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- 3881: Depression of the 1930s
- ... their creditors--it was apparent that the United States was in the grip of economic breakdown. Most European countries were hit even harder, because they had not yet fully recovered from the ravages of World War I.) The deepening depression essentially coincided with the term in office (1929-33) of President Herbert HOOVER. The stark statistics scarcely convey the distress of the millions of people who lost jobs, savings, and homes ... Adolf HITLER to power in Germany and swelling left-wing movements in other European countries. The depression was thus a time of massive insecurity among peoples and governments, contributing to the tensions that produced World War II. Ironically, however, the massive military expenditures for that war provided the economic stimulus that finally ended the depression in the United States and elsewhere. Bibliography: Bernstein, Irving, A Caring Society: The New Deal, the Worker and the Great Depression (1985); Boardman, Fon W., ...
- 3882: The 1920s and Its Impact
- ... t benifit were candian soldiers returning from WW1. Around the middle of the twenties, a wheat farmer was the person to be. Business was booming for all the wheat farmers, places like Europe, which was war torn, was hungry for Canada's wheat and contributed tremendous business to the canadian wheat industries. Farmers begain making more money than ever before, and they started buying tractors and other farm machinery to take ... at a all time high, which gave canada's wheat industry an even bigger advantage and a bigger form of maney making in canadas economy. Canadian soldiers on the other hand who had returned from war were ecpecting to be employed, but not even for their bravery and fighting for their country could they get a job. Canadian soldiers were surprised at how difficult it was to get a job. While ... fighting in WW1, people who had business relating to military were striking it rich because of all the military equipment that was needed for the canadian army, for canadian soldiers who had fought in the war, unemployment was a reality for them. During the twenties another discovery led to a rising economy for Canada, the oil industry struck it rich in turner vally Alberta, where a huge oil discovery took ...
- 3883: The Klan Unmasked
- The Ku Klux Klan has been the most organized of the many different White supremacy groups that came into being after the Civil War. The ill-reputed Knights of the Klan have been involved in countless incidents of human rights violations against blacks and other minority groups in America. Especially in the South, during and after the Reconstruction period ...
- 3884: Software Piracy
- ... important defense against any violation of people's rights; without an honest majority, no amount of effort by the police will be effective. In almost all countries of the world, there are statutes, criminal and civil, which provides for enforcement of copyrighted software programs. The criminal penalties range from fines to jail terms or both. Civil penalties may reach as high as $100,000 per infringement. In many countries, companies as well as individuals may face civil and criminal sanctions. There are several different types of software piracy. Networking is major cause to software piracy. Most licenses to software is written so that the program can only be installed on one ...
- 3885: The Reign of Terror
- ... The church had become split over those who did or did not support the revolution. The Papacy was on the side of the counter-revolutionaries, and could not support the King's signing of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1791. The seasons since 1789 had been quiet, violence sporadic and viewed as behind the new way of life in France. Unfortunately, the King did not appreciate his stay in ... some districts. Yet, religion could not be easily undone, and still it's hold was seen on France as threatening "acts of God" would force peasants back into the churches to ask for forgiveness. The war of a political nature raged silently, as the different factions of the Convention dared not fight openly. Upon returning to Paris, Danton immediately took the side of Robespierre, condemning the Enrages' and the Hebertists. However ...
- 3886: Henry V
- ... Caption Jamy, a Scot, and Caption Macmorris, an Irishman. Failing to receive help from the Dauphin, the Governor of the town yields to the English. Later, Henry and his men who are sick, underfed and war-worn, march towards Calais. They cross the Somme. At Agincourt Henry is confronted with a much larger French army under the Dauphin and the Constable of France. To test the morale of his common soldiers ... though vastly superior in numbers and equipment to the English, are decisively defeated. The field of Agincourt is strewn with the corpses of French princes and nobles. Although a big victory for the English, the war continues for five more years. Towards the end of the war, Pistol is thoroughly cudgeled by Captain Fluellen for insulting the Welsh. He is forced to eat the Welsh leek that he had derided. To save himself from a possible worse fate-since both his ...
- 3887: The Evolution of the Monroe Doctrine
- ... nation and Congress was unanimously behind him. An excellent group of advisers was chosen in 1820 who played a major role in getting Monroes objectives fulfilled. Calhoun was picked as an effective secretary of war; Wirt as attorney general was one of the best lawyers in his day, and the highly regarded Crawford became the secretary of treasury. The best decision of all was in asking John Quincy Adams to ... must have its separate system of interests which must not be subordinated to those of Europe. The insulated state in which nature has placed the American continents should so far avail that no spark or war kindled in the other quarters of the globe should be wafted across the wide oceans which separate us from them and it will be so. (Grube) Also while the Spanish colonies were insisting on recognition ... Britain. It would be more candid as well as more dignified to avow our principles explicitly to Russia and France than to come in as a cockboat in the wake of the British man-of-war. (Rink 103) By November 26, 1823 the final draft of the Monroe Doctrine was written. Congress was about to hear the famous words of James Monroe, while the Holy Alliance and its Tsar would ...
- 3888: President Millard Fillmore
- ... year he refused the plea of New York merchants that he got to South Carolina to urge temperate action, saying that the trip would do no good. Although he supported the national government during the Civil War, he felt that the conflict was unnecessary and was highly critical of the Lincoln administration. In the 1864 presidential election he supported Democrat George B. McClellan. During the Reconstruction period his sympathies were with President ...
- 3889: Video Games: The High Tech Threat to Our Younger Generation
- ... system all over its 50 states like that of the censorship on cinema and other popular media. For example, in all the Hawaiian islands the stores that are selling fake guns, combat 'videogames' and other war toys may be forced to post warnings to the extend the general public to be informed about the playthings that can increase "anger and violence" in children. The state of Hawaii have been passed a bill which would require the stores to place signs on shelves in stating : "Warning. Think before you buy. This is a war toy. Playing with it increases anger and violence in children. Is this what you really want for your child? (WAR TOYS). Which may not be very effective altogether to control the vidiegames with violent contend. But still the warning gives a chance and may be the parents pause a moment before they decide to ...
- 3890: The Wretched Of The Earth: A Review
- ... colonial society were successful in eliminating colonialism but not in eliminating the oppression taking place in the colonized world. Today the oppression of French colonialism in Algeria has been replaced by the violence of the civil war in Algeria, and the dictator of Algeria who has annulled popular elections, a the emergence of radical Islam which seeks to replace colonial repression with religious oppression. But this violence might be one of the ...
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