Guadalcanal is a large mountainous island with tropical rainforests and sandy beaches. It is a province of the Solomon Islands, an independent island state located north-east of Australia in the Pacific Ocean. Guadalcanal is known for its diving and snorkeling sites where the wreckage of ships and planes from the Battle of Guadalcanal. The Battle for Guadalcanal between American and Japanese troops was one of the most strategic battles of WWII (www.guadalcanal.com; www.history.com).…
The Seven Years War (1756-1763) was one of the major conflicts in history since the fall of Rome. It had Bourbon King Louis XV on one side trying as hard as possible to repeat the golden days of Louis XIV and Frederick II of an emerging Prussia backed by British gold provided by William Pitt on the other.…
Who were and what was life like for Native Americans early on? Native Americans were the people who occupied North America prior to European explores and colonist arriving. Native Americans or Indians were comprised of many different groups or tribes the spanned the entire continent. The Indian tribes differed from one region to the next some were more reliant on agriculture, some relied heavily on hunting and fish and limited crops, while others spent more time gathering and hunting. What was freedom to the Indians? There ideas of life didn’t look at freedom as we see it today and were more in tune with their surroundings and nature. This all changed or was altered when the people of Europe began looking for new trade routes to Asia.…
The famous Battle of Hastings did not take place in Hastings! It was actually waged at Senlac Hill – which is about 6 miles (10km) north-west of Hastings. “The battle at Senlac Hill” certainly doesn’t have the same ring to it as “The Battle of Hastings”!…
“The title to territory of indefinite but confessedly very large extent is in dispute between Great Britain and the Republic of Venezuela. . . . Venezuela can hope to establish her claim only through peaceful methods. . . . The Government of the United States has made it clear to Great Britain that the controversy is one in which both its honor and its interests are involved. . . . The people of the United States have a vital interests in the cause of popular self-government. . . . To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition. . . . Its infinite resources combined with its isolated position render it master of the situation and practically invulnerable as against any or all other powers. . . . All the advantages of this superiority are at once imperiled if the principle be admitted that European powers may convert American States into colonies or provinces of their own. . . . Great Britain can not be deemed a South American state within the purview of the Monroe Doctrine. . . . It being clear, therefore, that the United States may legitimately insist upon the merits of the boundary question being determined, it is equally clear that there is but one feasible mode of determining them, viz., peaceful arbitration.” Richard Olney, Secretary of State, 1895.…
Strong American intervention in the Venezuelan boundary dispute of 1895-96 demonstrated an aggressive new assertion of the Monroe Doctrine and led to a new British willingness to accept American domination in the Western Hemisphere. Longtime American involvement in Hawai’i climaxed in 1893 in a revolution against native rule by white planters. President Cleveland temporarily refused to annex the islands, but the question of incorporating Hawai’i into the United States triggered the first full-fledged imperialistic debate in American history.…
Japans foreign policy was initially a response to western intimidation however it soon took on its own imperialistic traits that were backed heavily by new found nationalism. It was this nationalism that altered the balance of Japanese foreign policy and triggered the start of the Pacific War. It was this in conjunction with the instilled military dominance of political Japan and the string of disappointing foreign policy set backs that led to their adoption of more aggressive foreign measures, which can consequently be considered as a primary driving force on the road to the Pacific war.…
The war of 1812 was a war fought between America and England. With having the revolutionary war only a few years before, they were enemies but still allies that traded for goods and supplies.When they closed down their harbors they had nothing left to trade so going to war was the only option. Plus the British gave the Indians guns to fight against us with, and said that they wouldn't take their land if they won. The war had to be fought with something, so I’ll tell you what weaponry they used during the war, the naval and medical advances leading up to the war and also what black sailors did and how they affected the war. So on June 18, 1812, they went to war on each other.…
The British Seaborne Empire, by naval historian Jeremy Black, is a narrative of the British Empire through the lens of seaborne trade, military power projection, and marine exploration. Jeremy Black focuses on the maritime tradition of Britain. He examines how Britain’s identity has been shaped by her interactions with, and across, the sea. He identifies the origins of this maritime tradition with the trading network fostered by Rome, and traces it through to the present day. The book suffers from two major problems, both of which could be fixed by a question that does not distort what he seeks to define. Black’s use of a narrative format that follows the rise and fall of empire, and which focuses on just the maritime tradition, leads him to an analysis hobbled by comparisons. These comparisons do not indicate the scope and domain of influence by which Empire is identified. Furthermore, he is concerned solely with the masculine pursuits of military conquest, trade, and power projection. The book misses…
The dirty war in Argentina started in 1976 after a military coup on March 25 of that year brought General Jorge Videla to power. The coup was the military 's response to the disorder and deteriorating economic conditions that preceded it. The disorder was marked…
Britain was very inconsistent in the way that they dealt with Italy’s full scale invasion of Abyssinia, now known as Ethiopia, on the 3rd of October 1935, after having vowed to completely erase Abyssinia from the face of the map. As a result of this lack of consistency, I disagree with this view.…
GOU and the coup of 4th June 1943 (also compete Student Study section p14 Q a and b of Mimmack)…
General Videla could no longer control his allies: even under the patriotism that fell upon Argentina when it won the World Cup in 1978, Jorge Videla still had to put down hard-line rebellions around the country. Dissent soon reached a point where moderates and Argentina’s middle class began to rebel with its long-standing extremists. In light of their lost children and husbands, a group of mothers started the movement of protest against Argentina’s government. To this day, the Madres de Plaza de Mayo continue to march in silent vigil. In concert with public disapproval, Argentina went through yet another economic contraction and bureaucratic shakeup. During yet another change of power, General Leopoldo Galtieri became the new de facto president. As president, Galtieri ordered the Argentine military to retake the sparsely populated Islas Malvinas, known as the Falkland Islands in English. The small, poorly fortified garrison quickly fell and Leopoldo Galtieri rode a new wave of national pride to continue his rule. Previously used as a coaling station, the Falklands fell out of Britain’s view with the advent of diesel-fueled warships. Whilst the Falklands were technically owned by Britain, “The Malvinas nonetheless appeared on every schoolchild map of Argentina, and patriotic pride was always just below the surface” (Brown 244). After Galtieri ‘liberated’ the Malvinas, he stationed poorly trained and equipped troops in the area. Although argentina took it back, it was only because britain was not aware. Britain brought its main forces and easily obliterated the Argentine military. As one Argentine recruit put it, “I told them in one conversation that I’d only done five shooting tests and had fifty days’ training, they banged their heads on the walls. They couldn’t understand it… All the english soldiers had had at least three years of training. And…
The Dirty War in Argentina was led by a small council referred to as a junta between the years 1976 and 1983. The junta was commanded by a man by the name of Jorge Videla who took control of Argentina during poor economic times. Videla had the idea that to reform the country into what it should be, he had to instill the principles of good Christian faith and conservatism back into its people. In order to do so, Videla took drastic measures to get what he wanted. By and large, the military led by Videla targeted every day civilians who chose to live by different standards, these people being students, union workers, political activists, reporters, etc. He considered these people to be terrorists, and that they were the ones responsible for the decline of Argentina. Rather than immediately killing them, he kidnapped them, vanishing them essentially from the face of the earth, never to be seen or heard from again (Argentina's History and the Dirty War).…
disagreements on territories that had been conquerd.There was no consensus as regards the future of…