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- 651: The United States' Rise To A World Power After 1930
- ... the world's goods. Roosevelt's welfare capitalism remained intact and America turned its attention to more pleasant things than following the war. The demobilization could have caused huge problems but that was prevented by employment, the Social Security Act and the new benefits given to war veterans (among other things the chance to earn a collage degree). During the war, people had saved their money. This was partly because wages ...
- 652: The New Deal
- ... in political affiliations. In the Midwestern farm belt, which had been Republican for a long time, now switched to Roosevelt, because of his agricultural programs. Urban voters followed the same pattern, but because of increased employment and benefits. Blacks also switched to Democrats when in 1934 they elected a Democrat in place of a popular republican congressman. They switched mainly because of relief programs aimed at getting them their jobs back ...
- 653: The Industrial Revolution
- ... Revolution. This created unquestioning obedience to the employers of the industries. Prior to the Reform Act of 1832 a working class with no hope of education, political rights or a voice in the condition of employment due to the bourgeoisie and Parliament. Preceding the Reform Act of 1832 many things started to happen that lead to the gradual improvement of life for the working classes. As more and more laws were ...
- 654: The Civil Rights Movement
- ... result of the March, President Kennedy proposed a new civil rights law. Following his assassination , Lyndon Johnson saw to the bill's passage. The bill prohibited segregation in public accommodations and discrimination in education and employment. It also gave the executive branch the power to enforce the act's provisions. Later in 1968 President Johnson got a bill passed that ended discrimination in housing. After the passage of the Voting Rights ...
- 655: The Fall of South Vietnam Controversy
- ... Nixon would have spared much opposition and grief if Johnson had asked Congress for a declaration of war. As a result of many different considerations, then, the nation fought a limited war, with the full employment of its military power restricted through elaborate rules of engagement and limitations on operations beyond the borders of South Vietnam, while for its determined opponent the war was total (Fulghum and Maitland 111). The U ...
- 656: The Assassination of John F Kennedy
- ... accused Hunt of complicity in Kennedy's death, and Hunt has given conflicting accounts of where he was on the day of the shooting. Also several of the people who were hired or considered for employment by the Nixon White House during Watergate had been connected with the Warren Commission. Was this just a coincidence? In addition, some of the operatives and Cuban exiles who were involved in the Bay of ...
- 657: The New Deal
- ... started to buy items and use the banks. People spent the money they earned and started to improve the economy and Stock Market. The act did a good job by helping out the community, giving employment to the unemployed keeping the economy from falling apart. During the ten to twelve years when the economy was bad, these acts helped to keep the economy moving. Even though the Stock Market didn’t ...
- 658: The New Deal
- ... started to buy items and use the banks. People spent the money they earned and started to improve the economy and Stock Market. The act did a good job by helping out the community, giving employment to the unemployed keeping the economy from falling apart. During the ten to twelve years when the economy was bad, these acts helped to keep the economy moving. Even though the Stock Market didn't ...
- 659: The Great Depression
- ... National Industrial Recovery Act and the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) which were under the assumption that the cause of the depression was overproduction. The National Recovery Administration (NRA) was created to enforce codes for production, employment, and wages in industries. These codes were written by businessmen in the industry. Farmers were overproducing, and not getting enough money, therefore, the FDR Administration paid farmers to not grow foods, helping the prices go ...
- 660: Cuba, Castro, and the United States
- ... The new American policy, not announced as such, but implicit in the the actions of the United States government was one of overthrowing Castro by all means available to the U.S. short of open employment of American armed forces in Cuba. It was at this time that the controversial decision was taken to allow the CIA to begin recruiting and training of ex-Cuban exiles for anti-Castro military service ...
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