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The document discusses the economic and social impact of World War 2 on the United States. It notes that the US emerged from the war as the world's dominant economic and military power. During the war, the US rapidly mobilized its industrial might and workforce to support the war effort. Millions of Americans worked in factories producing vast numbers of weapons, ships, and equipment to overwhelm Axis production. Women and migrants played a large role in the industrial workforce during this period. After the war, the US economy experienced strong growth and prosperity as consumers spent savings and the GIs returned home.
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The document discusses Truman's Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine, which provided economic and military aid to countries in Europe recovering from World War 2. It explores the differing perspectives on whether this aid was a generous gesture to help allies recover, or an underhanded attempt to undermine the Soviet Union and prevent the spread of communism for strategic political reasons. The document contains speeches, propaganda, and viewpoints from both American and Soviet/communist perspectives on the intentions and impact of the Marshall Plan.
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After World War 2 ended, Singapore faced many post-war problems under the British Military Administration (BMA) who took over governing. There were shortages of food, housing, and other basic necessities due to the destruction of infrastructure during Japanese occupation. Unemployment was also high as jobs with the Japanese disappeared. The BMA implemented measures like food rationing, building public housing and opening schools to help alleviate issues, but overcrowding and food shortages persisted into the 1950s, fueling discontent with British rule.
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2) Despite contributions to the war effort, racial minorities like Japanese Americans and African Americans still faced discrimination and unequal treatment. Japanese Americans were interned in camps and black Americans encountered segregation and racism even as they fought for freedom abroad.
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For those Americans living in urban areas and working in the thriving industries, the 1920s economy delivered unprecedented prosperity. Wages were rising steadily to keep up with inflation. More Americans than ever could afford new mass-produced consumer goods like automobiles, radios and household appliances due to installment plans that allowed purchasing on credit. Leisure time increased as the work week was reduced. Entertainment options
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During World War 1, the U.S. government took unprecedented steps to mobilize resources and public support for the war effort. This included establishing new government agencies to oversee war production, food and fuel rationing, propaganda campaigns, and censorship of anti-war speech. It also led to economic growth and social changes like the migration of black workers to industrial jobs in the North. However, these wartime measures also undermined civil liberties and led to a post-war "Red Scare" targeting radical groups.
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During World War 1, the U.S. government took unprecedented steps to mobilize resources and public support for the war effort. This included establishing new government agencies to oversee war production, food and fuel rationing, propaganda campaigns, and censorship of anti-war speech. It also led to economic growth and social changes like the migration of black workers to industrial jobs in the North. However, these wartime measures also undermined civil liberties and led to a post-war "Red Scare" targeting radical groups.
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The document discusses the decline of US global dominance over the past 50 years. It argues that the US is no longer the world's leading economic, political, or social power and is no longer viewed as a model by other countries. The long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have damaged America's image and role in the world. Going forward, the US faces significant challenges in maintaining its global position and influence.
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Directions: Your task is to search the internet for two political cartoons that represent the years of the Great Depression and the New Deal. Once you have selected your two cartoons, copy and paste them into your Word document for this assignment. Please remember that you must cite your source for where you found each cartoon.
Guidelines:
1. Cartoon 1: This political cartoon must be from the 1930s. It should address one or more of the following topics: Difficulty of farmers, Stock market crash, Bank failures, Consumer over-borrowing, Businesses closing.
2. Cartoon 2: This political cartoon must be from the 1940s. It should address one or more of the following topics: Franklin Roosevelt, the New Deal, “Relief, Recovery, Reform,” any of the New Deal programs such as the CCC, TVA, PWA, etc., Court-packing scheme.
Questions to answer:
For each cartoon, you will construct a 300-400 word essay in which you analyze the meaning of the political cartoon. You should address these questions within the context of your essay:
1. Who are the objects and people in the cartoon?
2. Which of the objects are symbols and what do these symbols mean?
3. What is the meaning behind the words and phrases used in the cartoon?
4. What action is taking place in the cartoon?
5. How would you explain the message in the cartoon in your own words?
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Radio was a major source of news and entertainment during the 1920’s. By 1925, over 2.5 million Americans owned and listed to radios.
