-standing and thorny dispute with Argentina over sovereignty of the Falkland Islands – a tiny relic of empire proximate to the South American mainland – had erupted with a sudden and unprovoked invasion of British territory by Argentine forces. Britain’s
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The Reconstruction Era was a period from 1863-1877 in which America went through three phases of reconstruction after the Civil War. In the early 1860’s the Civil War between the Union and Confederate‚ the war’s main cause were economic and racial reasons. After the end of the war‚ the reconstruction and unifying of the country started. During reconstruction there was a Presidential and Congressional reconstruction followed by a redemption period. The presidential reconstruction was the transition
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