Who were the major players in the Spanish Civil War and how did they affect its course and outcome? For the first time in Spain’s history, 1931 marked the year that changed the country into an orderly democratic republic. The exile of King Alfonso XIII in 1931 because of the loss in support from the Spanish people only highlighted that the monarchy was doomed. Therefore, the Second Spanish Republic ruled from 1931 until 1937 and was under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera whose main aims was to modernize Spain through liberal, democratic means. Although, the development of change already faced opposition from right-winged supporters, including rich landowners who feared social changes that the Republic would try to implement.
However, the argument that carries the greatest weight is that the individuals who led these revolts and were at the forefront of the revolutionary movements were not united themselves in how they wanted Italy to unite. Austria clearly had a central role in putting down many of the revolts and so played an important role in both the failure of the 1820-21 revolutions and the ones that took place between 1848-49. Prior to 1820, Italy was unsettled and highly divided with nationalists, liberals and extremists amongst the masses. As the hostility in Italy increased under Austrian rule, secret societies emerged such as ‘The Carbonari’ – which was particularly popular in Southern Italy. By 1815, the aims of these secret societies changed in the direction of driving out the Austrians and restoring old Monarchs.
Influenced by the Russian Revolution of 1917, a series of strikes and revolts had broken out making Italy nothing but a ground for organised crime. The elected liberal government could not do anything but stand and watch as riot let loose leaving Benito Mussolini to take matters into his own hands in order to combat unrest, manipulating Italy’s Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti in the making, this being the beginning of Mussolini’s rise to power. One of Mussolini’s first moves, inspired by the red shirts, was to gather nationalist intellectuals, young land owners whom opposed peasants and former army officers to form a group known as the Paramilitary Blackshirts – Mussolini’s military tool in his political movement. This was the beginning of the growth of Fascism in Italy. The paramilitary Blackshirts were used by Mussolini to torture those who opposed the fascist movement, as Mussolini’s power grew, the Paramilitary Blackshirts methods became harsher and Fascism grew.
Outnumbered and poor, the revolutionaries tried to disrupt the Cuban economy by burning sugarcane plantations. The Spanish retaliated harshly, executing suspected rebels and herding peasants into camps where thousands succumbed to disease and starvation. These brutal measures provided stirring copy for American journalists, who invariably sympathized with the Cuban underdogs. Still, the public might have paid little attention to the conflict had it not coincided with a newspaper circulation war in New York. At the end of the nineteenth century, more than half a dozen newspapers competed in the influential New York market.
ECONOMIC POLICIES IN THE BOOK “THE FORGOTTEN MAN” The Economic Policies in the book “The Forgotten Man” Name school Professor course Next to the politically-motivated Civil War, a historical account which has changed the landscape of another significant system in the United States is the Great Depression. In particular, the American economic structure was negatively transformed as manifested by the collapse of the stock market when the country became part of World War II in the early 1900s. Additionally, the nation was faced with a disastrous economic struggle and the unemployment rate escalated. History and the Americans then attributed such harmful situation to the two leaders of the country. Initially, President Herbert Hoover was attacked for being ill-advised and his apparent unsuccessful governance.
In 1898 the United States went to war with Spain. But before that, the United States had become more aggressive, expansionistic, and jingoistic than it had been since the 1850’s. Within that time, the United States was on the brink of war Italy, Chile, and Great Britain over three minor incidents in which no American national interest of major importance was involved. William E. Leuchtenburg was known as William Rand Kenan in which he was a professor of history at the University of North Carolina. He explains in his essay that there was no shortage of “aggressive, expansionistic, and jingoistic” feeling in America during the early 1890s.
Therefore it is clear that a crucial factor in this battle was the intervention, or non-intervention, of foreign powers. This civil war turned into a total war for Spain who invested huge amounts of money, soldiers, arms and efforts as well as an international conflict that mirrored the political disputes occurring in Europe at the same time between Fascism and democracy on one hand and the opposition to godless Communism on the other. As soon as the civil war broke, a Non-intervention agreement was drafted in September of 1936, which was a joint diplomatic initiative by the governments of France and the United Kingdom to stop any foreign involvement in this domestic affair, involvement which could eventually have lead to the outbreak of a wider European war 2. At this point, foreign intervention would both lengthen and intensify the war. A Non-intervention Committee was then created to maintain this agreement and to not let Spanish issues be ignored and “submerged by bigger ideological battles taking place in Europe at the same time”3.
The Great War Scott Rothstein DeVry University The Great War The early 1900’s brought us the first conflict that affected the entire world. While some countries chose to remain neutral during the initial phases of the war eventually circumstances would also force these countries to make the unpopular decision to fight as well. While the igniter for the war may have been the assassination of Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian terrorist group called the Black Hand the stage had been set over the previous several years. The effects of Nationalism, Imperialism and Militarism were bringing the entire continent closer to war. Ultimately because of Imperialism several of the powers formed alliances with some of the smaller less powerful countries.
National business interests also enticed the U.S. to declare war upon Spain. Revolutionary chaos within Cuba were detrimental to U.S. investments and trade, which in 1897 alone amounted to 27 million dollars. The rebel’s destruction of sugar plantations hurt not only Spanish, but American investors. Also, Cuba had been viewed for decades by many Americans as an opportunity for further Southern expansion. The control of an island so close to the Florida coast by Spain, equipped with a powerful navy, was a threat to the United
How important was Hitler compared to the depression in the Nazis coming to power in 1933? The story of why Hitler came to power is about the reasons why the German people lost their senses and allowed a vicious madman to come to power. Hitler’s rise to power was based upon long term factors, resentment in the German people, and the weakness of the Weimar system- which he exploited through propaganda, the terror of his storm troopers and the brilliance of his speeches. In this essay I’m going to be looking at and answering the question of ‘how important was Hitler compared to the depression in the Nazis coming to power in 1933?’ Hitler's rise to power cannot be attributed to one event, but a mixture of factors including events happening