Your task for this assignment is to construct a radio news program that details some of the important events of the 1920’s. Your show will be called “Lifestyle of the Roaring ‘20’s.”
You will serve as the host and you will interview a guest of your choice (someone from the time period) and they will answer a series of questions on the following topics (a minimum of 4):
· The impact of the Automobile
· Prohibition
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· Flappers
· Education
· Sports
· Entertainment
· And the Harlem Renaissance
This assignment can be submitted in transcript form or can actually be performed and recorded.
If you would like to record this as an “actual” radio show, please follow the directions below
1. Go to http://vocaroo.com/
2. Make your recording
3. Save the link
4. Submit into the text box
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Throughout this lesson you learned about the way FDR and the New Deal tried to help the nation through the Great Depression. In this assignment you are going to use the notes and information you learned to help you complete this assignment. There are two parts to this assignment. Make sure you do both.
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1) As Americans moved west, they came into conflict with Native Americans over land usage, leading Congress to pass the Indian Removal Act in 1830 to isolate Native Americans on reservations.
2) In less than 70 years, the U.S. more than tripled in size through war, purchase, and treaties, acquiring large swaths of new territory including parts that used to belong to Mexico and France.
3) During this period of expansion, inventions like railroads and technologies like steam power aided transportation and industrialization, while policies like the Homestead Act encouraged west
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2) In less than 70 years, the U.S. more than tripled in size by acquiring new territory through war and purchasing power. This included taking territory from Mexico in the 1840s.
3) The Homestead Act of 1862 offered settlers 160 acres of free land, leading thousands to enter races for the best
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Trouble at home and abroad
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1HIST The Economic Impact of Civil WarRichmond.docx
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· Civil War’s economic impact has been a point of much debate. Historians have traditionally seen the war as a major economic “watershed,” which served as a “take-off point” for America’s final transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation. Later, a new group of historians argued that Civil War actually slowed down the economic growth and America’s transformation.
· So, again: one group says Civil War created a surge in economic growth and industrialization, while the other group says the opposite, arguing that Civil War interrupted long term economic trends and actually impeded industrialization.
· So, who is right? Let’s study both schools of thought, starting with the people who argued for Civil War’s economic boost-effect:
1. Beard-Hacker thesis
· Historians Charles and Mary Beard, in their Rise of American Civilization (1927), called Civil War “the Second American Revolution,” a “social war” which rearranged “classes and...the accumulation and distribution of wealth.” It was “a social cataclysm in which the capitalists, laborers, and farmers of the North and West drove from power in the national government the planting aristocracy of the South.”
· According to the Beards, war marked the dividing line between agricultural and industrial eras in American history. In essence, Civil War was the struggle of classes and economic systems; it was a sectional dispute only by the “accidents of climate, soil, and geography.”
· The Beards were later supported and supplemented by Louis Hacker, who in his book Triumph of American Capitalism (1940), said that Civil War gave the industrial-capitalist class “the instrumentalities of political power,” which the capitalists used to pass legislation, which enabled “the triumph of American capitalism.”
· Proof for Beard-Hacker include largely the war’s short-term and direct effects, such as:
a) Demand for war materials, such as guns other weapons, uniforms, saddles, wagons, et cetera.
b) The need to mechanize grows, as factories have hard time finding man power (draft), while the demand for war materials simultaneously grows substantially.
c) The war triggers a need to use labor force more efficiently: women, free African Americans and immigrants move into the mines, fields, and factories.
d) Income gets redistributed into the hands of rising capitalist class. During the war, U.S. suffered from substantial inflation (70 percent between 1860-1864), as the government largely funded the war with deficit spending and printing more money. This transferred income from workers to those who could raise prices rapidly: entrepreneurs, capitalists, manufacturers, etc. This gives them a larger slice of the pie and helped to finance the postwar economic expansion. Many of the later industrial giants (Andrew Carnegie, Philip Armour, Clement Studebaker, John D. Rockefeller, etc.) partook in the industrial a ...
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