... had lost an enormous amount of lives, but had more than enough to lose in comparison to the South. General Grant became known as the "Butcher" (Grant, Ulysses S., Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, New York: Charles L. Webster & Co.,1894) and many wanted to see him removed. But Lincoln stood firm with his General, and the war continued. This paper will follow the happenings and events between the winter of 1864-65 and the surrender of The Confederate States of America. All of this will most certainly illustrate that April 9, 1865 was indeed the end of a tragedy. CUTTING OFF THE SOUTH In September of 1864, Ge ...

... recognized the right of princes to choose Lutheranism or Catholicism for their lands. 1648 The Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War. 1740 Frederick the Great became king of Prussia and began building Prussia into a great power. 1806 The Holy Roman Empire came to an end with the establishment of the Confederation of the Rhine. 1815 The German Confederation was formed at the Congress of Vienna. 1848 Revolutions swept across Germany. The first German national assembly met at Frankfurt in the hopes of creating a more united country. 1871 Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck realized his dr ...

... that period, the Church was gaining control over Western Europe. The Church was not only the main religious focus of Western Europe; it was also the central government. “The Romans never took much interest in theoretical science.� This means that all laws created by the church would be enforced to full extent. Disobeying the rules could result in excommunication, which is the banishment from church membership and from participating in any church rituals. Those who were members of the Church believed strongly in the powers of God and the Holy Ghost. It was thought that God controlled the entire universe, fr ...

... that contributed to the changes in American society. The 1920s began shortly after in World War I when the United States and the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918. Many Americans were fed up with Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president from 1913 to 1921. The first election of the 1920s scoured Republican Warren G. Harding against Democrat James M. Cox. Cox supported Wilson and the League of Nations in the election. However, Harding won the election in a landslide, which was a sign of America¡¦s frustration with Wilson and his optimistic and liberal policies. The start of the new conservative era restored the pow ...

... government. When found out he suppressed the conspiracy and had many of his cohorts executed. Although this was one of his greatest accomplishments, he was exiled in 58 B.C. After a year of concentrating on his writing, was called back to Rome by Pompey the Great. In 51 B.C. he was assigned to the position of proconsul of the providence of Cilicia. In 50 B.C. returned to Rome to help Pompey with his fight against Caesar, but after Pompey's defeat became a supporter of Caesar. After Caesar's assassination went back into politics and became a supporter of Octavian. On December 7, 43 B.C., was excecuted by ...

... The popular, or traditional, view that dominated the 1950s and 60s--put forth by President Harry Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson-- was that the dropping of the atomic bombs was a solely military action that avoided the loss of as many as a million lives in the upcoming invasion of the island of Kyushu. In the e1960s a second school of thought developed--put forth by "revisionist" historians--that claimed the dropping of the bomb was a diplomatic maneuver aimed at intimidating and gaining the upper hand in relations with Russia. I feel that the dropping of the bomb was born out of a complex myriad of mil ...

... squad of British soldiers that had been struck by snow and ice balls with rocks inside thrown during a demonstration, fired into the crowd, killing five men. The eight soldiers and their commanding officer were tried for murder and were defended by John Adams, later president of the United States, and Josiah Quincy. Two of the soldiers were declared guilty of manslaughter, and the others, including the officer, were acquitted. The incident was skillfully exploited by the American patriot Samuel Adams to create anti-British sentiment in the colonies. After the incident the patriots of Massachusetts Bay were more and ...

... the war after a call for protection and help by the Arabs. They set a deadline on January 15th , 1991 for all Iraq forces to be out of Kuwait, but Saddam and his army ignored the deadline. That triggered Desert Shield, or the build up of troops in the region and eventually led to , an all-out attack to free Kuwait.It can be clearly said that due to the extreme power and sophistication of the United States and its allies that Saddam Hussein and his small nation of 18 million people stood no chance what so ever against the mighty military of the United States and its allies.On the final night of the war, within ho ...

... dreams of gaining control of the Islamic heartland came to nothing, partly because many other independent states refused to support them and partly because they, like the 'Abbasids in Baghdad, lost effective control of their own mercenaries. Such developments weakened the Fatimids, but thanks to a family of viziers of Armenian origin they were able to endure until the Ayyubid succession in the second half of the twelfth century - even in the face of the eleventh-century invasion by the Seljuk Turks. MAMLUKES: Because a minor scion of the dynasty took refuge with the Mamluks in Egypt, the 'Abbasid caliphate continu ...

... economy called for some private ownership of the means of production, but the majority of industry was made property of the people, which meant the majority of the means of production was controlled by the government. Lenin's government made many achievements. It ended a long civil war against the remnants of the old Tsarist military system and established institutions in government. During this period, censorship and the subordination of interest groups such as trade unions was imposed to stop dissension and increase conformity to the new government policies. After Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin quickly g ...