The war was triggered by the victory of Abraham Lincoln in the elections of 1860. FACTORS THAT MADE THE CIVIL WAR IRREPRESSIBLE In these elections. The Republican Party led by Lincoln won, beating three other candidates. The southerners did not vote for him so his victory was seen as a northern affair. His speech, given in 1858, stated that, a divided house cannot stand and visualized that America can not endure a “half-slave and half-free.” This clearly showed that he was a moderate and was therefore not up to task, in the views of the southerners, to be able to tackle the abolitionist they perceived as a threat.
How far do you agree that the Bolsheviks won the civil war of 1918-1921 because they controlled more people and had access to more weapons? I believe that the Bolsheviks winning the civil war, was not totally to do with their access to more weapons and had more people on side. Of course this is quite a big factor to why they did win the war, but there also other factors such Trotsky’s leadership of the red army and the territory that they had control over and also similarly the great tactics they used to win their battles. The Bolsheviks did control much more people and did have bigger access to more weapons than the white army. This is a massive key factor to why the Bolsheviks had won the war because without the people that they controlled they would of not of been able to make all the weapons and the most essential things that they needed to win the war against the whites.
Our nation struggled to establish and economy but after years of becoming economically stronger and industrialized what we stood for would be forgotten. The civil war happened for many reasons; it reestablished what our country stood for and kept the union together. The differences between the north and south would eventually need to be resolved. War did not have to be the answer but if the war did not happen slavery could have gone on for much longer. When our country was established, inhabitants of the southern colonies shared a great deal with the northern colonist.
When he returned he rallied the people against the betraying Germans. This rise in patriotism gave the Russians strength to fight and overcome their enemies, despite having inadequate leaders due to the purges. However, it was also Stalin’s gradual build up of resources that left Russia victorious in 1945. Ultimately one of Russia’s greatest strengths was its size. Russia was easily three times as big as Germany meaning that the leadership could take an almost disposable view of their soldiers; there would always be more available.
The first major engagement in Ia Drang may have proved ultimately to be an American victory, but it presented the fact that fighting the VC would not be won through area wars, but purely a through test of which side could drain enemy troop numbers fastest in an attritional war. The VC was able to conscript up to 200,000 men a year, outnumbering the US. These were not just typical soldiers, they were fighting a war for freedom which had been going on for centuries, and this contributed to their overall passion and perseverance in the face of a much more advanced enemy. In comparison the standard American troop was conscripted via a date of birth drafting system, and kept in Vietnam for a year. Many troops were not committed to their duty in Vietnam and did not always see why they were actually putting their lives on the line.
In retrospect, there are multiple reasons for the South’s loss or for the North’s victory. One of the reasons the North’s victory was their superiority in manpower. Lincoln had at his disposal a population of 22,000,000, compared with a Southern population of 9,000,000, which included 3,500,000 slaves whom they dared not arm. The key difference was, as casualties grew for the Union Army, they reluctantly turned to African Americans. This provided a far larger base from which to draw troops, even though it has been suggested that Southerners were keener to join up than their Union counterparts.
Some historians can argue that Napoleon gained his success from the slow progression of other nation’s armies through the modernization of warfare. Author and historian Robert Epstein writes that the dynamics of war changed between France and Austria when the Austrians adopted Napoleon’s corps system. However, the fact of the matter was that before 1807, Napoleon was better at overcoming his enemy: he could make quick decisions that proved crucial to his victories. He first demonstrated this during a revolution in 1793 in Toulon. This city in southern France rebelled by opening ports to Britain, and Napoleon quickly developed a plan to rid France of the English ships and their soldiers.
Although abolition was to be one of the major results of the Civil War, the war was fought for nationalistic reasons, not to destroy slavery. The Confederacy found a great commander while many of the northern generals in the early stages of the war proved indecisive. Gradually Lincoln’s stock rose and the Confederacy faced greater problems than the North. The Confederacy had to create an entire administration under pressure and it contained no broad authorization for laws designed to advance general welfare. B. Fort Sumter (1861)- the Confederates had seized most federal property in the south except for two strongholds Fort Sumter and Fort Pickens.
In these elections. The Republican Party led by Lincoln won, beating three other candidates. The southerners did not vote for him so his victory was seen as a northern affair. His speech, given in 1858, stated that, a divided house cannot stand and visualized that America can not endure a “half-slave and half-free.” This clearly showed that he was a moderate and was therefore not up to task, in the views of the southerners, to be able to tackle the abolitionist they perceived as a threat. He countered this by stating he will uphold the doctrine of states right.
Trotsky acted as an important figure throughout the civil war, he was a remarkable leader who helped and leaded the communists to win the war. Trotsky introduced war communism at the right time to insure the winning of the Bolsheviks. Furthermore the Cheka was a terror united all the Bolsheviks and made them keen to win the war. The Civil War was fought between the Reds and the Whites with many different factions, groups and nations involved. One of the reasons the reds won is because their army was so much stronger than the whites.