I need help with a history question plese?

Question

I need a event in History that has been changed due to someone not getting the right message, misinformation, or a mistake in sharing knowledge. I don't want to use the discover of America (Its already been used).

Answer 1

The cause of the American Civil War was not slavery but big business.

The United States is always Innocent. I know you will not believe this but there has all ready been a holocaust in this country (I mean other then what we did to the native Americans) take a look at Johnson s Island (northern Ohio); Camp Douglas (Chicago); and Elmira (New York).

The official U.S. position on the treatment of Confederate prisoners of war during The War for Southern Independence would shock many modern Americans. The data, facts and statistics have been thoroughly eliminated from American history books. One must research the original documents to discover the horrible truth.

During the Civil War (1861-1865), the U.S. House of Representatives passed the following resolution: "Rebel prisoners in our hands are to be subjected to a treatment finding its parallels only in the conduct of savage tribes and resulting in the death of multitudes by the slow but designed process of starvation and by mortal diseases occasioned by insufficient and unhealthy food and wanton exposure of their persons."

One Yankee prison commander boasted that he had killed more Confederate soldiers than any Union officer on the front battle lines.

The story of Confederate prison camps, especially Andersonville, has been misrepresented. There was no deliberate attempt to mistreat northern POWs. The South asked the North to send doctors and medicine, and they tried to exchange the prisoners.

The North refused and finally the Confederacy offered the North cotton and gold as payment to take them without exchange. Again, the North refused to do so. They knew the Confederate States of America would be honor bound to try to feed and house the Union POWs and to do so would hamper the Confederate war effort.

God Bless You and Our Southern People.

Answer 2

The closest the world ever came to nuclear war. It was in 1994, I think, after the cold war. What happened was that Norway sent a communique to all the major world nations that it was launching a rocket into the atmosphere for weather research. Well, in Russia, the notice sat in some low-level clerk's desk and never made it to anyone important. Fast forward to the day of the launch, and you have Russian military noticing a radar read-out of a large rocket headed toward them, that was the shape of a United States Polaris nuclear missle. In response, they broke out the "box" and then-President Boris Yeltsin sat with his hand on the button for a good while until the missle started veering away from Russia. That was the closest we've come to nuclear war, all because someone "dropped the ball". (This is really scary considering Yeltsin was a notorious drunkard)

Answer 3

History is full of them: ... the Spanish American War ("remember the Maine!") the current Iraq war ... the war or 1812 ... Tom is right about Custer who underestimated what he was up against. and that reminds my ; the first battle of Wounded Knee ...Chief Bigfoot traveled to the area with women and children (a sign of peace) and the US Army saw The arrival of Bigfoot as a sign of impending attack. ... Look at Constantine . He saw a cross shape in the sky and interpreted, or possibly misinterpreted, it as a sign from God , and his form of "God and country" Christianity took over most of Europe This was very different from early Christianity. Most of the answers are about battles, but there has also been misinformation in field of medicine. For example, look at Thalidomide thought to be a safe medicine and the result was babies without limbs. ...

Answer 4

What about the Chicago Tribune printing up the newspaper that Dewey defeated Truman in 1948

Answer 5

Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of the Little Big Horn
Pearl Harbor

Answer 6

Try the rise of the Nazis. The "right" message was in Hitler's book Mein Kampf. Had world leaders read it and taken it seriously, perhaps they would have had the foresight to see where world events would lead.

Answer 7

How about the Bush/Gore elections in 2000? The news stations all gave Gore the elections and then Bush ended up winning after all the recounts.

Answer 8

The most popular one is about the charge of the light brigade. They attacked the wrong place (via miscommunication) and a whole light brigade of 673 men died. What is more impressive is that the men knew the charge was suicide, but carried it out anyway for King and country.
A famous poem was written about it.

Answer 9

The War in Iraq

Answer 10

Custer's last stand is another one which has not been mentioned yet or the battle of sand creek.