The French Revolution was social and political turmoil or destruction that stayed around for about a decade and it changed human history. The central legacy of the Revolution is the move away from the theocracies and the monarchies. The french Revolution is one of the most important political events in human history. The Mexican-American War happened in the early 1800s and it was the territory of Texas that the Spanish, French, and the Americans claimed for 30 straight years. Mexico …show more content…
The European Nations had been in power for a minute and it was being eclipsed by two nations. The USSR and the United States. Both were strategically poised to take advantage of the war’s aftermath for economic and political gain. But both were smart and stood wary of each other since the USSR went communism and the United States went capitalism. In the beginning of the war, neither country was dying to fight and the conflict went in to an “uneasy Cold War”. No battles were fought although, the Cold War did last from 1947 to 1991 which were really a whole bunch of “proxy wars” such as Korea, Afghanistan, and Vietnam, political wrangling and an arms race for the development of very massive nuclear weapons and arsenals. The Soviet Union eventually fell off or collapsed in 1991, unable to keep up due to exhaustion of political and financial problems for decades of conflict in the