Questions tagged [civil-war]
Internal strife or conflict within a single country, typically of a military nature, other than in the United States, which is tagged with American-Civil-War.
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Are there cases where a civil war divided a country unevenly but stably, like China and Taiwan?
The Chinese Civil War split the Republic of China into the victorious People's Republic of China and the defeated Republic of China (Taiwan).
This split appears to have been extremely one-sided, with ...
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What made Seleucid monarchy so unstable?
I would not claim that the Seleucid monarchy was more unstable than other Hellenistic monarchies (though contemporary Antigonid Macedonia appears to be more politically robust) but throughout the 3rd ...
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What were The Troubles in Northern Ireland really about? [closed]
I was listening to some propaganda songs of IRA (Kinky boots, Come on out ye black and tans, Go on home British soldiers).
The songs are in English (not Irish) and as British in spirit as it gets: ...
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Why were children photographed In Crete, Greece around mid-late 1940's photos with the stamp on the back “A M Crown Copyright Reserved”?
I have a few old photos from about the mid to late 1940's in Crete, Greece (the civil war occurred during the time). There is a specific stamp on the back of two photos which is marked A M Crown ...
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Did military politically participate and intervene in the Second Spanish Republic? [closed]
I'm currently studying Spanish Civil War. It seems that it was a tradition, that the military had power to intervene politics in Spain, at least before the establishment of Second Spanish Republic.
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Why did Eisenhower iconize Robert E. Lee?
I recently discovered this clip of General Eisenhower: Eisenhower Explains About General Lee (1957)
In it he claims "The 4 top Americans of history: Franklin, Washington, Lincoln and Lee"
I ...
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Did Russia support both Georgian nationalists and the Georgian government during Georgian civil war?
I am trying to understand the history of Georgia after the independence from Russia reading the French Wikipedia article about it. Yet I don't understand the position of Russia during the Civil War.
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What proportion of revolutions that overthrew tyrannical regimes made things as bad or worse? [closed]
I realize that a phrase like "as bad or worse" is subjective. By what metric do we decide if a new regime is "better" or "worse" than an old one?
However, I want to know if this is a known area of ...
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Did freed slaves keep a portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the wall?
I read somewhere that post-civil war, many freed slaves kept a portrait/drawing of Abraham Lincoln in their house, and that this "tradition" went on for some time. Is this true, and can anyone share a ...
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How were Chinese Communist POWs treated after the civil war?
I was watching the film ‘The Assembly’ and the opening scene involved a battle where Chinese Nationalist troops had surrounded a group of Chinese Communists and were about to overrun them. Before the ...
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What role has a generally armed populace had on resisting a **potentially repressive government?**
I've been seeing a meme to the effect, "If the Jews had guns they wouldn't have all gone to the death camps" This has usually been cited by a 2nd amendment advocate
One of the answers has a line, "......
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Who really fired on Ft. Sumter - the South or Local Charleston, SC militia? [closed]
Why was Lincoln so quick to blockade all Southern ports after the local Charleston militia fired on Fort Sumter. It wasn't the South that fired on the fort just a bunch of angry local guys who drank ...
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Why did American Abolitionists believe slavery to be immoral? [closed]
Someone already asked when and how people began to consider slavery immoral on stack exchange, but no one has asked why. Why did American abolitionists believe slavery was immoral before 1860? I know ...
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How many troops would the White Armies have had at their peak during the Russian Civil War?
A couple of sketchy sources say between 2.3 and 2.4 million, but the books I've looked through are silent on the matter. Nevertheless, the maximum strength of the Red Army at around 5 million during ...
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Was the factional civil war that broke out in Angola after its independence in 1975 based on tribal rivalry?
Was the factional civil war that broke out in Angola after its independence from Portugal in 1975 primarily based on tribal rivalries. (with an ideological cover)?
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In the governments of the Reconstruction South, were Blacks in government always under the control of Whites?
I believe that in most cases they were figureheads but were there any examples of an African-American leader who actually was at least partially effective in state government?
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Examples of oppressive regimes which "loosened up" after winning destructive civil war
I'm trying to find a historical example for the following scenario:
Country is under the rule of a state with an oppressive regime.
The regime is (arguably) highly unpopular/hated among a large part ...
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Why did the Chinese Nationalist party members go to the island of Taiwan and not to any other island?
The nationalists could have escaped to the present day Phillippines which is further from the Chinese and would keep them more safe or to any other island but why only Taiwan and also why didn't the ...
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Why did the Soviets refuse to help Nur Mohammed Taraki?
In 1970s Afghanistan was a communist state. The leader Nur Mohammed Taraki was much like a puppet of the Soviets. When the policies (education, land distribution etc.) initiated by the Soviets proved ...
