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    Australian assimilation policies of the 1930s. The following statement‚ "The assimilation policies of the 1930s had a devastating effect on the Indigenous community‚ which is still being felt today. While promoted as protection for the Aboriginal children‚ the policy actually aimed at wiping out the Aboriginal race"‚ is incorrect and unsupported. It was not the actual assimilation policies that caused the devastating effects on the Aboriginal communities but the influence of the White Settlers

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    The 1930s was filled with many interesting and knowledgeable events that marks our history that we see we see it today. Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs became the biggest grossing film in the 1930s. Franklin D. Roosevelt passed the Fair Labor Standards Act that raises the minimum wage from 25 cents to 40 cents an hour and limits the work week to 44 hours. A New York Scientist predicts that the United States will reach the moon by 2050. At the end of the decade the United States entered the Second

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    African American Segregation in the 1930s During the 1930s African Americans faced segregation and discrimination in nearly every area of their lives. In addition to the poverty that the rest of the country also faced‚ the colored people had to follow strict rules‚ and were not treated well. We can see some examples of the discrimination in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. In addition‚ we can also see that there is still a lot of segregation in America today. Racial Discrimination is a huge

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    Reconfiguring the Turkish Nation in the 1930s* SONER ÇAGAPTAY** This article studies Turkish nationalism during the 1930s. In this decade of Kemalism par excellence or High Kemalism‚ the rise of ethnicist nationalism in Turkey was accompanied by the ascent of the “Turkish History Thesis.” The article presents an analysis of Turkish nationalism in this era through Ankara’s population resettlement policies. Consequently‚ it examines Turkish nationalism in the 1930s through the interaction between the

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    There were many major proponents of economic justice in the 1930s. During the mid-1930s‚ the assembly of millions of workers in mass-production industries had succeeded in resisting unionization. What came as a great surprise to many Americans was the way the federal government now seemed to be on the side of labor. The National Industrial Recovery Act and the Wagner Act granted worker’s the legal right to form unions. However‚ American factories at the beginning of the New Deal were small dictatorships

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    The Results of an era of Discrimination "Discrimination is a disease." This is a greatly popular quote straight from the mouth of Robert Staunbach. Many people consider the 1930s to be a terrible time of prejudice‚ especially to some violent extremes. Between racism‚ sexism‚ and social prejudice‚ discrimination levels were about the highest America has ever seen. This was a difficult time for African Americans in the U.S‚ and despite the decline of organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan‚ racism

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    America’s change through the 20’s‚ 30’s‚ and 40’s Throughout history the United States has seen so many drastic changes. These changes have been seen in many of the decades like the 1920’s1930s ‚and 1940’s. Through these years the United States has seen drastic changes in policies for things such war‚ economy‚ and social views and in the political field. These decades were some of the most important years of American history. They showed American power‚ will‚ and strength. Through the the Roaring

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    American economy and its culture changed dramatically during the 1920’s and 1930s due to many factors‚ including the Great Depression. The Depression itself‚ among other elements such as consumerism‚ national debt overload and the 1930 Banking Crisis all played an invaluable part in the change and sheds light on how America’s economy is run today. The first of these changes after the Depression was the New Deal. In the 1920’s‚ American banks were privately run‚ with the money from their clients

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    reveal/display that World war 2 did not truly advance women’s rights. Women gained more job positions‚ but they were temporary. They received a lower pay‚ and equal pay wasn’t solved until far after ww2. World war one was more influential‚ as well as the 20’s‚ 30’s and post ww2. Before world war 2‚ women were seen as stay at home mothers/housewives (2). The increasing need for women in the military force as a result of men leaving for war‚ created jobs that implements the role of women into

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    a beginning of change in the role of the federal government. Most of his new ideas aimed at creating new jobs almost always require the assistance of government fundings. Because of this‚ the government started spending more and more money in the 1930s than it was recieving‚ this which as a reprocution ended uo creating a huge deficit. Some people during this period‚ believed that the government was now pushing its powers way too far‚ disreguarding what the Federal Government has done and started

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