Hello! I'm doing a project on the Korean War for school and I've got mostly everything covered for each sub-topic of the entire topic...except for each of the countries viewpoints for the conflict. I've read some articles on the South's viewpoint - and it mostly comes to them not wanting Communism? - but 1) I could never really find anything for the North and 2) I'm not sure if I'm reading and unserstanding everything correctly, so it's not like I'm being lazy or whatnot. Any help is appreciated! Thank you.
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I've started watching the amazing YouTube series "The Great War", and am up to November 1914. My question is based on my knowledge from that series, so hopefully it's accurate.
The war very quickly went in a direction none of the leaders had anticipated nor wanted. Instead of a quick victory, each side is already losing millions of men and it is becoming accepted that this will be a very long war.
Given that the war was not triggered by an existential threat to anyone except Serbia, it seems to me that at this point it would make sense to start having multi-party peace talks.
Only Germany had really been spoiling for a fight for quasi-existential reasons, fearing that Russia would catch up industrially in a few years and pose a threat, hence the desire to beat them down now. But given the discovery that the nature of warfare at the time was such that defense has the advantage, due to the advent of machine guns, it seems that this might not have been a goal worth prosecuting such a costly war for.
So if Germany and Russia had been willing to back off to previous borders and made peace, then the Austrians would have had to accept a peace with Russia as well due to their heavy losses and lack of German support. Without Russia to fight, Germany had no reason to continue invading France, and if they had backed off presumably France and the UK would have accepted peace as well. With all this chaos gone, the Ottomans would also presumably have looked for peace with Russia too.
So lots of people lose some face, but millions of lives are saved.
Why did something like this not happen?
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Wouldn't this have saved millions of lives? Or did we have bigger priorities..?
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Some friends and I were talking about colonialism and I brought up Belgium's horrific colonial behavior in the Congo, yet of the ones who knew about it, they didn't know much, and the rest had no idea. How is that Belgium was able to get this swept under the rug, yet other countries' behavior in their colonies is widely known?
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I read that somewhere a long time ago, and I couldn't find any statements or evidence on Wikipedia. I know the question sounds a bit stupid, but is there any truth to it?
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Most of them feed the idea that he was a pedophile alcoholic, but it's been recognized that that was due to Griswold somehow getting the rights of literary executor to Poe’s estate. Have any biographers recognized this?
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Was the information dispensed to the general population, or kept under wraps? Was their space program demoralized or did they double down their efforts in their own space program?
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And how much did the Emancipation Proclamation effect British opinions on the south? From what I've read, the Emancipation Proclamation helped dissuade support from the Europeans to the Confederacy by changing the purpose of the war to slavery and reminding Britain and other countries that support for the Confederacy would mean support of a slave based country. How true is this? Did Britain not support the South due to its support of slavery? Did they really consider supporting the South?
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I am not a historian, in fact a high school sophomore but this topic came up between my little brother, my mom and I. I would like to know the in-depth reasoning of his crew declaring an immunity.
What percentage of the crew was sent to perish along with Hudson?
Wasn't his son sent off in the dinghy with him?
What was the fate of those who stayed on the boat and left Hudson?
Why did they leave them? Was it because of Hudson wanting to explore and refusing to go back for more supplies?
Who led the immunity? Was it Hudson's first mate?
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From what I know, The U.S. didn't really get involved until like 1917 towards the end of the war, in 1918. So did they utilize trenches dug by the French and British, or did they dig their own? Thanks to this sub.
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I realized that when I think of the advent and spread of electricity, I always think about it in relation to the light bulb and lighting homes, but that is far from the only use of electricity today. Had there been other practical purposes before the light bulb or was that the first?
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