During this session, congress passed numerous laws aimed at providing relief for victims of the Depression, speeding economic recovery, and reforming financial, business, agricultural, and industrial practices. ... One of the most important of all of the laws passed was the National Industrial Recovery Act of June 1933, which created the National Recovery Administration. The NIRA was an emergency measure with the purpose of encouraging industrial recovery and help to fight off widespread unemployment. ... However, many labor provisions of the NRA were reinstated in later legislations such as F...

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(National Industrial Recovery Act). ... Within this Act the N.R.A (Nation Recovery Administration) was set up. ... (Agricultural Adjustment Act). ... The reason why this Act had so much opposition was because farmers had started to put the prices of food up at a time when thousands of people were starving. ... Even though Roosevelt's New Deal had some success, it had a lot of opposition. ...

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Since America had continually been increasing it's industrial power, it had an enormous amount of capitol to invest as it saw fit. ... Even industrial workers, whose strikes for higher pay had availed them little in previous decades, benefited. From 1922-1929, the national income was up 40% from $60.7 billion to $87.2 billion, (Cronon 341). ... The depression was the worst in the history of the United States and proved to be a terrible price to pay for the false sense of prosperity and national well -being of the roaring Twenties. ... When Germany refused to pay all that was demanded, Fra...

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The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was the most innovative early New Deal measure. ... The National Recovery Administration approved and enforced a set of competitive codes for each industry to help ensure fair competition in each. ... The pressures for new legislation abated after 1937, and opposition to extending the New Deal mounted rapidly, especially in the South. By 1939 public attention focused increasingly on foreign policy and national defense. ... Dramas were acted out by small groups, in which each member played various characters. ...

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The New Deal got underway during the first 100 days of the Roosevelt administration and experienced both successes and failures; but those failures and a mounting opposition to New Deal policies and programs would deter the New Deal from moving forward. ... Among the high points were the Works Progress Act (WPA), the Social Security Act, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), farming and labor reform. ... " (Link 301) The first New Deal's National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was renewed in 1935 albeit with pressure by Roosevelt, but it was deemed unconstitutional shortl...

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On March 11, 1941 Congress passed the Lend-Lease act. ... Richardson of the Pacific Fleet was in full opposition to the long stay at Pearl Harbor. ... Richardson felt that the Japanese would realize the military disadvantages of being stationed at Pearl Harbor, and would be quick to act on the situation. ... Many of Japan's Navy General Staff was in opposition to Yamamoto's plan, but they continued to prepare for the attack. ... Recognizing this embargo as an act of war, Japan eventually responded with the surprise attack of Pearl Harbor. ...

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This concept basically states that there will be two levels of government, the national and the state. Federalism states that the national and state governments are separate entities and have formal authority over the same area and people. ... Washington put his newly acquired freedom to use when he started a black industrial school at Tuskegee, Alabama. ... Led by Carrie Chapman Catt, women suffragists formed the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in...

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Firstly, Adolf Hitler signed the Enabling Act of 1933 in March of that year. ... After he signed the Enabling Act of 1933, the National Socialist German Workers' Party rounded up communists, leftist individuals, and labour leaders. ... He liked his National Socialist State because of the quick legislative process it had (Brundage, 2012). ... Hitler did succeed in destroying democracy in Germany; in 1933 he was elected democratically but once he was given the power to rule by decree and suppressed all opposition, his government was no longer democratic. ... In early 1933 industrial produc...

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In the years leading up to 1868 members of the Satsuma and Choshu clans were part of the imperialist opposition. This opposition claimed that the only way that Japan could survive the encroachment of the foreigners was to rally around the Emperor.Footnote4 The Imperialists, claimed that the Tokugawa Shogunate had lost its imperial mandate to carry out the Imperial Will because it had capitulated to Western powers by allowing them to open up Japan to trade. ... It was both a mythic and religious idea in their minds.Footnote11 It provided the Japanese in this time of chaos afte...

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Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Three New Deals and John Garraty's New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression discusses America under president Franklin D. ... In the United States head of the National Recovery Administration, Hugh Johnson implemented the symbol of the Blue Eagle to pressure businesses into complying with the agency's code. ... Garraty compares the response to the Depression between the industrial nations most profoundly affected by the crisis: the United States and Germany from 1933 to 1937. He views the two Western industrial societies as fundamentally ...

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 formally abolished the Jim Crow system in public accommodations, employment, voting, education, and federally financed activities. ... " During the 1950s, the rhetoric of "law and order" gained steam when Southern governors tried to generate and mobilize white opposition to the Civil Rights movement. ... These same conservatives linked opposition to civil rights legislation to calls for law and order, even going so far as to make absurd claims such as Martin Luther King Jr.'... Unfortunately, at the same time, the FBI was reporting dramatic inc...

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