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Thanks scout and Phid,It's been a joy reading all your posts! Both of you are inspirations to me as a historian and future professor!
Welcome! This site has been very valuable to me while my studies are on hold.
Getting back to this, someone compared the treatment of the Native Americans to the way the Nazis acted and to their genocide. In your opinion, does this have any basis?
If you throw out the technology and scope differences, maybe. But historians should not be making these kinds of value judgments. Sociologists and political scientists are better equipped to analyze this than historians.
Fiat currencies mean inflation and inflation means working more and more hours to make the same amount of “money” to cover expenses. The invention of “credit” allowed for people to buy goods that formerly were out of reach, which increased demand, which drove up prices, which in turn raised debt burdens eventually creating a debtor slave class. 🙂
Well, I just turned in my bound copies of my thesis to the graduate office. It cost me $217 to get my required four copies assembled, and I didn't even get a copy for myself. So anyway, my Masters is now done with. 🙂
Bravo!
Go check out The Sacred Cause of Liberty by Nathan O. Hatch and the First Great Awakening by Gaustad. From there get Patricia Bonomi's Under The Cope Of Heaven (I think that's the title). You'll be on your way.
Potsdam was definitely a factor and I should have mentioned it (though I associate it with World War II more than Cold War). There were other events such as the installation of Mossadeq to power in Iran that bothered the Russians too. We provoked the Russians as much as they did us. What was at stake was the realignment of nations out of the chaos that was World War II. The Cold War was a grand chess match played around the globe which was the best option (the other being open confrontation).
I hate this topic with a passion. Yes one can argue that the Europeans committed atrocities. The Native Americans usually responded with atrocities of their own. Technology and biology is what did the Native Americans in. Small pox and the inability (read unwillingness) to adapt to European technology spelled their doom. Furthermore, the Native Americans quarreled among themselves violently as well — had they been more united in the beginning, they might have stood a chance. Sadly (or fortunately if you root for the Europeans) they could not.
Mao and Stalin parted ways pretty soon after the war because of their differing views of implementing communism. The Cold War begins with the Berlin blockade and subsequent airlift. Any essay on the origins of the Cold War must center on this event prominently before delving into other issues. Berlin was the test of wills between the US and Russia. As for China (not technically part of the Cold War with Russia, but a separate Cold War), our support of Chiang Kai Shek and the Chinese Nationalists during the Truman administration became the source of Mao's distrust of us. Then obviously Korea took it to another level. If you want need any more help on this paper such as proofreading, you can join Writers of History and we'll give you a proofreading session.
Sherman for sure would get the nod for the North, with Benjamin Butler a VERY close second.The South is a bit harder to pinpoint... Forrest maybe... possibly even Jefferson Davis...
Butler was vilified more for his administrative tyranny than his military acumen. In fact Butler was very incompetent on the battlefield, but he was very shrewd in political maneuvering. The North feared Lee, Jackson, Longstreet, and Forrest but Forrest is probably the only one truly hated by the North. Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, and maybe even Thomas were feared because they not only were competent warriors, they showed no fear. Sherman gets the nod for most hated with Sheridan a close second. I'm tempted to include Hancock and the Iron Brigade in this too. Okay I just did LOL.
After reading an article about the Gatling gun, I tend to agree that the first modern war is the American Civil Warhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatling_gun "an early rapid-fire weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun"
And you would be correct. 🙂
