paradox in the impact of the factory on women: It opened many new jobs but lowered the levels of skills they needed to have. The industrial revolution and the great economic success it also had a large variety of victims. Women faced different demands during the industrial age to those that they face today. Women of the working classes would usually be expected to go out to work‚ often in the mills or mines. As with the children and men the hours were long and conditions were
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1. African slave labor was widely used in the Americas because even though they were expensive‚ they were better investments for plantation owners than Amerindians or indentured servants‚ the two other labor systems at this time. African slaves were immune to more diseases than the Amerindians‚ therefore they lived longer‚ which was a good investment. The English‚ French‚ and Dutch colonies in the Caribbean profited when they switched their laborers from indentured servants to African slaves. The
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resulted from the Cold War. Propaganda being the weapon of choice during the Cold war influenced Hollywood movies agencies to create anticommunist movies. This resulted in a repetitive series of movies that helped to ignite a spirit of patriotism. However‚ it also helped to raise suspicion of communist activity in America. The anticommunist sentiment grew extremely out of control and worked against Hollywood actors and actresses during the HUAC hearings against suspected communists in Hollywood. McCarthyism
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trials of Nazis involved in crimes committed during the Holocaust of World War II. The first‚ and most famous‚ began on November 20‚ 1945. It was entitled the Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal‚ which tried the most important leaders of Nazi Germany. The second set of trials‚ for lesser war criminals‚ was conducted under Control Council Law No. 10‚ at the U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunals. Several times during World War II‚ the Allies met to discuss the
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Feudalism can be depicted by the code of chivalry‚ the feudal pyramid‚ and the harshness of manor life. The idea of feudalism entirely changed the way of life for most of the population during the Middle Ages.
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and the Soviet block squared off in this divided city for more than 40 years. Seemingly in this short span of time‚ crisis followed crisis as both sides sought to neutralize the other. In the plethora of work available on the history of intelligence during this time‚ the actions of the KGB and CIA have been analyzed by specialists and debated over by experts and novices alike. But
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Numerous cultural progressions were made during the Middle Ages which kept going somewhere around 500AD and 1000AD. Society can be partitioned into five classifications such as‚ religion and philosphy‚ art and architecture‚ government‚ science‚ and literature and writing. During the middle ages‚ there was an extraordinary headway in religious philosophy and huge numbers of today’s finest colleges were manufactured‚ for example‚ the Oxford University and a few others in Paris and Rome. In the mid
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Attalla Louis U.S History Mr. Laurneck 2/25/15 Opinion Essay During the Great Depression there were many causes and effects which resulted in one of the greatest financial crises in U.S history. Many people who believed in the banking system had stored their money In a bank. Little they knew that the money which was supposed to be safe was being loaned to others. The attacks on America’s banks began immediately following the stock market crash of 1929. Quickly overnight‚ thousands
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War‚ in particular‚ persists largely‚ in part‚ due to fear. During the Cold War‚ the United States operated on a fear of communism spreading called the domino theory. In the minds of US leaders at the time‚ the emergence of communism in China and the Soviet Union would lead to its further spread in surrounding countries
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Karen Rusli Rusli 1 HIST 338 Dr. Bryan Lamkin 24 May 2013 California During the Great Depression The 1930s was not the best time period for California‚ the U.S.‚ or the world. When the stock market crashed in 1929 in the United States‚ it set off the most severe economic depression in the Western world. On top of all of that‚ a severe drought hit the Southern and Midwestern plains in 1931 just two years after the stock market crashed. This became known as the Dust Bowl. In the Dust Bowl‚ crops
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