Peasants' War

and fit for war. Napoleon hoped to use the hospitals in Smolensk. However, when he got there, he soon realized that they were already full and lacked the room for his men. This was the last straw for Napoleon as he decided to leave his men there and personally retreat back to France. Not long after Napoleon retreated to France, the Grande Armée stumbled back into France full of illness and despair. His largest army in human history had been defeated thoroughly. By the time the war was over…

in the movie Troy, based off of Homer’s The Iliad. As long as the hierarchy has existed, there have been different tiers of power. A king, then a person in charge of the military, sometimes a great warrior, so on and so forth. Achilles was a great war hero, he was practically invisible. One of his flaws was his vulnerable heel that his mother neglected to dip in the river stix. Although he was well known for his fighting skills, he still did not have power over the king. In…

World War I, the first war that is generally understood to be a total war, affected soldiers from around the world fighting on the Eastern and Western fronts in various ways. The experiences that individuals faced are generally dependant on random factors of military rank, ethnicity, which of the fronts someone was stationed and the time said soldier was stationed. There seems to be two overall perspectives of how soldiers made sense of the war at the time of writing their first-hand accounts,…

to work with him because he felt it would keep the USSR from getting attacked, at least for a while. Being on Hitler’s side would also allow Stalin to acquire more land and give him time to prepare if he had to get dragged into war. So as of now, in the beginning of the war, the Axis Powers were Italy, Germany, and the USSR. However, Hitler ended up deciding to march into the USSR. This was called Operation Barbarossa and it took place June 22, 1941. The Nazi army bombed the city of Stalingrad…

slaves they owned since the poor could not afford slaves. Thus, it seems that these great civilizations lived different from one another. Despite their differences in lifestyles, one comparable attribute of Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt would be their religion. Both civilizations practiced a polytheistic religion which meant they believed in more than one god. Ancient Egypt was ruled by pharaohs. Pharaohs were the highest level in the Egyptian society and were considered close to the gods.…

The defeat the Crimean War impacted on Alexander II was massive, the humiliation and shock he felt in regards to the Russian military 's incapability and as truly a wake up to just what the government needed to do in order for Russia to both modernise and industrialise. The embarrassing loss in Crimea and the true nature of Russia 's backwardness genuinely portrayed just how crucial reform was, especially for Russia 's military. Alexander II was desperate to catch up to the west and regain…

found near his hometown, and while he was armed, he didn’t resist police. Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq represents a classic example of abuse of power, despite being courted by both the Arab and Western world at times. Saddam Hussein was the son of peasants, born in a village near the city of Tikrit in northern Iraq. His father died before he was born, and only several…

Americans’ real priorities were – rather than focusing on installing democracy, they were focusing on not installing communism. In an almost entirely Buddhist country, Diêm was a devout Roman Catholic, one who favoured the rich landowners over the peasants – a mistake that, combined with his ‘re-education’ policies, would prove to lose him a lot of support. The only place that support could go was to the Viêt Minh, who thrived on Diêm’s unpopular…

The Soviet Union was founded by the Bolshevik Party in November 1917. Their leader, Vladimir Lenin, established Communist rule after the end of the Civil War in Russia in 1921. The Communist regime’s central beliefs were based on the theories and ideas of Karl Marx. Marx believed in the creation of a classless society where all citizens were equal. The components of communism affected multiple aspects of the nation. Economically, the Soviet Union achieved little to none economic or industrial…

any nation in the West. Unfortunately, the USSR was made up mostly of poor peasants. Mostly, these peasants harvested crops using their hands and wooden plows. Therefore, to make the plan successful, he had to brings some changes in peasant way of harvesting crops and their lives. Stalin required two things from peasants: firstly, the peasants would have to pay heavy taxes to pay for his new factories and secondly, the peasants would have to produce more food for all of the new workers in the…