A proxy war is a conflict that involves two countries or more using lesser countries to fight each other. One of the most famous proxy wars in the cold war took place in Vietnam. Beginning in 1955 and ending in 1975, it was a grueling war that saw the Americans withdraw from the conflict. The Americans launched hundreds of firebombing and herbicide campaigns, making the Vietnamese citizens suffer. North Vietnam had a Communist regime backed by the U.S.S.R, while the south was backed by the Capitalist U.S.A. The Americans sent about 2,700,000 troops to fight the North. About 58,000 Americans were lost. As many as 2,000,000 civilians on both North and South died, and 1,100,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters died in action. The war ultimately resulted in a Communist victory, and Vietnam was reunited as a Communist country.
Presidents: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Maddison, James Monroe, John Q Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William H Harrison, John Tyler, James K Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S Grant, Rutherford B Hayes, James A Garfield, Chester A Aurthur, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William H Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, Dwight D Eisenhower, John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H W Bush, Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Obama, and, sadly, Donald Trump.
<span>The executive branch consuls: it is e</span>lected by an assembly; ruled as chief executives for one year and it controlled the military
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legislative branch
Senate: </span>it had around 300 members; specifically chosen by aristocrats and they were responsible for foreign affairs and financial policies
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Centuriate Assembly: was a </span> group of citizen soldiers that were members for the rest of their life, elected consuls and drafted/passed legislation
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Tribal Assembly: </span>Citizens were put into groups depending on where they lived, members for life, elected tribunes
<span><span>Judicial Branch
Praetors:</span> </span>Eight judges were chosen by the Centuriate Assembly to serve for a only a year, two of the eight supervised civil court and criminal court
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<span>legal code:
</span></span>The Twelve Tables was similar to the Bill of Rights, but it only protected free-born male citizens under the law.
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citizenship</span>
Given to adult man landowners.
<span>one major difference was
Dictators a</span>ppointed by consuls and elected by the Senate in a time of catastrophe, power lasted for six months
The american republic
The Founding Fathers of the US borrowed some of the elements of government from Rome, but they developed and added a few innovations. Unlike Rome, checks and balances came from the workings of three areas of government: a President, who was responsible for the jobs of Commander in Chief of the military, would appoint ambassadors to take care of foreign policy, and could propose laws to the Legislative Branch; the Legislative Branch, including both a Senate, whose members are elected for six year terms, and a House of Representatives, whose members are elected for two year terms. Both houses need to agree on a law before it is sent to the President for signature. Finally, they created an independent Judiciary known as the Supreme Court whose job it was to ensure that laws passed by the Legislature were consistent with the U.S. Constitution.
The Roman government, though was advanced for its time, it was was overcome with corruption and instability. The Senate would usually have more power over the Executive branch and there was very little to no independence among the branches of government, which tended to be heavily influenced by dominant political faction. The United States distributes its power evenly. Because each state has both local and national representatives, it helps promote the interests of the people in a way that Roman government did not. The American Republic is a lot more evolved and refined then that of Ancient Rome.
<span>The end of World War II saw the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union emerge as the primary victors. The importance of the Republic of China and France was acknowledged by their inclusion, along with the other three, in the group of countries allotted permanent seats in the United Nations Security Council.</span>
