Archive for December 2008

Long March 1934-1935

Causes

German military
advise encirclement and starve policy - deny resources
Use pill-boxes
Manned road blocks

Supposedly to resist
Japanese

Nature

Encompassed

6,000 Miles
(Equivalent to marching from London to Lagos)
15 Battles
24 Rivers

Effects

Brotherhood,
Suffering, Selflessness, Determination inculcated into Communist Party
members.
Mao rises

Exposes urban
communists as abandoning successful guerrilla tactics.
Position weak
before
Voted in as
chairman Politburo session

Zhang Guoato
chooses westward route [...]

Warren G Hardings Mysterious Death

Warren G. Harding was born on November 2, 1865, on a farm near Blooming grove,
Ohio. Harding wasn’t always into politics. He started in teaching and selling insurance before
becoming a lawyer. In 1884 Harding borrowed three hundred dollars to buy a struggling
newspaper, the Marion Ohio Star. (Anthony, Carl. American Heritage pg. 2) He was editor
and business [...]

US-Mexico Border

International borders have always been centers of conflict, and the U.S.-Mexican border is no exception. With the European colonizing the New World, it was a matter of time before the powers collided. The Spanish settled what is today Mexico, while the English settled what is to day the United States. When the two colonial powers [...]

Vietnam War

To many, the Vietnam War symbolizes controversy, myth and question in America.
There are many events that made Americans wonder what reasons we had for putting
our troops and families in Vietnam. Up till that point, many other Americans had
never questioned the acts of the American government and armed forces. Issues
dealt with in the Vietnam War showed [...]

The Start Of The Civil War

Adam Rodney——The coming of the Civil War was a lengthy and tumultuous road based on the economic and political sectionalism of the country’s two main regions, the North, usually referring to the states above the Mason-Dixon line (36′30), and the South (the slaveholding states below the Mason-Dixon line and Maryland). The North, which was chiefly [...]