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  • ...nited States in the second war, successfully defeating the Chinese in both wars. The Second Opium War (1856-1860), as it was called, was the most critical, ...f the Qing court held reservations given their bitter defeats in the Opium Wars.<ref>Esherick, Joseph W. 1987. <i>The Origins of the Boxer Uprising</i>. Be
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  • ...st Edward I, see: Traquair, P. (1998). <i>Freedom’s sword: Scottland’s wars of Independence</i>. London: HarperCollins. </ref>
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  • ...ions of northern Texas as part of his beat-down of Spain in the Napoleonic Wars. But there was hardly time to ship famous French Tricolours to the region b
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  • Logistics win wars. Logistics is the coordination of complex operations such as moving, housin
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  • ...kCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=dbb7f8cf47e68e9f567313f57c42a1f8 Stalin's Wars]''. Yale: Yale University Press, 2006. Pages 121-133.</ref>
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  • Additionally, the two sides were locked in a series of crises and wars across the globe. The Soviet Union began construction on the infamous Berli
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  • ...inning, slaves were often captured by other Africans in their inter-tribal wars. However, the New World presented itself as a vast area that needed a lot o
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  • ...the early years of his reign were fraught with problems with the nobility, wars with the low countries, conspiracies, and ongoing conflict between Catholic ...rsailles also became a drain on the treasury.<ref>For more on Louis' early wars and finances, see: Young, William. 2004. <i>International Politics and Warf
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  • ...garnered acclaim for their bravery, skill, and tenacity during the Indian Wars of the 19th Century. ...ng decade proved to be even more bloody and destructive as the vile Indian Wars continued in the American West.
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  • ...American Revolution (1776), the Haitian Revolution (1791), and the Spanish Wars of Independence (1810s & 1820s). Langley justifies his choice of revolution ...nts, and unanticipated patterns of violence )that shaped the course of the wars, and the subsequent state-formation and the political cultures that develo
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  • ...ll developed historical interpretation of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanual Kant and others, and the ...of popular mobilization of the Terror and the repression of the Napoleonic Wars, Chamisso focuses less on ideas of equality and more on manifestations of l
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  • ...most nations were still using gold to back their currencies. But the world wars changed the world’s economic order and how the leaders of nations would c
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  • ...ed him to order the massive bombing of North Vietnam and to conduct covert wars in Laos and Cambodia. There are those who argued against Stone’s view, in
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  • ...history of Europe, 1945-2000: recovery and transformation after two World Wars </i>. 1st ed. New York, Berghahn Books. Europe's experience in World War II
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  • ...wers and actions presidents have taken. Perhaps an example of this are the wars and conflicts the United States has fought over the last 70 years without f ...s been harder to define and the public's expectation has shifted where the wars were harder to argue as being part of the nation's interest. Conflicts have
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  • ...wers and actions presidents have taken. Perhaps an example of this are the wars and conflicts the United States has fought over the last 70 years without f ...s been harder to define and the public's expectation has shifted where the wars were harder to argue as being part of the nation's interest. Conflicts have
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  • ...ced to the United States. For instance, the Civil War was one of the first wars in world history where rifles were used extensively. The telegraph was used ...e nineteenth century, Sweden was still a superpower and often embroiled in wars that many of the commoners believed benefited them little, which was enough
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  • Among all the Indian Wars fought between the United States and the hundreds of American Indian tribes
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  • ...unt of currency allowed in circulation. <ref> Rickards, James. <i>Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis.</i> (New York: Penguin, 2012), p. 43 ...ed government leaders to reassess their fiscal policies. Since most modern wars are paid for by debt, the United States government left the gold standard a
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  • ...ode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=7e4161c63153b4728e621eab7f8e3f79 The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown] (Yale Univ. Press, 2012)
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  • ...arbor led to massive American involvement in both the Atlantic and Pacific Wars. Propping up the Western Allies, U.S.-led troops occupied most of Western E
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  • ...was a strong advocate of the League as he believed it would prevent future wars.
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  • [[File:Thevietnamwar.jpg|left|thumbnail|250px|<i>The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990</i> by Marilyn R. Young]] ...upted in every part of the United States. Marilyn Young’s <i>The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990</i> examines the fine details of American involvement in Vietnam.
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  • ...United States and Mexico. This issue was not resolved for many decades and wars between Mexico, the Commanche, and the United States continued through the
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  • ...r several months of negotiating, which was hampered by the still undecided wars in Europe and the Pacific, the leaders of the Allied nations agreed to send ...ion and reasonable notice was required. <ref> Rickards, James. <i>Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis.</i> (New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 20
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  • ...neutral course between England and France during the French Revolutionary Wars were made extremely difficult by the intense rhetoric flowing from the pro- ...able value, they must derive from union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves, which so frequently afflict neighboring countries not t
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  • ...d would join the war in the hopes of regaining territories lost in earlier wars. The commissioners believed that Spain had an interest in maintaining a sec
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  • ...ted from 1789 until 1799. The Revolution precipitated a series of European wars, forcing the United States to articulate a clear policy of neutrality in or
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  • ...ary government, the Directory, experienced problems financing its European wars. Many leaders were also angry that the United States had concluded the Jay
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  • ...se allegiance to the Ottoman Empire. The United States fought two separate wars with Tripoli (1801–1805) and Algiers (1815–1816), although at other tim ...le: [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/barbary-wars | Barbary Wars, 1801–1805 and 1815–1816]
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  • The Napoleonic Wars continued the Wars of the French Revolution. Great Britain and France fought for European supr The Napoleonic Wars marked a period of U.S. weakness in the face of British power. However, in
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  • The Napoleonic Wars continued the Wars of the French Revolution. Great Britain and France fought for European supr The Napoleonic Wars marked a period of U.S. weakness in the face of British power. However, in
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  • ...the United States Army suffered its worst defeat of the entire U.S.-Indian Wars. The battle, alternatively known as St. Clair's Defeat, the Battle of the W
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  • ...ist” movement that argued the United States should steer clear of future wars and remain neutral by avoiding financial deals with countries at war. The R ...port embargo to any additional “articles or materials.” Finally, civil wars would also fall under the terms of the Act.
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  • ...s]], President George Washington had advocated non-involvement in European wars and politics. For much of the nineteenth century, the expanse of the Atlant
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  • ...st notably the Atlantic Charter of August 1941, which called for an end to wars of aggression and the promotion of disarmament and collective security. Roo
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  • ...ally during World War II. With relations already complicated by the Opium Wars and the Treaties of Wangxia and Tianjian>, the increasingly harsh restricti
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  • ...ic that an international organization was the best means to prevent future wars. The Senate approved the UN Charter on July 28, 1945, by a vote of 89 to 2.
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  • ====Civil Wars, Soviet Coups and Communist support in elections concerned the United State
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  • ...re ruled by dictators or military juntas for decades or endured long civil wars. Some European governments welcomed a new relationship with their former co
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  • ...greements reached between the Western powers and China following the Opium Wars came to be known as the “unequal treaties” because in practice they gav
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  • During the Napoleonic wars, Napoleon moved away from religious symbolism and propaganda to a more secu ...lobally through radio and even television such as through films. The World Wars and Cold War greatly accelerated the use of new media and sometimes not onl
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  • ...Because the language of the pact established the important point that only wars of aggression – not military acts of self-defense – would be covered un
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