...regards to that statement. Even before the Civil War began, foreign influence played an important role in several conflicts throughout American History. In the Revolutionary War, the Americans reached out to the French for support. This made an enormous difference in the war, giving the Americans enough of an advantage to beat back Britain and win. In the Civil War, that concept was brought back into play, as foreign countries supported both sides of the war through moral, financial, and manufacturing support. Although many Americans today believe that the Civil War was an internal conflict, in reality, foreign nations played a significant role throughout the entirety of the war. Though many people may think that the American Civil War was only between the North and the South, while in reality, it was an international event. The country that was the most influential throughout the course of the war was Great Britain. Although this country was officially considered neutral, the citizens of this nation found many different ways to aid the war. The British provided assistance to both sides of the war, but they mainly aided the Confederacy. Britain “did provide significant assistance in other ways, chiefly...
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...Bull Run Ends the "Ninety Day War” Know: Bull Run, Stonewall Jackson 14. What effect did the Battle of Bull Run have on North and South? North (and South) expected a quick war – Union believed a quick move South to Richmond would end the war – South’s victory increased overconfidence • Soldiers deserted with trophies, many believed war was over • Enlistment rates decreased; preparations for long-term war slowed – North’s defeat was better (long-term) for the Union • Ended belief that war would be over quickly • Caused Northerners to prepare for long war "Tardy George" McClellan and the Peninsula Campaign Know: George McClellan, Peninsula Campaign, Robert E. Lee, "Jeb" Stuart, Seven Days' Battles, Anaconda Plan 15. Describe the grand strategy of the North for winning the war. Union turned to 6-part strategy of total war – Suffocate South by blockading its ports – Free the slave to undermine economy of South – Cut Confederacy in 1/2 by taking control of Mississippi River – Cut Confederacy into pieces by sending troops into Georgia and Carolinas – Take Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia – Engage the enemy everywhere and grind them into submission The War at Sea Know: Blockade, Continuous Voyage, Merrimac, Monitor 16. What was questionable about the blockade practices of the North? Why did Britain honor the blockade anyway? Blockade began with leaks and was strengthened was war went on – At first, North concentrated on...
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...medical practices that had barely changed in a hundred years; were now treating wounds caused by new inventions. This would be a new kind of war for both the North and South. Prior to the Civil War each side had its advantages and disadvantages. If you were to compare them you would find differences in economic, social to cultural even transportation then any similarities. With so many difference and beliefs it’s no wonder they tore the nation apart, fought against family members and destroyed property. The South was in all aspects following behind the North and did not except or want changes imposed by the North. Regardless of the differences perhaps at the beginning of the war the South was ready to defend its way of life. Their over all differences lead to the Civil War and it was not solely because of slavery, but the right to live as they had for years. Before the war you had the upper and lower South who did not agree to secession at the same time. This caused a dividing line not only was the North and South divided the South was divided between its self. These eight states, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Maryland, and Delaware held most of the South’s resources. So it was imperative they join with the South. These eight states had the power in deciding the fate of the Confederacy by the side they joined. When Fort Sumter was fired upon they realized a decision must be made soon. One Virginian wrote, “We must either identify with the...
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...The Cold War was an indirect interaction between the U.S.A and the Soviet Union. The different ideas of government were one of the main reasons of why there was a war between the U.S and the Soviet Union. Not only that, many factors came along with the war, starting from 1945 other Countries and Nuclear weapons created tension between them. Economic competitions, policies, and plans also contributed to the creation of the Cold War and the finalization of it in 1991. The presidents at the time also influenced in big decisions making, and lead to a better or worse situation not only in the U.S and the Soviet Union, but also in many countries that were involved. During the late 19th Centaury the Soviet Union (USSR) was encouraging the pro-communist...
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...Battle of Antietam Single bloodiest day of the entire war Casualties: 12,000 Union, 13,000 Confederates McClellan had been ordered by Lincoln to destroy the rebel army did not pursue the Confederate troops Marked a major change in Northern war aims Emancipation Proclamation Shift in public opinion Blow against slavery would make Britain and France less likely to aid the South Weaken the confederacy Emancipate- "Free" all enslaved African Americans in the South On January 1st 1863 Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation Applied only to areas that the Confederacy controlled, it did not actually free anyone. Hoped it would encourage slaves to run away and many would Had the desired effect in Europe. Britain and France decided to withhold recognition of the Confederacy. Southern Victories In the winter of 1862- 1863 the south is winning The ride of war turns Lee decided to invade the North. In June of 1863 he begins moving north with 75000 troops. The two armies meet by accident on July 1st near the town of Gettysburg. Battle of Gettysburg Three days of fighting The Union held the high ground On the third day of battle, Lee decided to launch an attack the he hoped would destroy the Union army. Battle with largest number of casualties of the war. About 50,000 Often described as a turning point. It ended Lee's invasion of the North Pickett's Charge Around 14,000 Confederates advanced across and open field about a half-mile long. Barely half of the...
