In the summer of 1919‚ World War 1 had officially ended through the Treaty of Versailles‚ though that was not the only thing that would end at the time. Under the Treaty of Versailles‚ Germany was forced to pay billions in reparations‚ make vast reductions in the army and other crippling punishments. The terms of the treaty had completely destroyed Germany through the economy. Jobs were lost‚ the currency had gone through major inflation‚ their land had been withdrawn from Germany and on top of it
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The immediate origins of the 1898 Spanish-American War began with the Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894. The American tariff‚ which put restrictions on sugar imports to the United States‚ severely hurt the economy of Cuba‚ which was based on producing and selling sugar. In Cuba‚ then a Spanish colony‚ angry nationalists known as the insurrectos began a revolt against the ruling Spanish colonial regime. When Spain sent in General "Butcher" Weyler to stabilize the situation in Cuba‚ he put much of the population
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During the time period of realism‚ we were undergoing the Civil War. The Civil War was between the North and the South‚ determining how our nation would be run. Dr. James McPherson explains: The war resolved two fundamental questions left unresolved by the revolution: whether the United States was to be a dissolvable confederation of sovereign states or an indivisible nation with a sovereign national government; and whether this nation‚ born of a declaration that all men were created with an equal
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feels like there’s no choice but to go to war to stop Philip * The War of the Spanish Succession (1702 – 1713) * France and Spain vs. England and Portugal * Portugal gets a guarantee that they wont be taken over by Spain * England wins * Treaty of Utrecht (1713) * (Philip will still be king of France) * No union of Spain and France * Gibraltar and Minorca - Straits of Gibraltar (Spanish island) granted to Great Britain
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The American Civil War‚ also known as the War between the States or simply the Civil War (see naming)‚ was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 between the United States (the "Union" or the "North") and several Southern slave states that had declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy" or the "South"). The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery‚ and‚ after four years of bloody combat (mostly in the South)‚ the Confederacy was defeated‚ slavery
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General (Gen.) Sheridan was the commander assigned to the Northwest Region of the United States. His military supervisor at the time was Gen. Ulysses S. Grant who was the overall commander of the Union Forces during the Civil War. Gen. Grant gave Gen. Sheridan the tactics‚ techniques and procedures to devise a plan to execute the mission accordingly. For example‚ “General Terry was strike west from Fort Abraham Lincoln. General Crook was to push north from Fort Fetterman‚ Wyoming. General Gibbon
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have carried through. He was the most influential and powerful president that had ever befallen our nation. He controlled the entirety of the power of the government for a long period‚ and with that power brought the nation together‚ ending the civil war. If Lincoln had lived‚ he would have had the remainder of a four-year term to work constructively with the Republican majorities that controlled both houses of Congress in creating the kinds of policies that would form the basis for consensus within
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| | The Aztec-Spanish War: Causes and Effects Shane J. Bergen HIST101 American History to 1877 Professor Lawhorn May 28‚ 2013 The Aztec-Spanish War The Aztec empire was one of the strongest and most expansive empires in the 15th century. They cemented their power by securing strategic alliances‚ but they also established enemies who would eventually aid their demise. The Aztec-Spanish War is officially described to have lasted between 1519 and 15211‚ but many events before
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causes and consequences of the Spanish civil war? The Spanish Civil War had been majorly caused by a series of long-term events and short-term events which had contributed to its outbreak in July 17th‚ 1936. The consequences of the Spanish Civil War may be divided in terms of its effect on Spain and its effect upon the rest of the world. Paul Preston argues that the war had been influenced by a series of events‚ which had built up until the final eruption of the war in 1936. Preston argues that
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American Civil War Milan Patel The journal paper discusses the problems faced by Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis that contributed to civil war in their respective states. It analyses the contribution of each person in the American civil war. The achievements of both commanders will also be discussed together with their weaknesses. Introduction A civil war involves the conflict between different groups in the same state. The main objectives of the civil war are the intention of one group to exercise
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