Did We Really Win the Cold War? Most people would say yes‚ we did win the Cold War. We accomplished some of our goals‚ the biggest being the collapse of the USSR. I personally believe that‚ even though we won by "last man standing" terms‚ the consequences that sprung from our actions in the past and present constitute as a loss. My first example would be the fear of nuclear weapons‚ and the actions that followed it. During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962‚ we were at the closest we had ever
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Homework: Liberal electoral chances In 1906‚ the Liberal party won a landslide victory against the Tory party. Various factors played into this success: the ideas and concepts introduced by so called New Liberalism‚ combined with the public’s weariness at the Conservatives‚ who had been in power continuously from the 1880s. By 1906 the Tories had introduced a series of rather unpopular decisions‚ laws‚ and policies; a key example is the Boer War of 1899-1902. The Boer War was expected to be an
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whereabouts. Robert E. Lee was sent to control the rebellion‚ but Brown’s forces would not surrender. Lee’s army stormed the armory killing ten raiders‚ two of which were Brown’s sons. Brown was tried and hanged on December 2‚ 1859 at Charleston‚ Virginia. Thanks to Brown’s willingness to fight‚ he made a name for himself among the abolitionists. The Southerners praised the use of force from antislavery forces. As tensions grew between the states about slavery‚ it was not until the results of the
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The Artillery of the Potomac Army at Gettysburg‚ achieved victory through the “King of Battle” and integration of the Union maneuver commanders (Steve‚ 2014). Combat experience demonstrated seasoned leadership. The superiority of the Union artillery over their confederate counterparts was not only the number of guns employed‚ but also‚ it was the manner of how the Union commanders employed the artillery under their command (Steve‚ 2014). Proper integration of assets can determine the battlefield
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com). The battle of Waterloo would not have been such a crushing defeat if the events leading up to it were different. However‚ Napoleon was put into a do or die situation at the time of the Battle of Waterloo. His decisions at Waterloo will affect far more than just a war. The Battle of Waterloo began to brew in 1812 (three years before)‚ when Napoleon lost a campaign in Russia suffering
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democratic candidate! That’s fifty percent of the popular vote as the war grew stronger it was unlikely that Lincoln would win because previous losses at Bull Run and some other losses as well. Also that the Northerns were doubtful in Lincoln as the Southerners clung to this with hope. Many thought his loss could mean the end of war while Southerners held this hope but in the end Lincoln did get elected the Northerners saw a clear victory. This is because of this election and the past Northern victories
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In 1945-1949‚ the Guomindang (GMD) and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) fought for the ultimate control over China in the Second Civil War. In the beginning‚ the GMD had a great advantage over the CCP as the GMD had a larger arsenal and the Americans gave them large amounts of money. However‚ the CCP eventually won the Civil War‚ due to 4 main factors: (1) many GMD troops surrendered to the CCP‚ bringing American Weapons with them; (2) the CCP continued land reform whilst the GMD returned land to the
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The Cold War was a rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States that lasted for about forty-five years. The war began as a distrust between the two nations involving the United States concern of Soviet Union communism spreading and their leader‚ Joseph Stalin’s‚ rule. Numerous European and Asian countries were struggling in their fight against Soviet Union communism‚ including Greece and Turkey. President Harry Truman feared that the fall of Greece and Turkey to communism would lead to
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reality and the theory of the battle. The Blitzkrieg strategy that had defined German military capacity was inapplicable to the Russian situation in several contexts. Blitzkrieg was intended to avoid stagnant trench and linear warfare‚ it was intended to prevent enemy forces form arranging a coherent defence‚ and it depended upon a highly mobile and mechanised form of warfare. None of these credentials existed in Operation Barbarossa‚ and the result was a battle of attrition. In commencing Operation
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Leo the Deacon’s descriptions of the battles fought by the generals of Byzantium are incredibly detailed and portray the military strength of the Byzantines and the skill of its generals. While many of his claims have proven to be accurate‚ the finer details of military conquests he retells are likely dramatizations designed to highlight desired characteristics or actions of the Byzantine generals. His chronicles of the battles fought by the Byzantines in the expansion of their empire portray the
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