Kennedy and Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States of America. He served as President when the country was under war. Abe Lincoln was born in 1806 and grew up in the countryside as a pioneer. His mother died at a young age and he had a sister. His father married a widow that had three children and Abe Lincoln liked her very much. Every day he attended school and worked very hard on his father’s farm. John F. Kennedy was born in 1917 and died in 1963. John
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Syrian Civil War Project on Syrian Civil War May‚ 2013 War is the horrible‚ the most cruel activity of man. It is nothing but mass murder. The evolution of human society towards something better has always been under wars. Millions of dollars are spend every year for deadly weapons of war. Human nature hates cruelty although some people believe that humans must shed blood to satisfy their blood thirsty nature. But is it so the case? Wars have been fought for a lot of reasons. But the Syrian
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The Civil War Summary The American Civil War‚ 1861–1865‚ resulted from long-standing sectional differences and questions not fully resolved when the United States Constitution was ratified in 1789. With the defeat of the Southern Confederacy and the subsequent passage of the XIII‚ XIV and XV amendments to the Constitution‚ the Civil War’s lasting effects include abolishing the institution of slavery in America and firmly redefining the United States as a single‚ indivisible nation rather than
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of the Civil War‚ it was not the sole cause‚ the rights of individual states is also to be considered as a factor‚ as the Southern States felt it was their constitutional right to own slaves (Dew‚ 2001). The decision to secede without force of arms is also significant according to Benedict‚ as it would have disrupted the federal system greatly and there is no indication of what the consequences of this would have been (Benedict‚ 1988). Eleven states in total seceded from the union; South Carolina
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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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States without a Civil War. We would be a much greater and stronger nation. I believe that the South didn’t have the right to fight for their way of life. Due to their attitude on slavery‚ they created a war that was dreadful. In the war‚ was the bloodiest day in US history‚ and the entire war caused 650‚000 deaths. I believe this due to the cost of the Civil War‚ the unjustness of slavery‚ and the way that the South never compromised. The first reason of why I think that the South didn’t have the
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Hypothesis: That the Bolshevik’s Red Army won the civil war in 1920 due to their central and influential ideologies and due to the lack of ideologies and direction of the Whites. Evaluate this claim. Shortly after the October and February revolutions‚ in 1917‚ Russia burst almost immediately into Civil War. The two parties concerned were the Bolshevik’s Red Army and the opposing White Army. The Civil War raged from the years 1917 to presently after 1920 with the eventual success of the Red Army over
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The Cold War was fought between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ however‚ there was never any direct contact between the two nations. In this war‚ the United States fought for capitalism and the Soviet Union fought for communism. The United States and Soviet Union fought each other through Proxy wars - wars incited by a major power that does not participate in the war. Two examples of Proxy wars during the Cold War are the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The Korean war began in 1950 when North Korea
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Spanish Civil War? (10) The Spanish Civil war was a very important event that happened in 1936 between the Republicans and the Nationalists‚led by General Francisco Franco. Although it did not make World War II inevitable‚ it increased the likelihood of a general war a great deal. The war had a tremendous impact on Spain itself‚ leaving much of the state’s economic and social infrastructure in ruins and leaving thousands dead. There were varies foreign interventions in the Spanish Civil War by different
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Battle of Fort Sumter - April 12-14 - South Carolina - Confederate victory. Battle of Sewell’s Point - May 18–19 - Virginia - Inconclusive. Battle of Aquia Creek - May 29 – June 1 - Virginia - Inconclusive. Battle of Philippi - June 3 - West Virginia (then Virginia) - Union Victory. Battle of Big Bethel - June 10 - Virginia - Confederate victory. Battle of Boonville - June 17 - Missouri - Union victory. Battle of Cole Camp - June 19 - Missouri - Confederate victory. Battle of Hoke’s Run - July 2
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