NounSingular civil war Plural civil wars civil war (plural civil wars) From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. A civil war is a war between organized groups within a single nation state, or, less commonly, between two nations created from a formerly-united nation state. The aim of one side may be to take control of the nation or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies. It is high-intensity conflict, often involving regular armed forces, that is sustained, organized and large-scale. Civil wars result in large numbers of casualties and the consumption of large resources. Civil wars since the end of World War II have lasted on average just over four years, a dramatic rise from the one-and-a-half year average of the 1900-1944 period. While the rate of emergence of new civil wars has been relatively steady since the mid-1800s, the increasing length of those wars resulted in increasing numbers of wars ongoing at any one time. For example, there were no more than five civil wars underway simultaneously in the first half of the twentieth century, while over 20 concurrent civil wars were occurring at the end of the Cold War, before a significant decrease as conflicts strongly associated with the superpower rivalry came to an end. Since 1945, civil wars have resulted in the deaths of over 25 million people, as well as the forced displacement of millions more. Civil wars have further resulted in economic collapse; Burma (Myanmar), Uganda and Angola are examples of nations that were considered to have promising futures before being engulfed in civil wars. Scholars investigating the cause of civil war are attracted by two opposing theories, greed versus grievance. Roughly stated: are conflicts caused by who people are, whether that be defined in terms of ethnicity, religion or other social affiliation, or do conflicts begin because it is in the economic best interests of individuals and groups to start them? Scholarly analysis supports the conclusion that economic and structural factors are more important than those of identity in predicting occurrences of civil war. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License How did the civil war divide the country? Q. How did the civil war war divide the country politically, socially, morally, and geographically? Also, do you think we could have resolved the differences without war and could we have found freedom another way? Asked by AnoymonousJay - Sun Mar 2 22:24:17 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. politically: it split all the parties. E.g. suppose to be democrats v. republicans but it became northern democrats w/ northern republicans v. southern dems and repub. moral: north: free slaves, evertone equal, south: keep slaves, slave inferior geographically: Confederacy v Union, Alabama, South Carolina, etc. seceded from U.S. No way. The war was not just, are slaves equal? It was about economics. The Southerners needed free labor for cotton production. Without them, the plantations would fail and they would be bankrupt. so Southerners needed slaves for survival. Was not simply a moral issue for more, go to hope this helped. Answered by Meow* - Sun Mar 2 22:38:59 2008 How do you start a civil war in civilization 4? Q. I got the complete edition with the "Beyond the Sword" and "Warlords" expansion pack, with the seperate "Colinization" Game, but i was wondering... I remember in Civ. II you could start a civil war by capturing the enemy capital city... Can you still do that? Asked by John B - Thu Jul 23 14:47:39 2009 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments A. You'd get much better and many more answers if you tried this on the YA Gaming board. Answered by ajtheactress - Thu Jul 23 15:01:19 2009 What age did the children in the Civil War start to wear hoops?
Q. It has nothing to do with homework or anything like that.I do civil war reenacting and a girl is now practically demanding my old hoops I don't want to give them to her because she tends to be bossy She is only about 8-9 is she old enough? Asked by da sweet lemon - Sun Jul 12 13:56:45 2009 - - 3 Answers - 1 Comments A. I don't think shes old enough. I think the hoop skirt is more associated with puberty and becoming a woman. I don't do the civil war reenactment(I'm a medieval reenactor) but instinctively I think she should be older especially if she is being whiny and demanding. Shes being rude and you dpon't have to put up with it. I think somewhere in the 12-14 age frame would be better and more historically accurate. If you watch the movie "little women" you don't see the younger girls wearing a hoop skirt. Talk to the other women who do reenactment. Some might be more knowledgable on the hoop skirt and its history. Answered by coastiewife - Sun Jul 12 14:12:59 2009 From Yahoo Answer Search: "civil war"
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