The Mexican-American War was a war between the United States and Mexico which lasted from April 1846 to February 1848. It stemmed from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (U.S. claim). The war was the most devastating event in Mexican history‚ where Mexico lost the modern day areas of California‚ Arizona‚ New Mexico‚ Nevada‚ Colorado and Montana. The Mexican-American spawned out of land lust
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The Vietnam War and the anti-war protests signified a fundamental shift with the relationship between political leaders and the citizens of the U.S. World War II was a conflict that was collectively considered necessary by the people of the United States. Vietnam represented a divisive conflict that Americans came to believe the United States was not fighting for a righteous cause. The anti-war movement was significant because it shifted American demographics in politics to a younger age group
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The Effects of and Views on the Civil War in Canada Throughout most traditional history classes‚ we are given only the perspective of people directly involved in events or of people that were in the near region where the events occur. This often narrows our insight‚ giving us an allusion that said events only affected one region unless otherwise said so which gives us a slight bit of outsight. By opening our views‚ we must explore not only one event in particular but all reaches of these events
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The Mexican War marked a major turning point for the fledgling American nation and its military – not only did it redefine the Southern border with Mexico‚ but it demonstrated the capabilities of the U.S. Army during an offensive engagement following a prolonged period of peace. The Mexican War is not a commonly cited conflict in U.S. history‚ but the lessons learned from it are relevant even today‚ as it combined conventional warfare with the struggle of being a small‚ occupying force in both rural
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Oscar Rivas Professor Cervantes US History/ 3rd Period October 18 2013 The MexicanAmerican war of 1846 played a very significant role in the history of the United States and Mexico. The United States gained 529‚000 square miles of valuable Mexican territory. Due to the war Mexico lost half of it’s land and resources which left Mexico with half of the territory they had before the war began. Wars are typically fought to defend or seize land‚ or to destroy an enemy. But in this case‚ the United States aggressively invaded Mexico
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The Cold War: The Cold War was a long stretched period of nuclear and political tension mostly between the Soviet Union and the US after WWII. While several events made tensions worse‚ including Truman’s Containment Policy‚ The Cuban Missile Crisis‚ and the Berlin Wall. The Cold War was ended in 1990 when the Berlin Wall came down and Eastern Europe the started holding free elections. Bay of Pigs: Speaking of the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ lets move to Cuba. The Bay of Pigs was a failed CIA operation
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A civil war doesn’t just happen‚ it must have tension between states to create such a terrible event. The biggest tension in the United States during the American Civil War was slavery. Many people benefited from slavery and would be greatly affected if it was outlawed‚ such as the South. Many believed that slavery was inhumane and gave other states an unfair advantage in the power they held‚ such as the North. There was an effort to create a compromise between these two arguments‚ though none would
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is currently experiencing distorted violence caused by regional narcotic wars and global drug trafficking. The epidemic of drug trafficking and violence has resulted in a war between Mexico’s government and the Narcos who instigate these acts of violence. There has been an ongoing fight between the Mexican Government and Narcos as far back as 2006. Before a fight erupted between the Mexican government and the Narcos‚ war brewed among several drug cartels. As violence and competition only made tension
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physicist once said‚ “The Cold War is over ‚ but Cold War thinking survives.“ This thinking that the United States is more democratic‚ powerful‚ family-orientated‚ and athletic than the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics can traced back to the 20th century. The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) were in political‚ military‚ economic‚ and ideological disagreements. In the 1940’s to the 1960’s‚ sport was not only used as a propaganda for the Cold War‚ but also as apart of the
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Jo Bob Professor Nutty NURS 1350 2 Nursing During the American Civil War The American Civil War occurred between 1861 and 1865. When the war began‚ there was no organized medical corps for either the Union Army or the Confederate Army. Up until then‚ nursing was still considered a “loose term” as far what a nurse is and does. There were no official nursing schools or professional trained nurses available. As newspapers wrote about the poor and unsanitary conditions that wounded solider were
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