Civil war
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 Civil war  (war)   | |
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| A war between groups within a single nation state, |
A civil war is a war between groups within the same nation state,[1] or, less commonly, between two countries created from a formerly united state.[2]
Examples
| Page name | Description |
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| 2014 Ukraine coup/Civil war | |
| Angolan civil war | A power struggle between two former anti-colonial guerrilla movements in Angola, 1975-2002. |
| Rhodesian Bush War | Civil war in Southern Africa from 1964 to 1979 |
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author |
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| George Carlin | “So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just kinda on paper. And that of course was at the end of the Civil War. Now there is another phrase I dearly love. That is a true oxymoron if I've ever heard one — civil war. D'you think anybody in this country could ever really have a civil war? "Say, pardon me...*machinegun sounds*...I'm awfully sorry! Awfully sorry."” | George Carlin |
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References
- ↑ James Fearon, "Iraq's Civil War" in Foreign Affairs, March/April 2007. For further discussion on civil war classification, see the section "Formal classification".
- ↑ Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War | Book Reviews, EH.net. "Two nations [within the U.S.] developed because of slavery." October 2006. Retrieved July 2009.
