DOMINIQUE

THE MALVING/ FALKLANDS WAR

• It began on Friday 2 April 1982 when Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands in an attempt to establish the sovereignty it has long claimed over them.
• On 5 April, the British government dispatched a naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and Air Force before making an amphibious assault on the islands.
• The conflict lasted 74 days and ended with the Argentine surrender on 14 June 1982
• 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 British military personnel and 3 Falkland Islanders died during the hostilities.

THE MALVINAS/FALKLANDS WAR

• The conflict has had a strong impact in both countries and has been the subject of various books, articles, films and songs.
• The British government saw it as an invasion of territory that has been British also since the 19th century.
• Relations between the United Kingdom and Argentina were restored in 1989 following a meeting in Madrid,
• The ongoing tension between the two countries over the islands increased on 19 March
• Britain was initially taken by surprise by the Argentine attack on the South Atlantic islands, despite repeated warnings by Royal Navy captain Nicholas Barker and others.

THE MAVIINAS/FALKLANDS WAR

• On 2 April 1982, Argentine forces mounted amphibious landings of the Falkland Islands,
• following the civilian occupation of South Georgia on 19 March, before the Falklands War began.
• 2 April 1982 Argentine invasion, Operation Rosario, took the British by surprise.
• The British undertook a series of military operations as a means of recapturing the Falkands from Argentine occupation.
• On 6 April, the British Government set up a War Cabinet to provide day-to-day political oversight of the campaign

THE MALVINAS/ FALKLANDS WAR

• The United States was concerned by the prospect of Argentina turning to the Soviet Union for support
• The US provided the United Kingdom with military equipment ranging from submarine detectors to the latest missiles
• While France overtly backed the United Kingdom, a French technical team remained in Argentina throughout the war.
• The government had no contingency plan for an invasion of the islands, and the task force was rapidly put together from whatever vessels were available.[

GULF WAR

• August 2,1990 - February 28,1991
• The war was marked by the beginning of live news on the front lines of the fight, with the primacy of the U.S. network CNN.[
• The initial conflict to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait began with an aerial bombardment on 17 January 1991.
• This was followed by a ground assault on 24 February.
• This was a decisive victory for the Coalition forces, who liberated Kuwait and advanced into Iraqi territory.

GULF WAR

• United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 passed in April 1991 established formal cease-fire terms
• Gulf War and Persian Gulf War have been the most common terms for the conflict used within Western countriesy
• Throughout the Cold War, Iraq had been an ally of the Soviet Union, and there was a history of friction between it and the United States.
• In March 1982, Iran began a successful counteroffensive
• The Iraq-Kuwait dispute also involved Iraqi claims to Kuwait as Iraqi territory.

GULF WAR

• The result of the Jeddah talks was an Iraqi demand for $10 billion to cover the lost revenues from Rumaila the Kuwaiti response was to offer $9 billion.
• The Iraqi response was to immediately order the invasion
• A key element of U.S. political-military and energy economic planning occurred in early 1984.
• Within hours of the invasion, Kuwait and U.S. delegations requested a meeting of the United Nations Security Council

CHINESE CIVIL WAR

• was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China led by the Kuomintang
• The conflict eventually resulted in two de facto states.
• The war represented an ideological split between the Communist CPC, and the KMT's brand of Nationalism.
• The civil war continued intermittently until late 1937, when the two parties formed a Second United Front to counter a Japanese invasion
• Strong initial support from the U.S. diminished, and then stopped completely primarily because of KMT corruption.

CHINESE CIVIL WAR

• During the war both the Nationalist and Communists carried out mass atrocities with millions of non-combatants killed by both sides during the civil war.
• Fighting between Nationalist and Communist forces began on April 12 in Shanghai.
• In 1930 the Central Plains War broke out as an internal conflict of the.
• By the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the balance of power in China's civil war had shifted in favour of the Communists.
• After the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II soviets forces turned over.

CHINESE CIVIL WAR

• To this day, no armistice or peace treaty has ever been signed, and there is debate about whether the Civil War has legally ended.
• The Qing dynasty government ended in 1911 after the Xinhai Revolution.
• In 1923 Chiang Kai-shek traveled to the Soviet Union to study military and political things with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• No agreement was made between the two governments.

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

• The Spanish Civil War July 18, 1936–April 1, 1939
• The Spanish General Francisco Franco and his troops successfully took control of Spain.
• The fascist governments of Germany and Italy provided troops and supplies for Franco, while the communist Soviet Union sold the Republican forces weapons.
• The United States, Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, we're know as international brigades.
• Half a million people died in the war, and many atrocities were committed by both sides.

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

• Franco became the ruler of Spain until he died in 1975
• The most famous was the bombing of Guernica.......
• On April 26, 1937, Guernica was bombed by Legion Condor, supported by Hitler's Nazi regime.
• the Republicans, who were loyal to the established Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a rebel group led by General Francisco Franco.

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

• They also besieged Madrid and the area to its south and west for much of the war.
• Those associated with the losing Republicans were persecuted by the victorious Nationalists
• The war became notable for the passion and political division it inspired, and for the atrocities committed by both sides in the war.
• Capturing large parts of Catalonia in 1938 and 1939, the war ended with the victory of the Nationalists

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

• The war became notable for the passion and political division it inspired
• Organized purges occurred in territory captured by Franco's forces to consolidate the future regime
• The extent to which Republican authorities connived in Republican territory killings varied.

CAUSES & EFFECTS

• prolonged conflict that is carried out by states or non-state actors.
• The set of techniques used by a group to carry out war is known as warfare
• scholars see warfare as an inescapable and integral aspect of human nature, others argue that it is only inevitable
• phenomenon whose form and scope is defined by the society that wages it.
• Miscommunications,attacks

CAUSES&EFFECTS

• Soldiers subject to combat in war often suffer mental and physical injuries, including depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, disease, injury, and death.
• losing nations are sometimes required to pay war reparations to the victorious nations.
• More war and resources lost
• Lots of money used and many city's or towns damaged

CAUSES&EFFECTS

• Pay back
• Casualties