The Government Has Used a Variety of Methods of Financing

question 27

Essay

The government has used a variety of methods of financing wars.Discuss the methods used in the Revolutionary War,the Civil War (1861-65)for both sides,and World War I (1914-18),and whether they enabled the government to achieve its long-term and short-term goals.Who were the winners and losers of the government's policies both during and after the war?

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Definitions:

Psychosexual Development

A Freudian theory that describes how personality develops during childhood through a series of stages focused on erogenous zones.

Fixation

An obsessive focus or attachment to a particular stage of development, object, or activity, often resulting in stagnation in psychological growth.

Unconscious

Part of the mind that is inaccessible to the conscious mind but that affects behaviors and emotions.

Hypnosis

A state of heightened focus and concentrative relaxation, induced by suggestion, that can alter perception, sensation, and can be used for therapeutic purposes.