Great Deceptions in Military History

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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.

After the Great Depression and World War Two, the American Dream of the 1950s was to buy a home, start a family and enjoy American capitalism. Despite Cold War concerns, progress in civil rights, culture and entertainment were made in great strides.

After the roaring 20s ended with the stock market crash of 1929, the Great Depression was a decade-long period of financial hardship and stagnation. It would take a second world war to bring the nation out of the depression.