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. Under Generals Sanjurjo, Franco and Mola, the Spanish Civil War began as a military coup, which was aimed to put an end to the democratic political change that was seen in 1931. As seen in Italy with Mussolini in 1922 and with Hitler in Germany in 1933, one could argue that the rise of fascism subsequently kick started the demand of a takeover in Spain. But, we have to bear in mind the bad timing of 1931 to implement such a change, with the worldwide economic crisis caused by the 1929 Wall Street Crash in America, and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, there was now fear throughout Europe of communism and revolution. Although at the beginning of the rebellion, the three main generals were not actually all in Spain.
The ramifications of Rome’s expansions and rise to power were the inevitable fall of the republic and rise of the empire. Although other factors contributed to the fall of the republic, such as the reign of Julius Caesar, most of the reasons for this monumental switch are rooted in the Punic Wars. As the boundaries of Rome’s jurisdiction spread over the Mediterranean in the second and third century BCE, the senate proved to be inept at adjusting its method of governing. Richard Edwin Smith explains in The Failure of the Roman Republic that Rome, by means of the Punic Wars, became a powerful state in the Mediterranean world without fully realizing it. While Rome may have grown during this period, he says, “there was no change in her mental outlook to correspond to her changed position” (Smith, 50).
“The ideology of expansion was widespread in the upper circles of military men, politicians, businessmen—and even among some of the leaders of farmers’ movements who thought foreign markets would help them,” (Zinn 298). The rest of the chapter explains the war with Spain and the injustices done to various groups of diverse soldiers and laborers. It would seem this was a difficult time for America, though, as by the beginning of the twentieth century, people would begin to feel unpatriotic and underappreciated. My reaction to this chapter is that I honestly feel bad for whoever had to organize this country during this time. The country was splitting up, with some people thinking and believing this and other people disagreeing and believing that.
For example, a major issue during this period was the transformismo; a coalition created by Giovanni Giolitti that influenced Liberals, Nationalists, Catholics and Socialist who did not get along – making the issues that would later arise inevitable. This ‘transformismo’ was unstable from the beginning with Francesco Crispi (Giolitti predecessor) describing it as “Political incest” because it was so corrupt. However, the ‘transformismo main challenges did not start until September 1911 when Italy invaded Libya because Giolitti wanted to quickly defeat the Turkish Empire and increase Italy’s colonies. The Socialists had condemned the war (the Italian people did not know what they were fighting for) and the Socialist newspaper ‘Avanti!’ wanted to overthrow the state and advocated strikes. Many blamed Giolitti’s refusal to use force against the strikes and insisted that this weakness encouraged left wing extremism.
The nature of fascism itself was very aggressive and linked to the rise of dictatorships also increased the idea of revenge and violence. Germany and Italy also dealt with the economic crisis in 1929 in an aggressive way. And the fact that the League of Nations should ensure peace in the world and it was weak and failed facing Germany and Italy aggression let both countries became even more powerful and aggressive. One of the reasons for the German and Italian aggressive foreign policy was The Paris Peace Settlement, which was created to punish Germany. Nobody was happy with it and Italy and Germany wanted revenge.
Why did the US go to war with Spain in 1898? The US declared war on Spain for many reasons, many of which appeared to be selfless and helpful however the underlying reason was much more selfish and a way of getting revenge for an act that was blamed on Spain. Yet later found evidence proves that this in fact had nothing to do with Spain, and in fact was a probably a technical fault. Cuba had been a Spanish colony since Columbus’ discovery of the island in 1492, and had been in rebellion for its independence since 1895. The US therefore appeared to help Cuba by declaring war on Spain in order to achieve Cuba’s independence.
Clearly this was quite a vigorous act, Cicero undertook this in full knowledge it could perhaps lead to his death as Caesar’s army, though lacking numbers, was full of war veterans. However one could call this acting against the republic, as Cicero spent more time with Pompey and his legions it was clear that the upkeep of the republic was not the motive of war but defeating Caesar was. He quarrelled with several of the more prominent Pompeian commanders over their eagerness to shed Roman blood. In Cicero’s opinion, the Pompeians had lost all sense of perspective in their lust to destroy
Aaron wanted to lie to both Britain and Spain, telling them he was trying to tear the United States in half, east from west. (Aaron Burr Trial). This was extremely underhanded of Burr. It is one thing to go behind the back of your own country, but another to go behind the back of another country at the expense of your own country. However, instead of breaking up the country he simply intended to use the money and troops from Spain and Britain to invade Mexico.
These edicts eventually led to the United States declaring war on British. Napoleon also had problems with other nations. Portugal and Spain did not comply with the continental system. So Napoleon invaded them, but he lost the war because of Britain’s help. After he lost
The U.S.A. views this war as a war against communistic aggression, but in reality they viewed it as a civil war struggle. News coverage was biased against the American aggression, which did more to defeat their army than the enemy soldiers. Both sides were glad to have this conflict over and done with, but for different reasons. Vietnam was not a glorious conquest, that the American public was use to obtaining and demanded. It was an early wake-up call for Americans to resolve issues on their home front prior to taking on another country's problems,