War Dbq

In the 15th century, Spain and Portugal had started the search to make an empire. It was not until 1607 that European colonizers landed in the New World, or what is known today as the United States of America. By 1733, all of the 13 colonies of America were established. Britain gained control of most of these colonies after it defeated the French in the Seven Years’ War. This was a North American conflict that was also a part of a larger land conflict between super powers in Europe like Britain and France.

DBQ: Analyze connections between regional issues and European struggles for global power in the mid-eighteenth century. Identify an additional type of document and explain how it would help your analysis of these connections.

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."

Since the 1870s, most of the major countries in Europe had been preparing for war with each other. The independent German kingdoms were unified in the 1870s and had quickly become the largest power on the continent. This triggered the the Holy Alliance between Prussia, Russia, and Austria. When Germany was united in 1871, Prussia became part of the new German nation. Russia also feared Germans threat and sought to ally itself with Great Britain, France, and even Germany itself for protection against other nations.

War has been going on just about as long as people have been alive. Whether it is just some cavemen fighting over a fire, or multiple countries going to war for justice, there has always been some scale of war. I am going to be analyzing way through functionalist, conflict, and symbolic interactionist perspectives.

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.

Dictionary.com defines total war as “a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded.” After reading this definition one might think that World War II may not have exactly been an example of total war because only one side truly disregarded the “laws of war”. That being the Axis powers. Typically, one would perceive this notion because it certainly was not the United States or Britain who participated in the genocide of an entire ethnic group during the War. While this view is very much true, it is also my opinion that it is inaccurate to believe that all parties in the war did not commit some level of atrocity

The ending of World War I and Beginning of World War II, was another frustrating time for civil rights parties, fighting for the rights of colored people. A. Phillip Randolph was a huge contributor towards civil rights movements at this time, working hard with other passionate people and groups, to fight against white supremeness, help move the United States into an equal playing field for all. Randolph tackled the issue of not only the lack of blacks in the armed forces at the time, but the lack of respect, and basic human rights towards African Americans in the armed forces. The New Deal which was supposed to help pull Americans out of the great depression, was another issue that civil rights groups had to fight for. Both black and white

War is presented as incredibly bloody and violent and to be the will of the G-ds by some and for others revenge and greed is their motivation to wage war. Some humans are naturally violently inclined while others are pushed or taught to be ruthless killers. Propaganda has been around for thousands of years, before there were posters, videos or movies depicting propaganda there were the official accounts or records of the rulers and generals that made outlandish statements about their conquests to make the people love and fear them. In document 2-6, ‘An Assyrian Emperor’s Resume’ Ashur-Nasir Pal II greatly over exaggerated the number of deaths and their violence, the spoil of riches stolen and how weak and easy his enemy was to destroy.

In the economic aspect, the war ended the Great Depression. (Winkler,1986) In 1940, money was being spent to aid the war effort and in return boosted the American economy. (Winkler,1986) The production of war necessities such as weapons opened up door for the unemployed. (Winkler,1986) Millions of unemployed Americans returned to work to make the weapons of war needed to protect the United States. (Winkler,1986) “During the war 17 million new civilian jobs were created, industrial productivity increased by 96 percent, and corporate profits after taxes doubled.” (Goodwin,1992) War needs directly consumed over one-third of the output of industry causing a slight decrease in consumer goods production. (Goodwin,1992) U.S economy converted to wartime production therefore most consumer goods were

War can be defined as “an active struggle between competing entities. It’s truly hard to tell who is right or wrong during a war. Both sides are fighting for what they believe in and what is true to their heart. In the end there is always two things promised – destruction and death. These two objects can explain the result in every facet of war from the physical to emotional.

     When Hazlitt wrote about how war affects economics, he wrote about this subject brilliantly. The best example Hazlitt used had to do with the broken window. He said that if a window breaks for a certain business, it is better for the economy. If a window is broken for a certain business and takes a few thousand dollars to fix, it would be a small price to pay to increase the economy. The economy would give jobs and pay wages to the repair the window. Hazlitt’s point is that sometimes there is a blessing that comes out of destruction. For example, the Civil War had a positive affect on economics. During and after the war, there was tremendous growth in industry, railroads, and others. But this came at the price of destroying land and life as well. “The war, in short, changed the postwar direction of effort; it changed the balance of industries; it changed the structure of industry” (Hazlitt p27). The reason for this growth is because it takes a lot of energy and a lot of stimulation to get the economy back where it was before the war, because the money that the government used to supply the war came from certain industries. A commodity had to be subtracted in order to supply the needs for the war. After the war, it is a great chance that

‘War’ as defined by Webster’s Dictionary is a state of open and declared, hostile armed conflict between states or nations. Voltaire—the human personification of the Enlightenment period—says the following: “Famine, plague, and war are the three most famous ingredients of this wretched world…All animals are perpetually at war with each other…Air, earth and water are arenas of destruction. Defining war has been a political issue for centuries, and it poses a philosophical problem. Most philosophers will agree on war being a clash of arms, or a state of mutual tension between nations or states, distinguishing it from open rebellions, riots, and personal violence.

this day as marking the close of the struggle for German equality status and with that re-won equality the

War is controversial, unfortunate, and certainly misunderstood; it is a transforming agent, a catalyst for change. Nonetheless, many people focus on war's negative consequences, while positive effects are downplayed. War is a necessary evil in the sense that it stabilizes population, encourages technological advances, and has a very high economic value. Without war, the overpopulation of the human race is inevitable. It is this reason that war is a useful tool by not only Mother Nature, but also humans themselves to institute population control.