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How popular, or not, was the Mexican Goverment in the Cristero War (1927 - 1929)?
The Cristero War was fought in 1927 - 1929 between the Mexican Government and the rebels. The government wanted to abolish the influence of the Roman Catholic Church, while the rebels wanted to ...
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What motivated the Eritrean separatist movement?
The Eritrean War for Independence was a bloody 30-year war fought between Eritrean separatists and Ethiopia (under various administrations) from 1961 to 1991. I understand that the conflict was ...
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The 2011 Libya action by France, UK, US was supported by a UN resolution - but was it subverted for regime change? [closed]
The 2011 Libya action by France, UK, US was supported by a UN resolution authorising enforcement of a no-fly zone - but is there any evidence that the resolution was used as a pretext for the larger ...
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What reasons did the Confederacy have for believing they would have a quick victory?
At the beginning of the U.S. Civil War, both sides were very confident in a quick and easy victory. I can see why the North would think so: they had a better trained army, better infrastructure (...
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Why did Syria intervene in favour of the Maronites during the Lebanese Civil War?
From pg. 382, A History of the Modern Middle East by Martin Bunton and William Cleveland
"The [Lebanese Civil War] was expanded and then brought temporarily to an end by Syrian intervention. In ...
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What factors prevented the legality of secession being pursued via the courts prior to the outbreak of the Civil War?
I've seen references to Lincoln's political maneuvering to prevent the question of secession from being brought to the supreme court in the days preceding the conflict, presumably for fear a ruling ...
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Are any civil wars -- other than the American Civil War -- commonly reenacted?
...and if not, what is it that makes people comfortable reenacting the American Civil War? It would seem grotesque to reenact the Rwandan Civil War or Yugoslavian Civil War, for example.
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Who is ISIS/ISIL, Really? [closed]
For the past 6 months or so (probably longer), I've heard a lot about ISIS, and I know that they are involved in military actions in Syria, but I am still confused as to what their true purpose is. If ...
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Can anyone identify this Union commander?
At the beginning of the first episode of the PBS documentary series about the US Civil War the narrator describes some of the main characters without giving their names. One was 'a professor from ...
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Was the American Civil War the “bloodiest civil war in history”?
I heard something like that once on some TV documentary, but I'm second guessing that there must have been a caveat for just the Americas, or otherwise qualified it as, "in modern history", or as a ...
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In Civil War Reenactments why do people walk across the battlefield
Mostly all Civil War movies/reenactments you come across a scene that goes as follows...
Union/Confederacy are advancing in an open field towards the enemy but are walking as cannonballs and what not ...
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What became of the plan to partition Angola?
At the height of the war between UNITA rebels and the MPLA government of Angola there was - I recall - for a time a plan to fully partition Angola and create two countries. UNITA would have the ...
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What were the long-term effects of Reconstruction in the South?
After the American Civil War, the South was in ruins and there was doubt about how the Southern states would treat newly freed slaves. So the US government instituted a 15-year policy known as ...
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Is the Sri Lankan Civil War really over?
I was wondering whether the Sri Lankan Civil War, which officially ended, would technically considered to be still ongoing, since there are still clashes going on to this day. Would this classify as a ...
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How did the Tutsis win the civil war in Rwanda after 70% of them had been killed?
I read an assertion that as high as over 70% of Rwanda's Tutsis were killed in the Rwanda genocide. Yet immediately after the genocide the anti-government Tutsi rebel group NPF successfully defeated ...
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What is a common reason that Empires fall or collapse and can they be corrected? [duplicate]
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Are there any similarities in what happens when Empires collapse?
The question I have is 2 fold what causes most Empires or Nations to fall other than over powered by a ...
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How did the US/South Vietnam lose the Vietnam war?
South Vietnam was helped by US. Even when the US was gone, they had a 1 million army.
So why did they lose?
Even without US support, South Vietnam had about the same manpower, higher technology, and ...
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How well can cavalry fight infantry?
In the Battle of Pharsalus, Caesar's infantry won by throwing their spears at the horsemen's faces.
So how come in Battle of Zama and many other battles, including the battle where Khalid ibn al-...
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Do most of today's democratic nations with two-party system exhibit a civil war in recent past?
I was thinking about the two-party system in USA and comparing it to mostly multi-party systems in Europe and was wondering, if this national state of democracy is mainly caused by political decisions ...
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Why were there civil wars in Croatia and Bosnia, but not in Slovenia or Macedonia?
It seems that during the breakup of Yugoslavia there were civil wars during speakers of the (then officially) same language - Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks, but not, e.g., between Serbs and Slovenians. ...
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What particular watershed events led to the War of the Roses?
What were the key events that led to the War of the Roses occurring in England during the 15th century? Was there any particular event that was the tipping point?
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