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    The Dustbowl of America in the 1930’s The Dust Bowl of North America was a disaster in the early 1930’s when huge parts of the Midwestern and Western farmlands of America became wastelands. This happened due to a series of dry years‚ which agreed‚ with the extension of agriculture in unsuitable lands. Droughts and dust storms caused by poor labor practice troubled farms and ranches of the Great Plains; causing a great migration of its people to other‚ more fertile‚ lands. The problem had become

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    Communism In Film

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    skin tones and cultures‚ they were all Soviets. In turn‚ this promotion of racial equality also paints the Soviet Union as superior to their American counterparts‚ as the American Marion Dixon is able to find acceptance for her and her child not in America‚ but in her new adopted

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    ISLAM and COMMUNISM by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz 2009 Muhammad Ibn ’Abd El-Krim El-Khattabi‚ leader of the Rif Berbers www.islamicpluralism.eu 2009 C IP Centre for Islamic Pluralism ISLAM AND COMMUNISM IN THE 20th CENTURY An Historical Survey by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz Center for Islamic Pluralism Washington * London * Köln * Sarajevo www.islamicpluralism.org www.islamicpluralism.eu www.islamicpluralism.de 1718 M Street NW #260 Washington‚ DC 20036 USA and BM

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    In the 1930’s during the Great Depression‚ many people turned to Communism to answer the problems that Capitalism seem unable to solve. Although the Great Depression affected each class negatively‚ the middle/lower class seemed to be hit the hardest because of stock market crash combined with the dust bowl movement. At the time of the Great Depression‚ creating an equal class really sounded like a good idea because of its sympathy towards the working class rather than

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    There were many fears of the Cold War that the American people feared in the aftermath of the Second World War‚ which is stated in Document A. The American people feared the Soviet for two reasons. One reason was why the American people feared the Soviet was because the Soviet had nuclear bombs. The other reason was that the Soviet was the first to put up an orbiting satellite‚ which was Sputnik. However‚ as in stated in Document B‚ the American people greatest fear was communism. Because China turned

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    Throughout the Industrial Revolution‚ communism was another significant and influential theories based on the social changes that guided the development of this theory. Karl Marx was a German philosopher and one of the founding fathers of the establishment of communism. Within his time‚ he developed a book called “The Communist Manifesto” in 1878 which allowed people to have a better understanding of the formation of the communism form and how it was ultimately structured. Marx helped to motivate

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    Fall Of Communism

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    what communism is at its most basic level. Simply put‚ communism is the idea that everyone in a given society receives equal shares of the benefits derived from labor. Communism is designed to allow the poor to rise up and attain financial and social status equal to that of the middle-class landowners. In order for everyone to achieve equality‚ wealth is redistributed so that the members of the upper class are brought down to the same financial and social level as the middle class. Communism also

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    As we look back in modern American history‚ there are three sizable reform periods from 1890 through the 1960s. These three periods were The Progressive Period‚ 1890 to 1914‚ The New Deal‚ 1933 to 1938‚ and The Great Society‚ 1964 to 1968. The ultimate goal of these reform periods was to improve the United States Economically‚ Socially‚ and Politically. The Progressive Period helped the nation economically by dislodging the monopolies that provided utilities to the urban areas. This formulated

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    Balcha Candidate Number: 00751-018 Communism in Ethiopia 1974-1987 Research Question: To what extent was the Ethiopian Derg Regime a communist regime? WORD COUNT: 3‚983 Abstract This extended essay deals with the research question: To what extent was the Ethiopian Derg Regime a Communist Regime following Marxist-Leninist ideology? It looks at the Derg Regime and its formation during the Ethiopian Revolution of 1974. It undertakes

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    The Threat of Communism

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    Communism (from Latin communis - common‚ universal) is a revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless‚ moneyless‚ and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production‚ as well as a social‚ political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this social order.[1] This movement‚ in its Marxist–Leninist interpretations‚ significantly influenced the history of the 20th century‚ which saw intense rivalry between the "socialist world" (socialist

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