Chinese Civil War

evil acts (Holy War). Document 4 depicts the Jewish man, Leon Trotsky, as a devil. This piece of propaganda was created by the White Army to attack The Red Army and the Jews. The White Army opposed Trotsky and the Red army in the Russian civil war. They created this piece to condemn the Red army by showing them as the cause to the brutal Russian Civil War. They blamed the Jewish people and Trotsky of causing the civil war by showing that the Jews and the Red army sided with the Chinese. Trotsky…

unclear what the final cause of the civil war was, but there is no doubt in any historian's mind slavery had a massive impact on the war. The major difference between the south and north was plainly that the south had slaves and north had cities. The book makes it very clear that slaves played a big role in the civil war. Hundreds of thousands of slaves fought in the civil war and among them were black men that had escaped their plantations to fight in the war. This compounding effect of losing…

White supremacist movements in the South during the end of the Civil war affected African Americans immensely – black people were treated unfairly and received major backlash from majority of white southerners with violence, intimidation and legislation that inhibited black southerners for the majority of the early twentieth century. A lot of this backlash from white southerners was due to the rejection of the idea white supremacy; white supremacy proved to be insufficient to sustain order,…

It took the Civil War to try to end this nonsense. Even after the Union won, the confederates were not done and found a way around “segregation” and this way was in the form of black codes and Jim Crow laws. Black codes were laws that were passed to segregate against…

In the past, American called Asian Americans “Oriental”. Since the end of nineteenth century, Asian Americans have been excluded and repressed in the United States, in 1882 America released the “Chinese Exclusion Act Chinese”. By this influence, the immigrants with the East Asian descent are defined as "non domestication" and are deprived of their citizenship by naturalization. Those Asian Americans who living in overseas, can only as a second-class, even third…

The ¨Gilded Age¨ (1870-1896) was a term created by author Mark Twain used to describe the years after Reconstruction. During the Gilded Age there were 5 presidents who took office during the 26 years of the Gilded Age. Those presidents being Rutherford B. Hayes,Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, and James Garfield. Out of all these individuals the president who in my opinion performed the best during the Gilded Age would have to be Grover Cleveland. Even though Grover wasn’t…

From April in 1861 to the spring in 1865, a war was fought between the Union and Confederate states of America. It was a bloody battle resulting in a total death estimate of 620,000 men, and is believed to be responsible for the most militaristic deaths in American wars. After 10 bloody battles and the end of the Civil War, the United States was introduced to new military innovations and strategies, African American slaves being freed and entering society as citizens, and the changing of minds…

Over the course of four years, this country was torn apart in one of the bloodiest wars it 's ever seen, one that would now be recognized as the watershed of a new modern age. The subsequent decade of reconstruction was full of change, both good and bad, which would play a key role in molding the future of the union. This change came in numerous different forms, and swept across the north and the south alike. A surprising cultural shift came in the form of both new religious awakenings, and the…

Children and Youth to the American Civil War Political figures, leaders in power, and symbolic individuals such as Abraham Lincoln, and Ulysses S. Grant, are generally perceived by many to be major factors in the outcome of the Civil War. However, ordinary people that played smaller, although still significant roles are often forgotten; in particular, children and youth, including college boys who campaigned and raised anti-slavery awareness as well as fought in the war, young boys who engaged…

During the time after the Civil War, America needed a physical strategy to unite one another; the Transcontinental Railroad did just that. The railroad was one of the most impressive engineering projects in the United States. It generated a huge economic and social boost, in addition to creating an effective means of transportation, which assisted in the development of the United States. Although the Transcontinental Railroad helped to develop new opportunities for the American people, it had…