World Civilization II Take Home Test AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE: * The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) or American War of Independence or simply American Revolution‚ began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America‚ and ended in a global war between several European great powers. * The war was the end result of escalating political tensions between the Parliament of Great Britain and colonists opposed to various taxes and other
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Military and The American Civil War What events and people fall under this important theme of the American Civil War? Military was very important in the Civil War‚ and was basically the most important thing. When people think about war the first thing that comes to their head is weapons and militia. The military was a key factor in the war the winner was going to be determined on who had the better army and whose side was stronger. There were two major armies involved in the Civil War‚ but there
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Civil Rights during the cold war: The Political science realm. The Cold War was a period of political and military tension after World War ll‚ which is said to be dated from around 1947 to 1991. During this time‚ the world’s elite almost came to the brink of disaster. It was named the Cold War because they never fought each other directly; it was a power struggle between the elite at the time. While the United States Military was in battle across seas with the Soviet Union‚ there was another some
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important political wars‚ is known as the American Revolution. The American Revolution was between the colonists and loyalists throughout the years of 1765 and 1783. Leading up to the American Revolution many acts and rules were passed by the British hoping to have control over the colonies by giving them no representation on their own government. The american revolution was engendered due to the acts and rules british forced on the colonies without any consent. The French and Indian war‚ also known
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Pro-war and Anti-war movements for the 20th century There have been movements that support or oppose war throughout all of history. The 20th century saw this movement coalesce into a much larger and more diverse series of society changing events. Spanish-American war‚ World War I‚ World War II‚ the Cold War‚ Korea‚ Vietnam and Desert Storm were all wars that helped American society evolve into what it is today. For each of the conflicts‚ there were opposing points of view as to the amount of
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The Mexican war was mainly a war that President Polk wanted in effort to obtain more land for the United States. The people who wanted the war were mostly Democrats and Southerners. Southerners supported the war because they were in hope that more land would be acquired meaning more states would be admitted into the union as slave states. For this same reason the Whig Party opposed the war because they were abolitionists. Abolitionists opposed slavery so with the addition of new slave states‚
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because the Fifth Amendment stated that you cannot be stripped of your property‚ and slaves were property. During the Mexican war‚ it was a very large concern that the new land acquired during the war would become slave states. In reaction to this concern‚ David Wilmot‚ a congressman from Pennsylvania proposed a bill that stated that any lands picked up through the duration of the war would become free states. The bill was never passed‚ however it politicized finally and definitively ever since
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The Spanish-American War was fought between the United States‚ and Spain. Sadly it’s not a popular subject in high schools these days‚ so most students don’t know anything about this war. The Spanish-American War marked a new beginning for the United States‚ Cuba and Spain. These countries where affected by the war because the Spanish American war would end the Spanish Empire‚ create a new one‚ and give a colony its independence. WHAT STARTED THE WAR The Spanish American war was about Cubin Independence
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During the Vietnam War era‚ the United States and other democratic and free nations were fearful of communism spreading to more parts of the world. They fought two world wars to protect freedom‚ and to contain the communist movements. The foreign policy of the United States evolved to that of a pre-emptive type strike on the possibility of communism surfacing and threatening free countries. Harry S. Truman began to theorize that if a communist nation took over a non-communist state‚ then neighboring
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Containment during the Cold War refers to the United States’ methodology of dealing with Communism. Proposed by George Kennan‚ this policy (along with the Truman Doctrine) would be the driving force behind many of the United States’ decisions throughout the Cold War. The idea involved stopping the spread of Communism and influence of the Soviet Union by keeping it within the borders it already lies. Kennan believed that the system of Communism was a deadly force as it spreads‚ similar to a parasite
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