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...Starts off with audio/video addressing America on crisis The Cuban missile crisis was a suspenseful 13 day standoff between the Americans and the Soviet Union. It all started on October 14, 1962, when a high altitude U-2 plane took pictures of nuclear tipped IRBM (intermediate-range ballistic missiles) and MRBM (medium range ballistic missiles) in Cuba. The two proposals were set on the table: air strike and invade, or naval blockade. Ever since the Bay Pigs invasion, (which was an American led invasion where we got over 1200 Cuban refugees and sent them to Cuba to overthrow the government, but the effort failed) the Cubans wanted to be better protected. Cuba was allied with Soviet Union at that time and since the Cold War was going on between...
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...hard in WWI, and WW II, and the Cold War, and in the current war on terror, so the Civil War would not still be the dominant symbol of American patriotism, but it remains important. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2702949?uid=3739960&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21106146471671 Why did the South loose the War? The main reason was that the North had a 10 to 1 advantage in industrial workers. As general Sherman said to a southern colleague, "We can make a locomotive while you are hard pressed to turn out a pair of shoes." This disparity led to a 40 to 1 advantage in naval strength. Water power allowed the Union to build "Scott's Anaconda", a naval blockade which prevented the South from trading with the rest of the world (trading cotton for guns, for example). The trade embargo was devastating to the South's economy, and their soldiers were often equipped with inferior weapons, not enough food, and ragged and barefoot. It is astonishing that the war lasted as long as it did. The South's only advantage was the superiority of their generalship, and the fighting spirit of the private soldiers, but the best generals and the best soldiers could not win against the overwhelming material superiority of the North. Also, in each battle, the South lost the bravest men (and sometimes the best generals). The South could not afford their losses, but the North had a seemingly endless supply of reinforcements. One other disparity of the embargo was that the North...
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...Civil War Paper Learning Team A HIS/110 Professor Joe Getzlemen Historian Shelby Foote Shelby Foote was a writer and historian that became famous for his three-volume, 3,000-page books about the Civil War. In 1990, an 11-hour series on public television was shown based on his books.. With over 14 million viewers, he was instantly in the spotlight. Although he was not born until some 50 years after the Civil War, his great-grandfather was Confederate Captain Hezekiah William Foot, a slave owner. Shelby himself was born in Mississippi and lived in other southern states such as Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida. He attended the University of North Carolina but left to take a writing job at a Mississippi newspaper. When the United States joined the fight in World War II, Shelby joined the National Guard and reached the rank of captain. After being discharged in 1945 he returned home to Mississippi and began writing again. He published five books in five years, but it wasn’t until 1953 that he would begin his trilogy on the Civil War. During an appearance of the public broadcasting, he was quoted as saying “Any understanding of this nation has to be based…on an understanding of the Civil War…The Civil War defined us as what we are, and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things. It is very necessary if you’re going to understand the American character in the 20th century to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the mid-19th century. It was the crossroads...
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...Did the Military Situation Justify the Surprise Attack? This question has long been a topic of debate. One side believes this was the only way to end the war. After the bloody battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the United States needed the one last thing to push Japan to the point of surrender. Dropping the atomic bomb did cause mass chaos, casualties, and destruction to the Japanese Empire but it was necessary for the United States’ victory. In 1945, United States policymakers set a primary goal. The goal was to end the war with Japan as quickly as possible with minimum number of casualties. Even though the atom bombs caused over 140,000 deaths it saved many American lives by avoiding an invasion of Japan. The other side of the debate suggests that Japan’s navy was...
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...position a lasting stance on freedom for Americans no matter what color individuals appeared. Team B’s review of the civil wars may express what is unknown to some individuals, and what others family member fought for years ago. Even though civil wars caused death, if changes had not happen many Americans may still be slaves. Civil war was needed to stop the opposing thoughts of diversity in America. Because, of the foundation set in America for everyone, which appeared to outcast some chosen groups normally in the southern states. North and south states viewed certain individuals as unequal to other humans rendering freedom to those entities. Why the South lost the Civil War “If the Southern generals like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were so brilliant, and if the South lost fewer men than the North, why did the North win the war?” The reason for the South losing the war was not because of manpower, but location, location, location. Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Albert Sydney Johnston, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, and James Longstreet all trained at West Point Military Academy (Schultz, 2012). These officers had one more thing in common: They joined the Confederate army...
