The Battle Algiers The movie, The Battle Algiers, tells the story of the events that transpired throughout the Algerian War of Independence. The conflict was between the population’s indigenous majority, the Algerians, and the French European settlers who colonized the land. The conflict became increasingly violent and ultimately the French Army was brought in to battle the Algerian rebellious group, The National Liberation Front. In the movie it is evident that although the French army successfully defeated the Algerian NLF group, when it came to the Algerian war as a whole, the Algerians were victorious. The guerilla war tactics that are demonstrated in this film were very disturbing to me.
But one of the hardest battle’s for the US was to keep their own countries support. In this essay I will be exploring the main factors of the Vietnam war between 1960-1975, looking at how they changed before, during and after ORT. Before ORT took place the aims of the US Government were to stop communist taking over South Vietnam (SV). As they feared that the Domino Theory would affect countries who were still capitalist. The rise in communist countries was increasing as other countries close to each other would follow the same route as nearby countries.
I believe that the Civil War began with the debate over the future of slavery. That very issue led to secession, and secession caused a war where the Northern states fought for the ground of the Union, and the South for their independence as a new confederation of states under its own constitution. It seems to me that any disagreement leads to some form of resentment. We tend to not like what we don’t understand, and it was hard for the North to understand why the Southern states were itching for freedom from them. It seems from a broader point of view that the North has gone through so much just for the Southern states of America to exist.
One of their major goals was to disrupt and destroy the South Vietnamese government. Orders were actually given to the invaders to cause maximum disruption to the government to create crisis by killing military and administrative personnel. This reason alone would do some serious damage to the government but another tactic was to kill for “…terrorism and warning.” By killing government officials and private citizens it scared the citizens of not just Hue but all over the area into compliance with the National Liberation Front. The communists also wanted to annihilate Christians for political reasons. The communists always tried to suppress religions anyway possible and because of Ngo Dinh Diem being Catholic and in charge of South Vietnam at the start of the resistance to the North.
He often spoke about the violence of racism, and frequently cited examples, which ranged from attacks from police dogs and their club-equipped guards, to being washed down by high-pressured water hoses in broad daylight. Malcolm believed these atrocities, and ones like them, to be linked to racism that had existed far before he and any African Americans of his day were born. Malcolm frequently referenced the exploitation of Africa, and cited that ancestors of African Americans reached the US on slave ships against their will. He did so in order to emphasize that white racism was not restricted to America, but was a global phenomenon that was organized by the most powerful forces of the times, whose desire for power could not be satisfied. By painting the picture that racism was an international issue, Malcolm attempted to convey that racism was not a random atrocity, but in fact, an ongoing international campaign to enslave those without power (nonwhites)
Despite the fact that slavery allowed white aristocrats to maintain power while fattening their wallets the thought of the enslavement of another human being caused Enlightened France to fight over their freedom of these people, even though it would hurt the economy, social, and political order of France. If slavery ended in Europe during this period, the economy would have no doubt been damaged in these nations. According to a report made by Antonie Barnave to the National Assembly’s Committee on the Colonies, he thought that if slaves received freedom then there would have been economic shock. Barnave even thought that slaves should eventually have freedom, but he also thought at the same time if the National Assembly were to give them that now then France would no doubt be hurt economically. This document is not biased, but Barnave’s point of view.
The hawks and doves were complete opposites, the hawk’s argument concluded that America must win the war in Vietnam in order to contain communism in Southeast Asia and preserve the nation’s prestige (Davidson-Gienapp-Heyrman-Lytle-Stroff, 2005). The doves on the other hand wanted the conflict in Vietnam ended immediately and the troops returned home. The political and social outcomes facing the United States because of the conflict in Vietnam ranged from a growing distrust of the decisions being made by the political leaders to the ever increasing cost of the conflict in Vietnam. The growing distrust helped to fuel the student unrest because the younger generation decided to voice their opinions and take a stand for those
There was a lot of controversy about these treaties and eventually the military had to step in. For European's this treaty meant that Africans has signed their powers away, but African's seen it as they had a sort of friendly treaty. Africa soon came to realize that this treaty was a fraudulent treaty and organized a military to fight for their land. (Iweriebor, 2011) Africa's military formed two groups one being the guerrilla warfare and the other being the direct military. Smaller decentralized places used the guerrilla warfare the most.
They were passed around from soldier to soldier, beaten, humiliated, and made a mockery while the soldiers had no mercy for their souls. They were brutally raped and murdered. Soldiers would even go so far as to shove things into the vaginal areas of the women and cut the small children open in order for them to be raped. They used a weapon
Mali’s conflict is a war over skin color. Skin color is rarely discussed as a major part in the conflict, but its importance shouldn’t be ignored. Malians started a military coup because the Malian army had difficulties trying to contain an uprising by Tuareg rebels, a military coup in the south. The uprising would eventually turn into a war on skin color. These rebels are known as the MNLA (National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad).