Why were the battles of gettysburg and vicksburg significant? a. they were the first major battles of the war and showed how costly it would be. b. they were the last battles of the war and resulted in the confederacy's surrender. c. they were major victories for the south and left the northern armies weakened. d. they turned the war in favor of the north in both the eastern and western theaters.

apartheid, (afrikaans: “apartness”) policy that governed relations between south africa's white minority and nonwhite majority and sanctioned racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhites. people should not get this wrong. i was just answering a question.

united states reinforcements contributed greatly to three allied victories in france at: cantigny (first major american battle), argonne (the largest in the united states military history, involving 1.2 million american soldiers), and château-thierry (one of the first actions under general pershing).