Chapter 30 Notes THE TWENTIETH CENTURY MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE Significant numbers of people moved – willingly or not – in and out of various parts of Europe in the 20th century. Europeans moved from the country to the city; the Nazis and the Soviets displaced millions of people‚ re-settling some and killing others; post-war border changes and policies pushed and pulled local minorities and entire nations around the map of Europe. Millions of Europeans emigrated‚ while European colonials returned
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FUNDAMENTALISM AND ITS RISE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. What is Fundamentalism? The most common association those with no base knowledge of the term make is with Islam‚ the word being linked to the faith with great popularity in the first decade of the twenty first century. Despite this point many faiths‚ apart from Islam‚ like the Christian‚ Jewish‚ Buddhist‚ and Hindu have those within their respective memberships who can be classed as fundamentalists. Fundamentalists are staunch believers and
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focused on women’s right to vote. The Equal Right Amendment was introduced since 1920s but did not pass in the Congress until early 1970s. Most feminist in early twentieth century did not gave up on their thoughts‚ but them did not have a centralized views or issue. The movement was then lost its influence. The remained feminist dedicated to from an Equal Right Amendment to stop politicians and employers from passing laws that only apply to one gender. In the early twentieth century‚ women received
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In the early twentieth century Canada’s economy was strongly tied to farming and natural resources such as wheat‚ fish‚ minerals and pulp and paper. Most of these goods were exported to other countries‚ and as long as the world demand was high‚ Canada prospered. As the future would show‚ however‚ the economy’s dependence on such a narrow range of goods was very risky. In the late 1920’s several other countries‚ such as Australia and Argentina‚ greatly increased their wheat production and
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Alfred Kinsey In the early twentieth century a time a time where sex was an unspeakable subject‚ when adolescents were taught that masturbation was not only a sin ‚but could cause blindness or hairy palms‚ along came Alfred Kinsey‚ who first started as a biologist studying gall wasps‚ and suddenly turned his interest from insects to people‚ disturbed by the lack of scientific knowledge concerning human sexuality he released a series of books called sexual behavior in the human male‚ next to human
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Name Mr. McCann Honors World History 22 March 2014 Genocides of the Twentieth Century Genocide is defined in Article 2 of the Convention of the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide (1948) as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy‚ in a whole or in part‚ a national‚ ethnical‚ racial‚ or religious group; as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring
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first decade of the twentieth century‚ a few years after the bitter Anglo-Boer War and before my own birth‚ the white-skinned peoples of South Africa patched up their differences and erected a system of racial domination against dark-skinned peoples of their own land. The structure they created formed the basis of one of the harshest‚ most inhumane societies the world has ever known. Now‚ in the last decade of the twentieth century‚ and my own eighth decade as a man‚ that system had been overturned forever
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Has ICT had a greater impact than steam power? ICT and steam power are both General Purpose Technologies (GPTs); technologies which are pervasive‚ has multiple complementarities and a wide range of productivity effects which affects an entire economy. There are three main groups of beneficiaries: firms‚ workers and customers. The first steam engine was invented in the 1769 however there was a lag from when it was produced to when it was widely used. This was because the steam engine was initially
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in Anthropology has been an entity in a constant metamorphosis. It has always been considered exotic and its existence around the globe was never contradicted. However‚ over the years it did not receive the scholarly attention that it so requires. The age of discovery garnered a multitude of information on shamanism all over the world. The reporters invested a great deal of accuracy in the gathering of the information‚ but their observational skills were mostly underdeveloped. Furthermore as
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However‚ some causes were far more effective than others. The economic turmoil Germany was under post-stock market crash‚ and the governmental instability that Germany had following World War I were the most potent causes for Germany’s fall to the Nazi party in the early twentieth century. The economy of Germany was greatly harmed by the stock market crash which had also propelled the great depression within America. Gurnit Kaur says‚ “The crash left over thirty percent of the German workforce out
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