The Great Depression was a massive economic collapse. The primary cause was citizens taking out too much cash from the bank causing the banks to fall behind and lose to much money. Then banks began to close and now citizens couldn’t pay off debts‚ their bills and their taxes. Companies couldn’t pay their employees resulting in unemployment rates to rise rapidly until over one fifth of the U.S. citizens in the labor force were unemployed. Farmers ended up overproduced goods which caused the overall
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new kind capitalism would sprout. Cotton manufacturing on a small scale was astonishingly profitable in 1780s and 1790s. As demand for raw cotton rose‚ so too did prices. In 1781‚ prices for cotton in Britain were two and three higher than they had a decade earlier. The emerging cotton complex centered in Europe was also unique because it did not draw on the production of nearby peasants for its raw materials. Most of the cotton grown for manufacturing purposes around the world was produced by small
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Did blitzkrieg only work because the polish were unprepared‚ the answer is no. blitzkrieg was just a very modern war method‚ combined with the Wehrmacht‚ made this extremely efficient to all their successes during World War 2. Although the polis did put up a fight they were out matched against the numbers of the German army. The poles had 600 tanks to defend against a staggering
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During Adolf Hitler’s reign over the Third Reich‚ a propaganda machine dominated Germany. The Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda‚ Joseph Goebbels‚ infused Nazism into all areas of German life‚ by corrupting‚ media‚ culture‚ and education. The radio allowed Nazi propaganda to be heard not only in Germany but around the world. The purpose of Nazi propaganda goal to persuade the people to take the prejudice towards Jews based on Christian beliefs that were typical for over 1500 years to
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work in the middle of the night‚ specifically three o’clock on March 13‚ 1964 (Worthen). She did this quite often‚ so she did not expect Winston Moseley to be waiting for her with a knife in hand. As she made her way to her apartment in Kew Gardens‚ Moseley followed her and attacked her for the first time. She screamed out in horror and a neighbor yelled down in attempt to scare the attacker off; it did not work (Gansberg; Worthen). Although he backed off‚ he knew nobody was calling the police and
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Aim Did the Treaty of Versailles Accomplish in Providing Peace? The main goal of the Treaty of Versailles was to keep peace. Georges Clemenceau from France was part of the Big 3 and he utterly despised Germany. He believed that if Germany was weakened and broken down into little pieces they could never start another war or threaten France again. He mainly wanted Germany to be severely punished and they were. A large section of the Treaty dealt with the punishment of Germany because many others
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Hindenburg‚ but why did he get this prestigious honour - why did Hitler become Chancellor? There are four main reasons as to why this happened‚ and they are as follows: the Weimar government ’s weaknesses; his own leadership skills and the Nazis tactics; the Great Depression; and political manoeuvring between von Schleicher and von Papen. It is to be shown‚ however‚ that it really down to the involvement of von Schleicher and von Papen that Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany‚ when he did. Firstly‚ Hitler
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Cortes was a Spanish conquistador who led the expedition to the Aztecs. He landed on the coast of Mexico in 1519 with an army of around 600 men‚ 16 horses and a few cannons. Cortes and his men made their way inland to the capital of the Aztecs‚ capturing cities and gaining extra soldiers from the people who were left after his men took over. He spoke to the natives through his translator Malinche‚ a young Indian woman. They made their way to Tenochtitlan‚ where Aztecs were conquering and sacrificing
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corruption. If the Gestapo suspected someone of disloyalty to the state‚ they were able to arrest‚ imprison‚ and interrogate the suspected person or people. They weren’t just there to imprison people that Hitler wanted them to. Prior to Himmler they did not abduct people.
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Not only did the Black Panthers show the black community to arm themselves but they gave the community hope and promise to overcome poverty and oppression‚ by showing the community a revolution (Bloom 391). When there was nothing but chaos and rage throughout the
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