Dbq War Analysis

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on December 1979, the goal was to help Afghan communist forces set up a communist government. The Soviet Union felt Afghanistan had key resources and a foothold in the Middle East to spread communist ideas. The result would be a war that the Soviet Union wishes it never got involved in and likened to their “Vietnam War”, meaning winning a number of battles but not the war like what happened to the U.S. in Vietnam. The background of the war, outcome of the war, and impact on the United States are key to understanding the Soviet-Afghan War.

Violence escalated when colonists believed that extermination was the only way, to expand their lands, and it was the easiest way to eliminate them for good. Wars against natives were justified because of fear from colonists, wanting to protect themselves; Edward, Waterhouse created A Declaration of the State of the Colony and Affaires in Virginia, Waterhouse believed natives wanted to exterminate them, therefore an attack would be relevant to stop them. Along with finding a justification as to why it was okay attack natives in a brutal way, new war fighting styles were introduced the colonial officials. Scalp bounties first appeared in the middle of 1670, and this method was used to promote and offer rewards for native scalps; these bounties were rewarded in either monetary value or items needed.

The post war world ll division impacted many countries all over the world. Everything started when all the parties came together and decided to combine forces and came to an agreement for one purpose. When they reached the purpose the congress party turned brattle field to one question what kind of society do we want to create? This one question created evolution, battle, and a lot of enemies. Often people had different visions, ideas and methods this influenced leaders for many decades and impacted politically and the economic development of these countries.

WWII brought on a lot of social changes for many types of people, especially minorities in America. Japanese citizens in America around the coastal areas or military bases were forced to sell their homes and shops, to go to live in internment camps. The U.S. government tried to sell the idea that it was to protect Japanese Americans and send the out of harm’s way, when in actuality it was more because of the fear Americans had in the Japanese, especially since they looked different. (Document 2) The discrimination within many people because Japanese Americans were so easily identifiable is why that group of people were specifically interned and why German or Italian Americans weren’t. The government tried to make it seem like Japanese Americans were happy to leave their homes to live in the government camps set up for them to live in during the war. Women also

World War I left a sour taste in the mouths of Americans; many felt that the United States had joined for the wrong reasons, and this disillusionment led to a return to isolationism. Americans looked to avoid entanglements in European affairs that could potentially pull them into another world war. Combined with the effects of the Great Depression and the economic troubles that spanned the globe, Americans were determined to avoid foreign affairs and remain neutral when conflict began. However, as dictatorships began to rise globally, the United States found it increasingly difficult to remain neutral and isolationist. Though the United States attempted to remain neutral in world affairs following World War I, the threat to democracy and rise

I believe the revolutionary war was revolutionary the colonists gained new ideas and became violent against the king when he started to take away their rights of englishmen and life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Document one shows that the americans were changing their state of mind by using a statue of the king to make bullets to shoot the british soldiers with. This shows that the colonists were gaining new ideas and were starting to become violent after the olive branch petition failed and were prepared to overthrow the king. Document two states that all men are created equal and given the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which are our inalienable rights. This supports the position that the revolutionary was

Thomas Jefferson was elected vice president in 1796, with John Adams winning the presidential vote by only three. Jefferson was passive in his vice presidency, while Adams was very involved in the undeclared war between America and France, known as the Quasi War. Adams raised taxes on the American people to pay for his naval endeavors in the Quasi War, one of which was paying pirates on the coast of Africa to not capture American ships. Thomas Jefferson did not agree with this. He wrote in a letter to John Adams that "I acknolege [sic] I very early thought it would be best to effect a peace thro' the medium of war."

Compromise: an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions. "An ability to listen to two sides in a dispute, and devise a compromise acceptable to both.” Sounds a lot better than a war where people were fighting brother to brother against each other, right? Well then what caused compromise to dismantle?

Did you know that both the Union and the confederacy had over 20,000 casualties in the battle of Gettysburg? The battle of Gettysburg took place in parts of Maryland and Pennsylvania in 1863. It was a three day battle in which Lee would attack Union forces. The Union ended up winning the battle and this was the last offensive attack for the Confederacy. The point is that the battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the civil war because many confederate soldiers died which did not help since they had a small army and many generals for the confederates were killed, wounded, or went missing.

During the Revolutionary War the idea of being American came about. The United States population was split with people both support and disapproving of the Revolution against the British. Whigs and Tories were two groups of people with views differing from one another. Whigs supported the revolution while the Tories supported the British. There were many disagreements and conflicts between the Whigs and Tories (Doc B).

The Americans became a friend of Pakistan because those days Russia was their main enemy. The crisis of war united some countries. In my opinion, the destinies of those mini-states were concerned with the war between two superpower. Poor and backward countries were all became victims of the conflict. Pakistan used war tactics to teach math at that time because they wanted their offspring to understand the cruelty of war and warned their future generations to become stronger. Because the change of position in the international energy supply chain, the civil strife in Iraq rise in oil prices allowed the United States gained a lot of advantages from it. The higher price made America more investment in oil development and corresponding employment,

This narrative is about the British forces attacking Washington D.C during the war of 1812 and how the Americans reacted towards the situations. The report starts off with the narrator arriving at Washington on a Sunday, the twenty-first of some month during 1814, and describes the mindset of the government officers and citizens as apprehensive or fearful. The fear came from the possible chance that the British may launch an attack. The British forces, ironically, landed on Patuxent with about 4,000 to 16,000 men according to reports the Americans had.

America and Pakistan have different goals in Afghanistan. While Washington wants to defeat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Pakistan wants them to stop violence in its territories and to capture power in Kabul. Islamabad sees the Afghan war as an opportunity to strengthen its military, with Western support, to fend off India and lean on New Delhi to resolve the Kashmir dispute. From Pakistan’s perspective, the Taliban jihadists -- trained in Pakistani madarsas and supported by the Inter-Service Intelligence, the military spy agency – will make the best allies in Kabul and help augment the anti-Indian jihad in Kashmir.

The Soviet-Afghan War spanned nine years from late 1979 to early 1989 encompassing the terms of two Soviet premiers and two United States presidents. Known also as the “Soviet Union’s Vietnam War” it too was a war of technology and power against a hardened and adaptive guerilla militia know as the Mujahedeen (people doing jihad) that lead to an undetermined victor and a withdrawal of Soviet forces.

This essay aims to explain the failure of Pakistan as an effective ally of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the fight against the Taliban/ Al Qaeda. This essay is broken into three parts in order to better understand the fight against the Taliban/ Al Qaeda. In the first part, we look at the formation of the Taliban/ Al Qaeda in the region followed by its relationship with Pakistan and finally the post 9/11 situations in the region. It also looks to study the Pakistan – United States and Pakistan – India relationship.