It also weakened our diplomatic stance, because Russia could easily guess we did not desire a nuclear war except in the ultimate extremity.

Since 2002, when the 27-year civil war ended, the country has worked to repair and improve ravaged infrastructure and weakened political and social institutions.

The war had severely weakened the Nationalists, while the Communists were strengthened by their popular land-reform policies, and by a rural population that supported and trusted them.

A year later war broke out and the competition was considerably weakened, with Geelong being forced to pull out of the competition due to travel restrictions as a result of petrol rationing.

The German film industry was seriously weakened by the war, though with the major companies continuing as before.

Civil war and rivalling claims to the throne, combined with the external threat of the Sea Peoples weakened the Hittites and by 1160 BC, the Empire had collapsed.

The British Empire was severely weakened by the war.

Since the end of the war, the Lebanese have conducted several elections, most of the militias have been weakened or disbanded, and the Lebanese Armed Forces ( LAF ) have extended central government authority over about two-thirds of the country.

The Hanseatic League was greatly weakened by this and the city state of Luebeck fought its last great war.

Furthermore, the final lost of the war against the Holy Roman Empire weakened the position of the King, who had to faced several rebellions among the opposition, who claimed that the previous war didn't produce the expected benefits.

Britain and France believed that war could still be avoided, and that the Soviet Union, weakened by the Great Purge, could not be a main military participant, a point that many military sources were at variance with, especially after the sound thrashing administered to the Japanese Kwantung army on the Manchurian frontier.

The French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the subsequent war in Europe weakened Spain's ability to maintain contact with and defend and control its colonies.

* Bonifacius, weakened by the civil war against empress Galla Placidia, sues for peace and is elevated to the rank of supreme commander ( magister militum ) of Africa.

* 17 December – Timur defeats the last ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, which had been weakened after 4 years of civil war.

The effects of the war were to reaffirm Persia's ability to interfere successfully in Greek politics and to affirm Sparta's weakened hegemonic position in the Greek political system.

In 1387 a quarrel between Frederick, Duke of Bavaria, and the cities of the Swabian League allied with the Archbishop of Salzburg gave the signal for a general war in Swabia, in which the cities, weakened by their isolation, mutual jealousies and internal conflicts, were defeated by the forces of Eberhard II, Count of Württemberg, at Döffingen, near Gafenau, on 24 August 1388.

For France however, the military defeat and the financial burden of the war weakened the monarchy and contributed to the advent of the French Revolution in 1789.

In 1171 Afonso concluded a seven years truce with the Moors ; weakened by his wound and by old age, he could no longer take the field, and when the war broke out afresh he delegated the chief command to his son Sancho.

First strike capability is a country's ability to defeat another nuclear power by destroying its arsenal to the point where the attacking country can survive the weakened retaliation while the opposing side is left unable to continue war.

His assent to the " anti-war " clause weakened their arguments for abolishing the throne or trying the emperor as a war criminal.

His demise is a turning point in history, given the fact that the new war against Persia weakened both empires in a way enabling the Slavs to permanently settle the Balkans and paving the way for Arab / Muslim expansion.

Set against this, the purges of the Red Army leadership, in which Molotov participated, weakened the Soviet Union's defence capacity and contributed to the military disasters of 1941 and 1942, which were mostly caused by unreadiness for war.

The Xiongnu use of large numbers of heavy cavalry with iron armour for both rider and horse gave them a decisive advantage over Jin armies already weakened and demoralised by three years of civil war.

Taking advantage of civil war in the Jin Dynasty, the contemporary non-Han Chinese ( Wu Hu ) ethnic groups controlled much of the country in the early 4th century and provoked large-scale Han Chinese migrations to south of the Yangtze River.

The Jurchen-founded Jin Dynasty was defeated by the Mongols, who then proceeded to defeat the Southern Song in a long and bloody war, the first war in which firearms played an important role.

* War of the Eight Princes: After the death of Emperor Sima Yan ( Jin Wudi ) a civil war breaks out among the princes and dukes of the Jin Dynasty.

* January 8 – Emperor Jin Huidi dies after a 16-year reign in which eight dukes of the imperial family have conducted a civil war ( War of the Eight Princes ) against each other in a struggle for power.

The Jin now faced a two front war which they could not afford.

Furthermore, the Jin Emperor Āizōng ( 哀宗 ) won a succession struggle against his brother and then quickly ended the war and went back to the capital.

In 943, they declared war on this kingdom, and within three years seized the capital, Kaifeng — thus marking the end of Later Jin Dynasty.

To flee from the ravage of war, Zu's grandfather Zu Chang moved to the Yangtze, as part of the massive population movement during the Eastern Jin.

Amid the interstate power struggles, internal conflict was also rife: six elite landholding families waged war on each other in Jin ; the Chen family was eliminating political enemies in Qi ; and legitimacy of the rulers was often challenged in civil wars by various royal family members in Qin and Chu.

A full-scale civil war between 497 and 453 BC ended with the elimination of most noble lines ; the remaining aristocratic families divided Jin into three successor states: Han, Wei, and Zhao.

The year 1211 marked the beginning of the war between the Mongols and the Jin Dynasty.

The Jin Dynasty was able to hold Genghis Khan ( Temüjin ) and his Mongol army at bay for the first two years of the war.

The aftermath of the battle includes the Former Qin empire falling into massive civil war and its eventual destruction, ensuring the survival of Eastern Jin and other Chinese regimes south of the Yangtze River ( Chang Jiang ).

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In the later stages of the war, Ba Jin completed the famous Torrents Trilogy — of which The Family ( 1931 ) was the first written — with Spring ( 1938 ) and Autumn ( 1940 ).

Not content with the annexation of the Liao kingdom, and perceiving the weakness of the Song empire, the Jin soon declared war on their former ally, and by the beginning of 1126 the troops of the Jin " Western Vice-marshal " Wanyan Wolibu crossed the Yellow River and came in sight of Kaifeng, the capital of the Song empire.

The Song empire, however, had to sign a humiliating treaty with the Jin, agreeing to pay a colossal war indemnity and to give a tribute to Jin every year.

In 1230, Mongke went to war for the first time, following Ogedei Khan and his father Tolui into battle against the Jurchen Jin Dynasty.

The Jin Dynasty, who had unified China 24 years earlier, was tottering in collapse due to a major civil war.