When President Truman took a hard line against striking workers in the years immediately following World War II, he:
"had little understanding of the plight of laborers in the post-war years."
During the first months of his administration, he became involved in a struggle between coal miners and railroad workers. It took several meetings, and fierce arguments, to get them to agree, and end the strike.
Answer:
The British fought a war far from home. Military orders, troops, and supplies sometimes took months to reach their destinations. The British had an extremely difficult objective. They had to persuade the Americans to give up their claims of independence. As long as the war continued, the colonists' claim continued to gain validity.
Americans had a grand cause: fighting for their rights, their independence and their liberty. This cause is much more just than waging a war to deny independence. American military and political leaders were inexperienced, but proved surprisingly competent.
The war was expensive and the British population debated its necessity. In Parliament, there were many American sympathizers. Finally, the alliance with the French gave Americans courage and a tangible threat that tipped the scales in America's favor.
Answer: Sherman tried to demoralize the South by targeting economic support structures that enabled the war to continue. He wanted to destroy the South's will to fight but maintained he would support the South when it laid down its arms; a claim validated by his actions after the war.
Explanation:
It showed a colonial revolt could produce a nation based on popular sovereignty
The King and the pope led the two hierarchies that formed the cornerstone of
feudalism. Sometimes these two figures worked together but sometimes they clashed.