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...|Working Thesis Statement: |ORAL PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION | |Nuclear has been the biggest fear in the world when it is used as |Nuclear Threat Nuclear weapon and its physical damage | |weapon and it has insurmountable negative effects on societies in |Nuclear weapon deterioration of health – what kinds of radiation are | |terms of its physical destruction and deterioration on human health. |emitted in a nuclear explosion and what effect do they have on human | |Not a thesis statement but a statement of fact. |beings? | |Try: Why is it best for nuclear attack victims to be right at Ground |http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/ocr_gateway_pre_2011| |Zero? |/living_future/4_nuclear_radiation1.shtml | |Working Thesis Statement: Countries may use the nuclear weapons in |Oral Presentation Thesis Statement (must be based on PART of the | |future because of the possibility of religious war and the other |research project): The time between 1946 and 2012, no atomic bomb had| |reasons. |been used even as an overt thread threat in any warpolitical crisis, | |I will argue that there is a strong possibility that...
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...The United States of America stayed out of World War One for three years, therefore why did we declare war in Germany in 1917? This war merely started out with Serbia and Austria-Hungary until the alliances of these countries and the alliances’ allies were pulled into it. Therefore why would we put ourselves in this messy war in Europe? To answer this we are going to look at three things of relative importance: German naval policy, allied propaganda, Woodrow Wilson’s idealism thoughts (who was our President at the time), American economic interests and America's claim to world power. The German naval policy enforced submarine attacks on any opponents in the war receiving import or exporting supplies, therefore preventing food and war supplies to reach Britain. Germany’s blockade against Britain caused exactly what they wanted; it caused severe shortages of food and materials, Kaiser Wilhelm, the leader of Russia and this country later became a part of the Soviet Union in 1922, instructed the submarines to go on unrestricted warfare which allowed them to attack all merchant shipping, no matter where it came from. This included America which infuriated exporters and made them report to the government repeatedly. It also included supplies which were going into the United States...
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...to which the principal nations, mainly the USA and the Soviet Union fought proxy wars as a substitute for armed conflict with each other during the Cold War between 1945 – 1989. As the Second World War ended in 1945 with the victory of the allies, a new war was launched. It was a battle predominantly between the USA and the Soviet Union, between two conflicting ideologies: America’s capitalism versus and the Soviet Union’s communism. Ranging from two of the most devastating wars; the Korean War (1950) and the Vietnam war in the 60s, to the smaller conflicts in the Middle East and Africa in terms of the scale of the battle, every corner of the globe was involved in the Cold War. (Dunbabin 1994) The USA and the Soviet Union were the sole super powers at the end of the Second World War. There are a number of views regarding why the Cold war was unavoidable, and one of the reasons is that both countries were expansionist. The USA in particular was afraid of the Soviet sphere of influence over Europe in particular, believing that it needed to be contained. (Mowry, 1962) But on the part of the Soviet Union, it was also afraid of the USA’s power and its ideology which it believed to be evil and imperialist. This triggered ambitions of taking over Eastern Europe, whether driven by a defensive or offensive motive. As the ‘Iron Curtain’ was set up in Europe, it was clear that the tension between the Soviet Union and the USA led capitalist counterparts (Britain, France and other...
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...1. The Compromise of 1850 attempted to answer all of the contemporary issues pertaining to the institution of slavery. Describe the major positions on slavery and the contending issues about this institution in 1850. How did the terms of the Compromise of 1850 seek to resolve these issues? In 1850, there were five positions on the institution of slavery. The first position was anti-slavery. This was predominantly felt by those in the north. Those with this view felt slavery could exist in the south but could not be expanded into the new territories. They felt slavery should mostly for economic issues. Plantations with slaves produced higher quantities faster. This meant lower costs. The next position was the abolitionist position. This view was held by a very small minority in the north and almost none in the south. Abolitionists felt slavery should be ended everywhere, even in the south and should not be permitted to expand into the territories. There were two types of abolitionists. There were colonizers who not only wanted to end slavery in the south but they wanted people of color to be shipped to another country because they felt the different races would never get along. Colonizers thought black people could start their own colonies elsewhere. The second type of abolitionists was egalitarians. They, like colonizers, wanted slavery to end everywhere but they felt enslaved persons were Americans and therefore thought they were entitled to all the rights...
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...grandparent’s 600 acre farm in Grandview. When he was 6 years old his family moved into a small town called independence, so he could attend a Presbyterian Church Sunday school. Harry did not go...
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