The Plan de San Diego Revolt was an occasion in the historical backdrop of south Texas that has for quite some time been known to students of history of Mexico and of the Mexican Revolution. Named for the Texas town where it was declared, the Plan called for Tejanos to ascend, reclaim Texas from the Anglos, and return it to Mexico . Benjamin Heber Johnson review, Revolution in Texas, approaches the Plan de San Diego Revolt from a totally alternate point of view. This is on account of, in his view, the brutality of 1914 and 1915 along the lower Rio Grande was really the appearance of more profound, more significant statistic and financial changes in the locale. These progressions agitate the predominant racial, social, political, and financial…
The Gutierrez Magee Expedition of 1812. The Gutierrez Magee expedition, left a humongous scar on the state of Texas. Unlike previous wars and fights, the Expedition not only changed Texas, but also many other southwestern states. It also made possible for an expansion to the United States territory, in a magnificent way.…
This revolution can be both beneficial and negative, depending on who it hits. This war that America had had some lasting impacts such as women taking the role of their husbands and demanding equal rights, the change in political ideologies and births to new forms of government and lastly this impacted the Indians who settled areas that were being taken over by people expanding westward. These are just three examples of how revolutionary this war was to what we know today as America. Without this revolution who knows how the world would look…
The Cuban Revolution for its use of Guerilla Warfare throughout the movement, and its aim was to use small forces to attack big ones repetitively, eventually making the bigger enemy withdraw. December 1956- the July 26 movement sails back to Cuba and makes their way to Sierra Maestra mountains, where they spent 3 years carrying out guerrilla attacks against Batista’s government forces. 1960- The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces are founded, which consisted of ground forces, naval forces, air and air defence forces, and other paramilitary bodies.…
Lucy Horn 4-27-15 English~3rd hour Social Studies~6th hour Total War In 1846 war broke out between two neighboring countries. “US historians refer to this event as ‘The Mexican War’, in Mexico its called ‘The US Invasion’ (Doc. C, paragraph 1).” The Mexican War had lasted two years, 1846 to 1848. Ten years before the war, Texas had declared its independence from Mexico in 1836. Not long before that, in 1821, Mexico had declared independence from Spain.…
The Cold War was affected by several countries at the time. Sometimes affected positively, other times negatively. Nicaragua was one of the countries that affected the Cold war because they were a communist country, and the people of Nicaragua did not know that communism was bad. When the U.S marines came to Nicaragua, the Contra War erupted, and a guerilla war was formed were few of the many events that affected the cold war. Nicaragua affected the Cold War positively because the the Guerrilla War, Contra War, and the U.S marines coming to Nicaragua helped Nicaragua become a non communist country.…
There were several events that led to the revolution, both economic and physical. One of the largest was Argentina's early policies during WWII. Castillo ensured Argentina maintained a policy of neutrality during the beginning of the war, to the displeasure of many citizens (Finan). This unrest was caused in part by the involvement of other South American countries. The public was pushed to a breaking point when Castillo limited constitutional freedom of speech (Finan).…
Throughout the Cold War, the United States main doctrine was that of containment, the threat of Communist expansion needed to be counter-act regardless of the cost to life and property (Davila 1950). In South America this was no exception, the United States (along with Western allies such as France, Spain, and Canada who on some instances intervened) would often work to destabilize and depose various governments, some democratic and liberal in nature, for political and social aims (Davila 1961). This included states such Argentina, Chile, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Haiti (Davila 1942). The motives for these interventions and regime changes, as clearly stated by the United States government during the 1990 invasion of Panama, was to “defend…
I am glad to communicate with you and other classmates in the following classes in every interesting topics. You indeed got my idea and I agree with that one person could do whatever he or she likes to with his or her money once it is legal and has no harm to others." As different countries have various policies about the offshore account and I am not familiar with this kind of legislation, I prefer to regard the Panama Issue as an ethical issue more than a legal matter. Actually, most of the international companies like Apple and Uber now are all involving in the overseas tax shelters. I think If we consider an country as a huge organization, to some extent, how the government leaders and the law deal with such kind of issue shows its culture…
The Spanish -American war didn’t last long but it left a huge impact on spain and the caribbean islands. Spain’s navy was weakened and they had to give a lot of the islands to the U.S. This also gave the caribbean islands their independence from spain. Because of Yellow Journalism, Spanish cruelty towards Indians, U.S. support of cuba’s independence, and the sinking of the U.S.S Maine.…
Many of the people who fled were also tied to the Baptista regime and severely mistreated Cubans of African descent who were the primary combatants during the Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898). When the war was over if you were not fair skinned life was hard and racism was very blatant. After the Cuban war of independence 100s of thousands of Black Cubans were murdered and imprisoned; which is what fueled the Castro takeover. So as much as we want to call him a murderer so was Baptista but because someone stood up he is a monster.…
Preparing for the expansion of the Panama Canal, the Port of Miami, also known as PortMiami, is faced with economic challenges and boundless markets of opportunities. Indeed, this will reshape the port development and cargo distribution that will affect one of the most significant economic markets for South Florida. PortMiami is located on Dodge Island just east of the city of Miami. It is a non-operating port owned by Miami-Dade County and managed by the Miami-Dade County Seaport Department. It accommodates 128 cargo berths (location where the vessels dock), three cargo terminal operators which include Seaboard Marine, South Florida Container Terminal, and Port of Miami Terminal Operating Company.…
The Cuban Revolution served as inspiration for other guerrilla movements in Latin America. After a long period of instability, some countries founded in this revolution the source of hope for changing the status quo of that time. Bolivia served as the main headquarters that would lead to spread the revolutionary’s ideas to neighboring countries. Under a period of constant change in Latin American Politics, it became hard for the people to believe in his ideas and to trust in someone who was not even part of their society. Even though the failure of a continental revolution, the words of Che Guevara and indeed the ideas of the Cuban revolution had an influence in insurgent movements in America.…
The Panama Canal is planning on being widened since its completion. Since there are virtually enormous shipments coming from Asia, there is an uncontested use of area needed for the Panama Canal. This work in progress is projected to be completed this year in 2015. So what will that do for the west coast ports?…
The United States has always gone to great lengths in order to be the most dominant power in the world, whether economically, militarily, socially etc. In order to be so advanced, the United States has evolved and grown to be able to gather lots of information and intelligence from around the world that concerns its own prosperity. Currently, the most dominant channel of gathering foreign information is the CIA. The Central Intelligence Agency was created to gather information on foreign policy information in order to keep Americans safe. However, CIA agents also have a huge impact on foreign perception of Americans Citizens.…