time of turmoil‚ drama‚ hardships‚ and trials for most Americans‚ a time when jobs and homes they thought they could count on suddenly were gone. Getting food‚ clothing‚ and a bed became an everyday struggle for many. What caused the Great Depression of the United States and what effects did it have on the lives of the people? The Great Depression is one of the most misunderstood events in American History. The Great Depression‚ an awful‚ tragic event‚ was a time when so many people were out
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I believe that throughout the Colonial period‚ economic concerns had more to do with the settling of British North America than did religious reasons. First‚ according to my textbook‚ the British originally sponsored trips over to the New World only after other countries were profiting from their collections of goods and new trade ports. Maybe other countries in Europe had begun settling the New World for religious concerns‚ but definitely not Britain. The British government was more concerned
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Evaluation of culture background of Germany‚ Japan‚ and Ireland through Hofstede Cultural Dimension As professor Geert Hofstede put‚ "Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster." Therefore‚ understanding different cultures in different countries is a significant issue for multinational enterprises‚ especially for the inevitable trend of globalization. As our project aims at analyzing the international expansion of
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Document 1 What did Hitler suggest was needed for Germany? Hitler thought Germany needed to take back the territories that were lost as part of the reparations of WWI. He thought the land was still theirs and they should take it back. How would that lead to war? Hitler wanted to take the lost territories by force‚ so that would easily lead to war. He said protests weren’t enough and they needed to fight which was implied by “a mighty sword” being necessary. Document 2 According to Haile Selassie
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years‚ leaving over one-half million deaths‚ destruction‚ and great sectional hatred‚ has affected our country till today. The great question is what caused the southern states to secede? If slavery truly was the culprit behind this‚ if it was to what extent was it? Was the person leading our country at the time in fault for southern secession? If any what were other factors? All of these questions are still debated today. Southern believed that slaves were their property‚ and that they had the
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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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Explain why Great Britain followed a policy of appeasement toward Germany in the 1930s? The appeasement policy‚ which can be defined as a diplomatic policy that hopes of preventing war by making concessions to an aggressor‚ was displayed by Great Britain towards Germany in the preface to World War II. However‚ it proved to be a spectacular failure‚ because leaders of the countries that were being appeased were taking advantages of these policies and were building up their own power since other
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Australian assimilation policies of the 1930 ’s. The following statement‚ "The assimilation policies of the 1930 ’s 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 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 1930’s 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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How totalitarian were Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany? Giovanni Amendola first coined the word ‘totalitarian’ when describing the Italian Fascist government under Benito Mussolini in 1923 as different to conventional dictatorships. It is after this that the word was popularised to have both negative and positive connotations. However‚ German theorist Carl Friedrich and political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski collaborated to formulate a modern day politically scientific definition known as the
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