Conscription

This attitude was driven by the humiliating and unequal treaties Japan was forced to oblige to due to their military inferiority compared to the West. The Meiji government introduced universal conscription and a new army was modeled after the Prussian force and a navy after the British fleet. In order to transform the economy from an agrarian one to a developed industrial state, Japanese scholars went abroad to study Western science and language…

In the reading The Clan Records, why did Sol Chin-yong refuse to change his name? What were the consequences of his refusal? Sol Chin-Yong was an out and out pro-Japanese and had even helped the Japanese army out by giving them rice. Despite his pro-Japanese values he was reluctant to change his name because of his long and illustrious lineage, which led him to believe that by changing his name he would be disrespecting his ancestors and ending the Sol clan. As he was an influential member of…

them a liberal attitude and a staunch abolitionist point of view. As the Civil War began, many of these German intellectuals and farmers opposed secession from the union. In the summer of 1862, they planned to travel to Mexico in order to avoid conscription into the Confederate army. A group of 94 Confederate soldiers led by lieutenant McRae followed after them. They approached the Germans in the night and massacred them with little resistance. While the Confederates only lost two men, 27 of the…

first for the succession of the southern states out of the Union and then, in turn, resisted against the Confederacy, opposing its impressments of goods and slave labor and the Confederate draft. State after state followed him, protesting against conscription and the Confederacy. Ultimately, Brown’s and his followers’…

Napoleonic wars refer to the wars of the Napoleonic wars in the period of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). It led to major changes in the military and artillery of Europe, particularly the military system. Because the implementation of the national conscription system, making the war a huge scale, unprecedented. France, the rapid rise of national power, dominated Europe; but after the defeat of the invasion of Russia, the national potential plummeted. Napoleon's empire was eventually defeated,…

A democracy is founded on the principles of liberty and justice for all, with no exceptions. Is there a time where it is acceptable, or even right, to strip the rights of an individual or a group to maintain said democracy? The source presented definitely believes that there is. Although it acknowledges the fact that rights and freedoms are essential to a democracy; it also describes the temporary suspension of those rights and freedoms at certain times necessary to preserve democracy. This…

Slavery in the United States was legal in all of the original states, but as time went on Northern State began to abolish it. Compromises were made as new states were brought into the Union. After more territory was added to the US these compromises became increasingly strained. Numerous problems arose as the slave to free state balance was disturbed when California became a state in 1850. Then In 1854 there was an internal war in Kansas over the decisions to be a free state. Not only did the…

In 1888, Otto von Bismarck remarked that “the next great European war will probably come out of some damn foolish thing in the Balkans.” (Massie, p. 82) At the time, he was referring to the aftermath of the Serbo-Bulgarian war, which managed, in a series of resonating blows, to shatter the Ottoman Empire’s tenuous grasp on the Balkans and splinter the League of Three Empires. Over the next forty years, the ever-fluid situation in the Balkans ebbed and flowed, but never strayed far from a point…

Between 1914 and 1918, government control over people’s lives increased. Some of the sources support the view that this was because of the need to feed the people, but other sources suggest different reasons. The government enhanced the control over people’s lives, in order to stabilise the country and to put order in a time of war, so that the strengthening of the inner positions of Britain would gain them advantage on focusing on the war. Since the 8th August 1914, with the establishment of…

unemployment. “In 1927 Dachau had the highest employment rate in Germany”. (Merriman and Winter) To curb the mass unemployment in 1933 local officials officially requested that the former munitions buildings be redesignated as “militia or work conscription camps”. (Merriman and Winter) Himler chose Dachau to house political opponents while Nazis consolidated their power. The labor force grew from 2000 inmates to about 2600 in 1933, then abruptly dropped to 1300 causing Hitler to have thoughts of…