This meant that it was easier for them to supply their army with food and equipment that they needed giving them an advantage at the onset of the Civil war yet not one significant enough that it would prove to be the greatest reason they were victorious. The role of Franco is also a significant reason as to why the Nationalists win the civil war; his leadership contrasted greatly with the ineffectiveness of the Republicans to unite behind one strong leader and his relations with the International powers also helped the Nationalist to gain more ground over their opponents. ... However, althou...

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The end of the Civil War marked this transition from a more agricultural nation to an industrialized one. ... This direct relationship between the industrial development and population growth shows how the post-Civil War transformation had such consistent and rapid proliferation. ... The final major event of any diplomatic relations in this era was the Spanish-American War. ... The Spanish-American War is more a result of the Philippine Revolution and the Cuban War of Independence. ... An unexpected yet extremely important part of the post-Civil War transformation was the environmental chang...

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The United States and the Soviet Union became the two superpowers of the post - World War II era. ... The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. ... Although, I personally wo...

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A War Against Ourselves Drugs in America are sweeping the nation. ... The upcoming paragraphs will attempt to show how the War on Drugs is failing America because of the infringement upon American's civil liberties, racial bias-ness, and the massive amount of dollars being spent on a war which has become a stalemate. ... This obsession for a drug free society does nothing but create corruption, crime, and disease, and America, whose principals are based on freedom and whose freedom depends on our civil liberties being ensured, has failed its public because of this war which is takin...

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The Civil Rights Movement, undoubtedly, initiated the abolishment of most forms of legal discrimination. ... The Civil Rights Movement changed that. ... Media stereotypes and the residuum of pre-civil rights overt racism have plagued society's thinking. ... The Civil Rights Act of 1964 included the right of African Americans to vote. ... Whites, on the other hand, have been fleeing to suburban areas of the country since the end of the Second World War where nice houses and newer schools are located throughout. ...

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Another interpretation is that it was an emergency measure to deal with the economic crisis caused by war, revolution and civil war (Malle 1985). ... War communism was the policy pursued by The Bolshevik party during the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1920, until Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy. During the civil war Lenin had geared the economy towards the war against the opposition forces, the various strands of the divided "Whites". ... Major agricultural regions were occupied by the white armies during the Civil War, intensifying the food problem further. ... This last stage was ca...

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"Total wars" would have catalyzed development of strong states, but given the pre-existing limitations of Latin American states, they could not wage such wars, focusing instead on limited wars directed largely at internal foes-civil wars, if you will-that provided few of the state-building benefits of total wars. ... Thus, the conditions that existed in the Americas at the promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 had the U.S. as the regional hegemon, with all other Latin American states or pre-states more or less equal. ... The U.S. would have intervened well before the outbreak...

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" This film chronicles three major battles that took place during the Civil War, but more importantly, it portrayed Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's life and his endeavors throughout the Confederates' battles during the Civil War. The movie begins with a brief glimpse into Jackson's life, pre-Civil War, which portrays a simple, outright Christian, military husband who teaches at the Virginia Military Institute, and ends with a legendary figure dying of a rather simplistic case of pneumonia. ... As stated above, one of McCarthy's main intentions was to let his rea...

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Lenin had a clear direction as to what he wanted the Bolsheviks to do, and his pre-revolution strategy alone gave the Bolsheviks strength and set it in good stead. ... Their decision to continue with the war due to their commitment to the allies was a hugely unpopular move. ... The new Bolshevik Regime was threatened by two forms of war, the Great War and the Civil War, both in which Lenin played a minimal role in quelling the unrest. ... The Civil war, another challenge to the Bolshevik retention of power was also quelled largely by Trotsky's Red Army. ... Besides, the foreign troops wer...

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Reasons for Entering the War It initially entered the War over control of Mancuria and Korea as Russia wanted more power and land expansion. ... The Effects of War The more profound effect of the War was the shift in Russia's, and most importantly the Tsar's, reputation. ... Aside from this, many aspects of Russian life were affected by the War. ... Like other countries' democratic systems, Russians were calling for concessions- most namely a Duma and civil liberty like the right to free speech and press freedom. ... The pre-existing issues in Russia, and the Tsar's fail...

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Jefferson Davis stated in the pre-Civil War years to a Northern audience, "You say you are opposed to the expansion of slavery... ... As the opportunity for economic advancement increased after the Civil War, the North felt as though it had done its part and both the President and Congress hastily turned their backs on the new, colored American Citizens. ... With the Northern "victory" in the Civil War, African Americans were forever "freed from the bonds of servitude". ... The amendments to the Constitution had been made, but the whites did not take the time after 1866 to abolish the p...

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Pre 9/11 policy ensured some innocent Americans freedom, but because of policy change the American government can jail Americans indefinitely without a trial. All of these atrocities are policy changes and were meant to protect us from a tactic of war. ... Like the pre cogs in minority report, the NSA, using elaborate computer programs can predict ones actions based on game theory and preferences from information gathered from websites. ... Protection of Civil Liberties and Privacy in the Post 9/11 World In order to protect one's civil liberties and privacy one must began to write. .....

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Throughout the war, he had developed new beliefs on slavery and emancipation. ... This ultimately caused the start of the Civil War. ... During the Civil War, Lincoln developed the idea of compensated emancipation for the border states, in order to help preserve the Union and free the slaves. ... His beliefs had fluctuated "during the first two years of the Civil War," although his "aim was preservation of the Union, he devoted considerable energy to a plan for ending slavery inherited from pre war years." ... The proclamation had marked an essential transformation for the Civil War and future...

