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…The newly established republic in the years before the war was a system where a so called “old spain” lost its power to “new spain.” The Civil War was an effect of the unwillingness of “old Spain” to recede from the political scene. A main cause…

…During both the civil war and civil war reconstruction time periods, there were many changes going on in the Union. The Emancipation Proclamation, as well as legislation such as the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, was causing a new…

…Stalin's harsh rule during the Cold War led to increased criticism and suspicion at local and international levels and raised concern for containment officials in the United States. His communist world of censorship in Eastern Europe created many…

…In this paper I will be examining three short readings, all written from the authors own personal perspectives, about events involving the Spanish Civil War. The first reading, "To Tilt at Windmills", was written by Fred Thomas, a British citizen who…

…Sun-Tzu Wu is the reputed author of the Chinese classic Ping-fa (The Art of War), written approximately 475-221 B. C. Penned at a time when China was divided into six or seven states that often resorted to war with each other in their struggles…

…For Whom the Bell Tolls tells the interesting story of Robert Jordan, who is a college teacher, and American supporter of the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Within a short span of sixty-eight hours, Jordan gets involvement…

…A cold war, by definition, is a state of political tension and military rivalry between nations that stops short of full-scale war. It typically involves ideological, geopolitical, and economic strains between two or more nations but it never results…

…father was on a military mission. Haunted, perplexed and doubtful in questioning the cold war foreign policies Why did Hunt avoid teaching about the war? What finally made him decide to write this book? He wrote at the end of the war brought peace…

…The American Civil War The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the events surrounding the end of the American Civil War. This war was a war of epic proportion. Never before and not since have so many Americans died in battle…

…Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president from 1945-1953 greatly exaggerated Russia’s power and “scared” the U.S. citizens and government into a Cold War and power struggle. After World War II it was inevitable there would be a power struggle, as the two most…