Peasants' War

For Country and Freedom The war of 1812, so named for when it began, lasted 3 years, ending in1815 with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. This war was between The United States and Britain, with most battles being fought along the Canadian border, in the Chesapeake Bay region, and along the Gulf of Mexico. Since the American Revolution, the United States had grown more and more impatient with Britain’s failure to withdraw from American territory, their supporting the Indians fighting against…

In the novel The Sorrow of War, by Bao Ninh, it explores the internal struggle of a veteran; he had fought in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The main character of the novel, Kien, participated in the war on the day that it broke out and resigned on the day that it ended. He survives through the nineteen years of intense violence in the warfare. Not only did he fight in the Vietnam War, but also he was fighting in the front lines throughout the war, which decrease his chance of surviving…

Essay: In the aftermath of the Vietnam War (1955-1975) Cambodia’s political and social tensions rose so dramatically that they led to war with Vietnam. Cambodia went from celebrating their victory over the Americans to a nation on the brink of war with its neighbours. In the aftermath of the war, due to clashing communist ideologies, the countries, Cambodia and Vietnam, positioned themselves against each other. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge conducted mass purges that kill a million people and…

and voting privileges continued, and by the end of the century, women were voting in a few state elections. Finally, in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment gave women voting privileges throughout the United States.” (Perry 214) In addition, “During World War I, women worked in offices, factories, and service industries at jobs formerly held by men. Their wartime service made it clear that women played an essential role in the economic life of nations, and many political leaders argued for the…

economic status of their followers as well as the world history because of the policies they enact or decisions they make. One such person was the former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev who was born on 2nd March 1931 to peasant parents in the Stavropol territory in southwestern Russia (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). In spite of his poor background, he steadily rose through the ranks of the then ruling party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU),…

the Great War both shows the impact of “total war” on their societies and economies and addressed the demands of a modern, industrial war. In the beginning, before “total war” began, people were almost eager for war; there was no real memory of a long destructive war, so the idea of it could be romanticized. War could be associated with nationalism and demonstrating your manhood, national pride, and overall power over other nations (that you believe to be less than your own). The idea of war…

VIETNAM WAR 3 Vietnam War: Fighting Big Red The Vietnam War was an ongoing fight for multiple countries. The spread of communism was a widespread fear much of the world was unable to bear. Americans were among the majority of people that feared the expansion of communism, often referred to as the “Spread of Red”. There were many standpoints during the Vietnam War era,…

their opinions about the war (WWI and WWII). While millions of young men were killed in battle, the ideas of traditional Western art had changed. Artist such as George Grosz, Miné Okubo, Otto Dix, and Käthe Kollwitz reshaped art perception, and forever changed the perception of who we view war. Though, WWII had a bigger effect in the world, WWI’s classical dispute of the modern-day, not only politically but culturally as well. In Josephine Withers’s paper No More War: An Art Essay, Withers…

United States Pro-War The United States was up-against propaganda from many directions. The Americans found themselves in a war, unfamiliar to them. The status of the United States military was old, obsolete, and was geared for a strategic arsenal for traditional assaults as learned in the tactics deployed in World War Two (WWII). The early journey of the war was led through passivism. The American people were enjoying the fat of the economy following WWII. There was no immediate threat to the…

After becoming the complete leader of the USSR in 1929, Joseph Stalin put in place two economic policies: industrialization and collectivization. With industrialization, Stalin wanted to establish a war economy and prepare for war against its capitalist foes abroad through sets of Five-Year Plans. While collectivization was to create surplus food supplies that cold be sold abroad to raise capital for industry and decrease the number of rural workers and release workers for new factories. Seeing…