The Mexican Revolution was a vicil war that included several factors, including socialist, liberal, anarchist, populist, and...
What treaty ended the Mexican War of Independence? What issues led to the revolts in South America? What is the history of the Mexican flag? What was the Cuban government like before the revolution? What events led to the Texas Revolution? What was the cause of the Reform War in Mexico?
Leading up to the Civil War, America fought a war with Mexico to annex Texas and California. That added more than $63 million to the national debt (a little more than $2 billion in 2019 money). But the bigger picture is, America has never really stopped paying for the Civil War. Whet...
What law was established in the Treaty of New Echota? What provisions of the Constitution did Jonathan Dayton object to? What treaty gave Texas its independence from Mexico? What is the Treaty of Madrid? What were federalists views on Pinckney's Treaty? What was the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of ...
The CIA did not tell the Warren Commission that they had been surveilling Oswald in Mexico City and they also omitted that they had engaged in numerous operations to try to assassinate Fidel Castro. Indeed, these multiple attempts on Castro’s life was why President Johnson suspected that Cuba ...
Three centuries later, in 1821, the war for Independence (starting in 1810) ended, freeing Mexico from New Spain. This was a war that, however, benefited mainlythe criollo (Spanish-blooded upper class) minority. Why does Adelita hang her mother's Rebozo or shawl out the window?
Mexico City − has its own rapidly expanding version of slum that differs according to its context, geography, climate and politics. Mumbai’s Dharavi, at 500 acres with a population of around one million people, is the city’s large...
The Franco-Prussian War: The Franco-Prussian War was fought between France and Prussia in 1870-1871. Many historians believe Prussia more or less provoked the war with France in order to foster German national unity. The Franco-Prussian War led directly to German unification, or the formation ...
- Inflation-adjusted price: $2.85 (#23 most expensive year in 84-year span) The United States was now a player in World War II, which meant the introduction of gas rationing. Gas rationing had little to do with a shortage; what the United States armed forces needed was rubber, so non...
It’s July 1914, just before the beginning of the First World War: The czar stands on a balcony of the Winter Palace, reviewing his army. The whole vast expanse of Palace Square is packed with people. He swears on the Bible and the holy icons that he will not sign for peace so long...