Strategic factors played a changing role in Britain’s relationship with its African empire throughout the expansion period 1870-1902, the consolidation period 1902-1955 and the de-colonisation period 1955-1981. In some of these periods Strategy was right at the foreground of Britain’s rule in Africa and other times it was pushed to the back by other major factors. These include economic considerations, International relations, changing attitudes and nationalism. Many historians such as Martin Pugh saw that ‘the most obvious motive for British expansion was strategic’. Britain’s strategic motives in Africa centred on thwarting the growth of rival European powers as well as securing its interests in Africa.
They were an established political organization call the Nation Liberation Front. Basically they were terrorists who were aided by North Vietnam to suppress the South Vietnamese government. The United States became the enemy of the Viet Cong because they were supporting the South Vietnamese independence. Also, like North Vietnamese, anyone who did not conform to their beliefs was considered an enemy and killed. Fearing communism the United States government committed their troops to defend South Vietnam.
A key example of this would be the “Kruger telegram”, in which the Kaiser sent a personal telegram to President Kruger of the South African Republic, congratulating him on defeating British raiders. Not only did this deteriorate the relationship between Britain and Germany, it also drove Britain further away from any sort of alliance between the two. This relationship was further antagonised by the Kaiser, due to his “ill considered-statements”, such as his interview with the daily telegraph in 1908. In this interview he described Britain as “Mad Bulls” and implied that he was the only one stopping war between Britain and Germany. Not only did this increase the tension and suspicion between the two countries, but it also caused problems at home, and contributed greatly to the undermining of Bulow’s chancellorship, forcing him to step down in the summer of 1909.
John majors government came into office after the downfall of Margret Thatcher, which ultimately created divisions within the party. Not only did the party suffer from the internal conflict but also faced the problems of the recession after the ‘Lawson boom’. In order to stabilise the economy he joined the ERM getting a good deal but ultimately resulting in ‘black Wednesday’ causing Major to raise interest rates to 15%. This was political suicide and he soon lost the support of the press we had once relied so much on to get re-elected in 1992. The housing market also plummeted leading to negative equity, which the majority of the working class could not afford resulting in the repossession of their houses combined with the drastic increase in unemployment Britain was in a mess.
Because of these economics times that the world is currently in, the company found its business in disarray subsequently an action plan was put in place for the company could be saved. More than 34,000 of jobs were lost in the US and Canada alike at that time. As of January 16th 2009 a week after the motions were initiated in court, Circuit City decided to close all 567 remaining stores in the United States. The lost of these jobs have not only affected the company but their employees have suffered irreversible damage in these economic times. The communities were these jobs were lost have been devastated.
After World War two, the world split into two distinct camps. Propaganda was use to justify or condemn about such as the United States and the Soviet Union became engaged in proxy wars against one another. As a result, propagandists ought to portray an enemy nation as harboring all the qualities that were adverse to their own conception of liberty and progress. The differences between American capitalist democracy and Soviet socialist totalitarianism came from their systems. The American government went out of its way to portray communists as scarier and more not the same as what Americans were.
Ultimately American fear allowed for the creation of McCarthyism, which was an intense effort to root out Communists from every corner of society by any means necessary. McCarthyism influenced hatred of communism and of the Soviet Union by proposing that communist spies had infiltrated the United States government. Fear of communism in America led to an extreme distrust of all Communist countries across the globe. In fact the fear and hatred of Communism McCarthy sent across the nation was so strong, it droves America into many proxy wars against the Soviet influence. Korea, China, and Vietnam all encountered conflict with Americans during the Cold War.
On Black Thursday, The Wall Street Crash of 1929, October 24 also known as the Great Crash was terrible, it was the worse stock market crash ever. The market crash was one of the major causes that led to the Great Depression. There was a huge crowd of people trying to withdrew there life saving but couldn't. They were left with loans and debt they couldn’t pay. Two Months after the crash , stockholders had lost more than $40 billion dollars.
Through this action president Hoover believed that the economy would end up fixing it self and that citizens will learn not to become dependant on the help of the government. Many believed that Hoover was in denial of the devastation that was affecting millions of citizens the great depression, and didn’t want to admit to the reality, that America found itself in a black whole. Citizens also started to believe that Hoover was some type of murderer because he knowingly was starving Americans, having the solution at hand. Americans were not only starving, but also dying of rare diseases and those that survived were starting to lose hope of a better tomorrow. Thankfully Citizens will finally have some light in this dark storm that was brought by the great depression when president Roosevelt and his administration came to office.
America viewed Communism as an evil belief to kill the rights and liberties of all mankind. Both sides believed that the other was seeking to dominate each other and the world. It was at this time that containment was made, and the United States began to add to the containment strategy. The U.S drafted its strategy for meeting the Soviet threat in 1947. George Kennan, an American serving