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    industrial strategies and the concern of the economic impacts just as it was treated during the 1930s-1950s across Europe. During the 1930’s it was found that temperatures were increasing since the early 19th-century as well as the shrinkage of Artic ice. Guy Stewart Callendar‚ a power plant engineer‚ found the first evidence of increasing carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. He believed that mankind was responsible for carbon dioxide emissions raising global temperature. He continued to observe

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    By the end of the 1960s women had limited rights. By: Megan Hong Word Count (essay only):1‚489 By the end of the 1960s women rights were still limited but many long term issues were dealt with. It was most notably the time of the American Women’s Rights Movement and although many rights were legislated‚ it took decades for it to be enacted. Iconic feminism figures spoke and acted upon behalf of all the women‚ pin-pointing the rights they truly deserve. Women still greatly lacked the

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    Literature in the 1960s Literature. Works of amazing writing with lasting caliber and quality. Throughout history‚ literature of all kinds has had a big impact on what happened in history.Novels‚ influence the way we think about the world. Newspapers‚ inform us on what’s going on all around us. Ads‚ essays‚ articles‚ and more are a big part of our lives‚ without us ever even noticing them. They show up in places we look for entertainment‚ or become the entertainment itself. They notify us on what

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    Churchill’s attitude to Communism What does this source tell us about Churchill’s attitude to Communism? Source A – Speech by Churchill to the United Wards Club luncheon at the Canon Street Hotel in London‚ 4 November 1920 According to Mr. H.G. Wells who has just returned from Russia‚ the whole apparatus of civilization in Russia has collapsed. Cities are dying‚ and dying fast: railways are breaking up: manufactures and commerce of all kinds are at a standstill. Mr. Wells suggests that

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    War Communism and the NEP By Lauri Vauhkonen 11MEP War Communism • Introduced in 1921 by Lenin and Trotsky as a policy and a plan to support the Bolshevik war effort during the civil war. • The idea behind War communism was to gather and take the food and other resources from the farmlands and factories in order to give the Red army as much support as possible. • The idea in the view of the Bolsheviks was a success as it gave their soldiers the much needed support and help to win the civil war

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    Australian Government respond to the threat of communism both at home and overseas?” With the conclusion of World War II in 1945‚ the world was left divided between two different political beliefs of the communist Soviet Union and the capitalist and democratic United States. The rivalry between these two superpowers‚ known as the Cold War‚ threatened Australia’s peace & security‚ therefore the Australian Government was forced to respond to the threat of communism both at home & off its shores. The Australian

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    Dwight Nichols Ms. Scannell Honors English III April 10‚ 2017 Communism in Animal Farm Communism is a political theory derived from Karl Marx‚ advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. George Orwell was a fierce critic of this political theory being used by states as a primary system of government. When Orwell wrote Animal Farm‚ he looked back on events that led up to the Russian

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    When you think of Communism‚ what country is the first to pop into your head? When I asked myself this‚ I immediately thought of The Soviet Union‚ however‚ this is not the only state that has under gone this transition of power. Many states governments that have undergone the communist regime have failed‚ however‚ there is a state that is still considered communist today‚ China. Thus‚ the question I am going to ask is how does communism differ in China today and the former Soviet Union through structure

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    on Communism; he wanted to let the world know the extreme numbers of people that were accusing each other of being Communist in the later part of the 1950’s. However‚ Miller was aware that if he wrote directly on Communism it would not be published‚ due to people’s views on the subject‚ therefore he chose another event which had many parallels‚ for example‚ the extremity of accusations. This led him to write his views based upon the events of the Salem witch trials. McCarthyism was the fear of communism

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    During the early-mid 19th century‚ many reform movements took place throughout the world‚ specifically in the United States. The main types of reform movements that took place were social‚ institutional‚ religious and abolitionist reforms. Many systems went through reformations‚ most of them putting emphasis on the idea of democracy. Social reforms such as a push for utopian societies tried to push values and morals on the dysfunctional American society‚ looking to make it a more democratic one

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