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- 2201: Depression
- ... approximately two million unemployed people, with prices falling and a national deficit of one hundred and seventy million pounds plus a thirty-five million pounds in payment to the United states for support in World war I. Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald and his government, a group called the "National Coalition Government of Conservatives, Labourites and Liberals", stated several ideas which together would cause a solution to the falling financial and industrial ... another step was to reinforce flood control and reclamation by adding additional funding to those programs. And finally to add additional funds for federal buildings over the country. After nearly coming to victory in World War I, Germany was the victim of a devastating depression. "…the Depression caused more unemployment and misery in Germany that in any other country." Many blamed Socialists, Jews, and foreigners for the problems caused by the depression. After World War I Adolf Hitler was pronounced Chancellor of Germany he commenced in a great rebuilding stage of Germany which was left in ruins after the war and the Treaty of Versailles. His approach to combat ...
- 2202: PEPSI VS COKE
- ... be very complex. Many issues have to be resolved before a company can even consider entering uncharted foreign waters. This becomes very evident as one begins to study the international cola wars. The domestic cola war between Coca-Cola and Pepsi is still raging. However, the two soft-drink giants also recognize that opportunities for growth in many of the mature markets have slowed. Both Coca-Cola, which sold 10 billion ... country's market. Coke patriarch Robert Woodruff realized this 50 years ago and unleashed a brilliant ploy to make Coke the early bird in many of the major foreign markets. At the height of World War II, Woodruff proclaimed that Awherever American boys were fighting, they'd be able to get a Coke.@ By the time Pepsi tried to make its first international pitch in the 50s, Coke had already established ... 55,000 jobs over the next 7 years. Naturally, Mexico has become another battleground in the international cola wars. In Mexico, Coca-Cola and Pepsi command 50% and 21% of the market respectively. The cola war is especially hot here because the per capita consumption of Coca-Cola and Pepsi exceeds that of the United States (Murphy, 6). Mexico is the only soft-drink market in the world that can ...
- 2203: Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990’s
- ... s saw the pendulum swing against the women’s movement. Violent acts against women who sought abortions became common and the government was unsympathetic to the victims. There are parallels between the Southern Black’s civil rights movement and the women’s movement: Blacks have long been accustomed to the white government being unsympathetic to violent acts against them. During the civil rights movement, legal action seemed only to come when a white civil rights activist was killed. Women are facing similar disregard presently, and their movement is truly one for civil rights. A national campaign by the National Organization of Women began on 2 March 1984, demanding ...
- 2204: Dwight D Eisenhower
- ... he met Mamie Geneva Doud, whom he married in 1916. He excelled at many staff assignments and served under the guidance of many great generals. After Pearl Harbor he was called to Washington for a war plans assignment. He commanded the allied forces landing in North Africa in November 1942. On D-Day, 1944, he was the supreme commander of the troops invading France. After the war he became President of Columbia University. In 1951 he took supreme command over the new NATO forces. Republican emmissaries to his headquarters near Paris persuaded him to run for President. On June 4, 1952 he ... I Like Ike” to help him win. He was able to serve two terms as President of the United States from January 20, 1953 to January 20, 1961. He saw the end of the Korean War, and promoted “Atoms for Peace” and dealt with several crisis in Lebanon, Suez, Berlin, and Hungary in Foreign affairs. He helped make Alaska and Hawaii become states. Throughout his presidency he was very concerned ...
- 2205: Atomic Diplomacy
- ... S. international relations. Hopefully, an investigation into this atomic diplomacy, along with a balanced analysis of the problems of conceptualizing and implementing containment, will provide insight for our current efforts to devise a workable post-war national security policy. There is no way to tell the story of post-war national security without also telling the story of George Kennen. Kennen, the foremost expert of Soviet Affairs in early post-war America, is almost wholly responsible for the policy of containment. Nuclear weapons were part of an integrated system of containment and deterrence. Truman told Kennen in early 1947 that, "Our weapons of mass destruction ...
- 2206: The Colonial Economy
- ... was then the type of economic system Western Europe's colonizing nations employed. Free markets, he argued, caused resources to be allocated to their most efficient uses; mercantilism did not. Mercantilists though trade was like war: for everyone who gained, someone lost. Smith said when trade is voluntary, because people are (generally!) rational and self interested, only transactions that benefit both parties will take place. (In a free market economy, supply ... in the thirteen colonies was in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. (The Spanish had earlier established a settlement in Florida (St. Augustine), which was not one of the original thirteen states.) At the time of Revolutionary War, tobacco-producing Virginia was the most wealthy and populous of the thirteen colonies, and per capita income in the thirteen colonies possibly exceeded that of the Mother Country, England. On the eve of the revolution ... small farm can be operated by a family. A large farm like a Southern plantation can efficiently employ additional workers. Rather than have farm laborers work on an individual basis as took place after the Civil War in the South when sharecropping was turned to, in the colonial period these workers were usually organized in gangs, which is thought to have been the more productive method. In order to accumulate ...
- 2207: Custer's Last Stand
- ... lad. I did not work hard at my studies. I graduated at the bottom of my class fro the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1861, and joined the Union Forces in the Civil War. I can honestly say that I was and still am very smart but I never accerted myself, I guess you could say that I was lazy. Well, during the war I served with General McClellan in Virginia. In 1863 I was assigned to the cavalry and soon revealed daring and brilliance as an officer. As a result I was promoted quickly. When the war ...
- 2208: Food Processing
- ... the case of meat and fish, other preservation methods, such as smoking or salting, which yielded a palatable product, were generally preferred. Commercial dehydration of vegetables was initiated in the United States during the American Civil War but, as a result of the poor quality of the product, the industry declined sharply after the war. This cycle was repeated with subsequent wars, but after World War II the dehydration industry thrived. This industry is confined largely to the production of a few dried foods, however, such as milk, soup, ...
- 2209: Bacons Rebellion
- ... Governor Berkeley heard this he ordered an arrest of Nathaniel Bacon. This enraged Bacon even more so he led his men on an attack against the Governor. The colony of Virginia was now in a civil war. During this war or revolution the capital city of Virginia, Jamestown, was burned to the ground. A period of burning and looting began by both sides of the ordeal, which did not end until 1676 when Nathaniel ...
- 2210: Welfare
- ... resembled the English system. Social governments were responsible for helping the poor. But the colonies and later the states, sometimes helped the local government provide aid. The first federal welfare program, began after the Revolutionary War, they provided pensions to war veterans. During the Civil War these pensions were expanded to cover soldiers' widows and orphans. In the early 1900's, primary responsibility for providing welfare benefits shifted from local to state governments. During these years, states enacted programs ...
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