No one knows when war first started but experts believe it existed long before civilizations rose and fell. The cavemen used to fight one another with rocks, sticks and weapons made of animal bones. Ancient civilizations preferred the act of warfare by making weapons out of metals like bronze and iron. Ancient Rome, Greece, Persia, Egypt and Sumer prospered through conquests achieved through warfare
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Cuba was not the only troubled island nation in Latin America in the 1960s. Many countries experienced a shift toward the political left and were disrupted by a series of coups and assassinations, one of these nations is the Dominican republic. The Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, assassinated in 1961, was succeeded by Juan Bosch, the first …
In 1986 the 30-year reign of the Duvalier family ended when “President for Life” Jean-Claude Duvalier was forced into exile. The people of Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, hoped that they would soon have a democratic government. The military regime that first took control of the government reluctantly allowed an election to …
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Events in the last several decades have given rise to new political and social pressures in Latin American society. By the early 1990s, most of the countries of Latin America were moving toward constitutional government. Women are one emerging political force. The struggle for women’s right to vote began in Latin America around World War …
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During and just after World War II, the nations of the Western Hemisphere entered into several mutual pacts. Many political leaders viewed such pacts as necessary steps to contain communism. Inter-American cooperation went a step further in 1948, when delegates from the nations of the Western Hemisphere met at Bogota, Colombia, and founded the …
British Withdrawal from the Middle East Like the French, the British also faced major challenges to their influence and position in the Middle East after World War II. During the war, Britain had stationed huge numbers of troops in Egypt to protect its interests. As in World War I, the British, supported by the …
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Introduction I hope I am not the only person who is baffled by this but I have noticed that The current Presidents of Russia and Ukraine have very similar first names, The Russian President is called Vladimirwhile the Ukrainian President is called Volodymyr. I see this is quite baffling because these are heads of states of …
In August 1914, Europe plunged into world war I. European countries found themselves in desperate need of war materials, equipment and supplies. Many of their former factory workers, however, were men who were now serving as soldiers. In Europe and the United States which entered the war in 1917, women took on jobs formerly held …
World War I was an industrialized war. Industry produced weapons with the same efficient mass production methods that it had applied to other products. One of the most important new weapons of World War I was the machine gun. Its sweeping, rapid-fire spray of bullets was deadly and often made infantry advances terribly costly. To …
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Wars have been fought throughout history. What has determined the outcomes of these wars? One answer is the bravery-or cowardice-of the individual soldier. Another factor that determines the outcomes of these wars is the skill of the commander. The outcomes of battles and wars, however, have often been decided by the kinds of weapons …
The greatest upheaval in Latin America during the age of imperialism was the Mexican Revolution. For 35 years, one dictator, Porfirio Diaz, had dominated Mexico. He had permitted foreign companies to develop many of Mexico’s natural resources and had allowed major landowners to buy much of the country’s land from poor peasants. In 1910, when …
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