The most available land was along the coast to the south, a region that was controlled by an Indianized trading state known a Champa. Over the next several hundred years, rivalry with the Champa led to an almost constant state of war between the two countries. ... Until the last years of the Vietnam War, more than eighty percent of the Vietnamese people lived on the land. ...
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. ... Efforts at compromise failed, and both sides prepared for war. ... The strategy of the anti-slavery forces was containment - to stop the expansion and thus put slavery on a path to gradual extinction. The slave-holding interests in the South denounced this strategy as infringing upon their Constitutional rights. ... Previous regional independence movements such as the Gr...
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. ... Efforts at compromise failed, and both sides prepared for war. ... The strategy of the anti-slavery forces was containment - to stop the expansion and thus put slavery on a path to gradual extinction. The slave-holding interests in the South denounced this strategy as infringing upon their Constitutional rights. ... Previous regional independence movements such as the Gr...
As a result, Indian attitudes towards the courts and litigation as a strategy are changing. ... Modern historians see even the famous treaties with the Iroquois confederacy not simply in terms of rights, but as part of British political strategies designed to deal with the French and with the other tribes further inland. ... When the British defeated the French, Indians could no longer play one colonial power off against another. ... The Canadian legal system, in the years after World War II, recognized no Indian rights as such. ... If Canadian law had given Indians rights, Indi...
The Germans had occupied Ypres for a brief time, however, the British Expeditionary Force took the town and held it for the reminder of the war. ... Trench systems were built surrounding the area of Ypres and remained in the Western Front through out the rest of the war. ... Von Falkenhayn was the Prussian Minister of war; he had guts and nerves, which the other previous general lacked. ... As well, the Indian Corps and Haig's I corps was arriving soon. ... This strategy messed up the British position, which made it easier for the infantry to attack. ...
In order to find a way of negotiating their rights with Ottawa, Riel proposed that another convention of 20 French-speaking and 20 English-speaking representatives be called to draw up a new list of rights. ... His program was a moderate one, directed as much towards the Indians and the white settlers as to the M&eac...
After WWII, Germany, as well as Berlin, was divided among the U.S., Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. ... However, the U.S., Great Britain, and France combined their sections in an effort against the Soviets. ... The U.S. entered into the war on South Korea's side and this action brought China into the war. ... The competing strategies of both nations continued until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 . ... That is why countries like the U.S., Great Britain, France, and others should send support to help North Korea. ...
Some, feeding of the ideals espoused in the American and French revolutions, and taking advantage of England's weakness during the American Revolution, saw the reasons and opportunity for independence from Britain. Wolfe Tone founded the Society of United Irishmen and with the assistance of the French, tried to launch a full-scale rebellion against British rule in 1798. ... The statement was a prelude to what became known as the twin track strategy of "the armalite and the ballot box--pursuing republican goals through both violent and political means. ... England and Ireland were rul...
Many members of HaShomer joined the Jewish Legion, which fought with the British against imperial Germany during World War I. They also established a precedent of armed self-defense of the Zionist movement, which during the War of Independence in 1948 would flower into the IDF. ... With the outbreak of World War II, Irgun leaders settled on a policy of cooperation with the British in the war effort; but a hard core within the organization opposed the policy and accordingly split off from the larger body. ... During World War II, about 32,000 Palestinian Jews, both men and women, volunteered ...
What the government has done, since the inception of the immigration program, is divide immigrants into different categories and then to assign those categories a different priority rating and assessment strategy. ... Members of the family class include: • spouses, common-law or conjugal partners 16 years of age or older; • parents and grandparents; • dependent children, including adopted children; • children under 18 years of age whom you intend to adopt; • brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces or grandchildren who are orphans; under the age of 18 and ...
This was brought to a halt by the First World War and the bout of anti-free trade protectionism that led to the Great Depression in 1930. ... The end of the Second World War brought another great expansion of capitalism with the development of multinational companies interested in producing and selling in the domestic markets of nations around the world. ... The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union ended the cold war between the forces of capitalism and socialism with capitalism triumphant. ... The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was established in the wake of the Wor...