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From the times of the Anglo-Saxon wars of pre-middle ages to the struggle for hegemonic power with Spain and France over colonization rights and the system of mercantilism. ... Nearly every conflict, almost all attempts at peace, and most all civil wars spanning the globe have either seen the involvement or fallen under the close observation of English eyes. ... The war of 1812 was a depiction of English relentless cling to the land that it had lost. The United States Civil War of 1861-65 was also an instance of which Britain openly sided with the enemies of the union, the Confederacy. ......

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Russia has always seemed to have a rough and uneasy history littered with civil wars, coups, and ever-present change. ... This plunged Kievan Rus into almost 200 years of civil war, laying waste to most of Russia. ... The civil wars in Russia ultimately led to their downfall because they were already divided and so the enemy from the East need only conquer. ... Originally, pre-Mongolian invasion, the hub for the Orthodox Church was in Kiev. ...

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Huck Finn renders this requirement complete because it highlights the racist society that was ubiquitous throughout pre-Civil War South, while bringing out the raw emotional aspect to the novel, and adding another dimension to the objective history lessons taught in a classroom. ... The novel Huck Finn takes place in the antebellum South, however Mark Twain wrote it after the Civil War itself. Even during the post-Civil War era, Southerners showed strong racist sentiment towards African Americans through the Jim Crow laws and "separate but equal " treatment, influencing the nature of the novel...

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Our lack of feudal past helped to erode our pre-capitalist status, while the legacy of slavery kept inequalities between blacks and whites. ... In the third stage, increased social mobility and a greater sense of opportunity significantly erode pre-capitalist status differences and reduce (although by no means eliminating) the advantages deriving from inherited wealth" (Siedentop, 155). ... Yes, the lack of a feudal past helped to erode pre-capitalist status. ... The American Civil War ended the analogous feudal state of slavery. ... This occurred twice in America's history, most not...

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The film came out in 1929 and was heavily influenced by the historical events that pre-dated it during the early 1900s. ... At the time, Russia lagged economically behind European countries as a direct result of World War I from 1914-1918 and the Russian Civil War from 1917-1922. ... World War I and the Russian Civil War led to the establishment of a Communist government in Russia, which leveraged its tight control on the film industry in order to forge unity amongst all social classes. ... This treaty was fairly generous to Russia, since she was fighting a national civil war that was of highe...

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Civic nationalism is generally seen to be exercised in the areas in which there already exists a civil society, i.e. a group of people, each having a feeling of belonging to the same community, who are governed by and respect the rule of law. The people's national identity is said to arise from a sense of political community, within an area with defined geographical borders, which houses a culturally homogenous group, with equal rights under a legal system which is respected by the government - so indicating that civil nationalism and liberal democracy are complementary. ... Ethnic attach...

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" 8 Fifty years later, Japan's World War II experience proved disastrous, and, as McNamara and Blight argue, "The unconditional surrender of Japan made it possible for the United States and the West to force quick integration"9 of features of Western society, including the reorganization of Japan's schools. ... They immediately realized that the ultra-nationalistic curriculum favored before the war needed to be replaced with one that encouraged "individual dignity" and endeavored to "bring up people who love truth and peace.... For over one hundred year...

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In Greece, city-states unification was voluntary and occurred due to external pressure and threats such as the outbreak of the Persian wars (Sacks, Murray, and Lisa 56). ... In fact, self-interest that took precedence over empire interests among the Greece city-states contributed significantly towards the eruption of Peloponnesian war and many more series of conflicts and unrest that rendered Macedonia an easy target by outside aggression. ... The Greek were not tied to tangible imperial or the very least pre-imperial structures hence prone to civil wars and instability. It must be noted that ...

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Freedom House has ranked all independent countries from 1 (the best score) to 7 on civil liberties and political rights. ... Most recently, in 2002 and 2003, Mexico received a score of 4, due to an improvement in its civil liberties score, which dropped from a 3 to a 2. ... Mexico also encompasses a civil society that allows its people to manifest various social movements and is a part of the International Trade Union Confederation. ... The factors of its corruption are present due largely in part to Mexico's pre-democratic government (pre-2000), but are increasingly becoming forced to ad...

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Throughout the period of 1917 to 1941 the majority of the many changes in soviet foreign policy were not results of pre-determined ideology, but rather a pragmatism that resulted from the varying situations. ... The Spanish civil war caused uncertainties for the Soviet Union as they were unable to fully support the rebelling socialists due to their foreign policy and the necessity of an alliance with the British. ... Throughout the Period of 1917 to 1942 Soviet Foreign Policy changed its direction many times, however the incentive to do so was continually the result of practically and pragmati...

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As an effort to extol pre-conceived notions about African Americans, media over the years has displayed African American men with many negative stereotypes such as Sambo's, violent, criminals, senseless and pimps. ... The film recounts the Civil War in the eyes of the Klu Klux Klan and how they opposed the political and social progress made by newly freed Blacks. ... The negative media depiction has caused pre-conceived notions and unnecessary demise of young African American males. ...

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The economic policy at that time between the North and the South were simply the same rules, the same tax system and the same criminal and civil laws. ... From the emergence of 'il Brigantaggio' the Italian government feared as it seemed as though a real civil war may have occurred. ... Although the Italian identity has changed since pre-unification, there still are some advantages and disadvantages from this change, advantage being there is more of a diverse identity now and shared cultures compared to it solely being Italian. ...

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