How far was the outbreak of civil war in 1455 a direct result of Henry’s inadequacies as king? In order to assess the cause of civil war, we must understand it’s meaning. Civil war is defined as a war between factions or regions of the same country. In this particular by w05anettletoncase, it was a battle between the ‘Yorkists’, who were Loyal to Richard Duke of York, and the ‘Lancastrians’, who were Loyal to the King. There were many factors that aided the outbreak in 1455, however I believe that these factors were all results of Henry’s inadequacies as king, or could have been prevented if Henry was a more suitable ruler.
However, the populist movement developed from here, eventually splitting into two groups; the Black Partition and the People’s Will. The latter was arguably an effective form of opposition as it was responsible for the assassination of Alexander II on the 1st March 1881. Following on from this there was no alternative to the regime on offer as the group lacked any real ideology or popular support and thus the opposition was not truly effective. What followed was the rule
From 1485 to 1495 Henry attainted eight people who had committed crimes against the Crown. Thomas Howard was an example of this who lost the title of Duke of Norfolk and his family land after Bosworth. However the Acts of Attainder were reserved at times, he was reinstated as Earl of Surrey in 1489 to help calm an uprising in Northumberland. This gave Henry good control and power over any powerful nobles, being able to suppress them or use them to his advantage. Lastly his Kingship was strengthened through threats of magnates.
Stalin greatly feared older members of the party too as they knew the truth of Stalin’s rise to power and what Lenin’s testament contained which would have ruined Stalin’s career. Under Yagoda’s influence of suggesting communists questioned Stalin, his paranoia further developed and caused the emergence of the great terror. Undoubtedly Stalin felt he had to perform the mass purges because of his paranoia that he would be removed from power. As Stalin was in control this must be the main cause of the great terror as his desire to remain in power was the drive for allowing the great terror to happen. The Congress of victors was a short term cause of the great terror and only added to the main cause of Stalin’s paranoia.
Rasputin had a bad reputation for living a rather unorthodox lifestyle and was well known for his sexual promiscuity. As a result of this, loyalists who believed Rasputin was a danger to the regime killed him. However, this left Tsarina to be the primary blame for political unrest and dire decisions made by the government. By ridding the Tsarina of Rasputin and by Tsar Nicholas II taking control of the army, there was no one else to blame for
There was massive instability in the Empire when the Octavian forces defeated Mark Antony. However wars seemed to be happened all over the continent at this time. As instability occurred there was a fight for power. The Republic would eventually collapse and enter a coalition government run by Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey. They would lead until Caesar had enough military experience out of France to come in and defeat both their armies to become dictator.
If they rebelled they would be accused of high treason and they would have a social stigma. Henry didn’t want the barons either to seize his power so as soon as he came on to the throne he demolished the castles and made the law that barons were banned to keep a private army. Henry used his tax collectors and law courts to subjugate and suppress the nobility. Those nobles who didn’t follow this law were put on trial in the Court of Star Chamber. These two factors are linked because he needed to destroy the nobles’ power to increase his own power.
That wasn't right and had to change, yes. But a constitutional monarchy would have been the best option. That way, the King would only have been king in name but keep his stature, and the country would have been reigned by cabinets formed of the bourgeoisie, nobility and clergy. Unfortunately, the French chose the most violent way imaginable, and murdered everybody that stood in the way (or even dared to think differently) of the revolution. Absolutist power is always dangerous in the hands of a monarch as well as in the hands of a movement (in this situation, the National Assembly).
The slogans of ‘liberte, eqalite et fraternite’ were replaced with ‘la gloire.’ In the end Napoleon provoked the rest of Europe, exhausted his resources on a continuous treadmill of war and increasingly resorted to full frontal assaults with inferior recruits which ultimately failed at Waterloo. Even though he was the head of state as well as the commander in chief he didn’t know when or how to stop. There was no exit strategy as his ‘war nourished war’. Perhaps ‘La gloire’ had taken over or maybe Berthier's death undermined the Imperial Headquarters.. However, the ‘God of War’ had done enough to inspire
This was an uprising by a group of communists led by Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht. They tried to start a communist revolution in Germany but it was crushed by the Freikorps, a group of ex-German soldiers hired by the government to put an end to the uprising. This was a problem for the government because it showed that it was under threat and it also made the government look weak because they could not stop the uprising themselves and had to hire the Freikorps to do it for them. This also lead to them becoming more unpopular. Later in 1919 the Weimar government signed the treaty of Versailles.