The Long and Short-Term Causes of WW2

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Gerald Ford served in WWII before entering the House of Representatives for 25 years. Ford was appointed Vice President in the wake of Nixon’s Watergate Scandal and would soon become the first unelected president after Nixon’s resignation from office.

Inspired by middle age beheading devices, the Guillotine became a common fixture in the wake of the French Revolution, severing the heads of thousands, including King Louis the 16th and Marie Antoinette.

General William Tecumseh Sherman’s march to the sea during the Civil War was a strategy to break the morale of Confederate supporters by marching a division of the Union Army from Atlanta to Charleston, wreaking havoc along the way.

As protests of wage and working conditions by industrial workers were violently denied by Police, a retaliation rally was organized at Haymarket Square, which soon escalated into a deadly riot.

A three-century-long period of antisemitism, the Spanish Inquisition witnessed the Catholic Church’s prosecution of an estimated 150,000 people, with more than 4,500 people tortured or executed for their religious beliefs.

Attila the hun was the last strong leader in a long succession of Hun rulers. Attila would showcase his power and strength by storming through the Balkans on multiple occasions to invade, pillage, and pilfer.

Checks and balances is the method of dividing power, responsibility, and oversight of the three branches of government known as the legislative, executive and judicial branches.