... equated with the manner in which propaganda was utilized in all three systems. Architectural power was utilized as a form of propaganda by which "charismatic leadership, circumventing intermediary social and political institutions like parliaments, parties, and interest groups, gains direct hold upon the masses". In the United States head of the National Recovery Administration, Hugh ... Great Depression, did not imprison people for their political beliefs and widened the influence of underprivileged elements in society. He also notes that the historical experience (especially after Word...

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... when thousands of unemployed veterans came to Washington to lobby for immediate payment of a bonus for wartime services, only to be routed out by the U.S. Army and a government fearing social unrest. (Himmelberg, 10) Many Americans who lost jobs and property, in accordance with the deeply engrained belief that individual effort determined personal success in life, seemed to have blamed ... decade, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, Hoover believed in using government actively to solve, and to encourage the various economic organizations and groups to solve, the country's endemic economi...

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... also. Vargas eventually brings stability to the country, but at a price to the people. "Vargas also stands out as the mentor of Brazilian industrialization and of the corporatist social structure that characterizes Brazil even today."" In 1945, the politics of the country began to change with what is considered the beginning of The Populist Republic era. The Populist ... vigorous and the government cuts waste, corruption and unnecessary bureaucracy."" The Cardoso regime, even though is fundamentally Marxist, understands it must win the peoples trust with some sort of social machinery. T...

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... worse, some settlers started to leave the land. In 1935 R.B. Bennett and his government introduced the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation to help out people who were experiencing tremendous hardship. The social impact of the Great Depression on the Prairies had psychological implications. There was frustration for those who stayed and for those who abandoned their farms. Since there was not enough ... they had fixed salaries and lived comfortably. The teachers and the ministers were two groups of people who really found the Great Depression a struggle: People who really affected from social effe...

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... their familys well-being as well as boosting consumer demand. From 1935 to 1943 over 8 million people were employed by the program to build roads, buildings, and parks. The 1935 Social Security Act was then introduced to set up a worker funded but federally guaranteed pension system. It provided a safety net for aging workers while promoting increased consumer demand. Though these programs ... as part of the government response to cure the Great Depression had their highs and low it would take World War II to end the depression. Social Security, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...

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