1) Summarize the key features of the 1924 Dawes and Young Plans. In 1924, France agreed to a plan by Charles G. Dawes, an American banker. The plan was named Dawes Plan, and its clauses were that there was to be a two-year freeze on the payment of reparations and that the level of German payments was to be scaled down. The USA offered huge loans to Germany, and France then agreed to take their troops out of the Ruhr. Germany was receiving more than what they were paying, the plan was initially a
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Analysis of Great Gatsby novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald Introduction The Great Gatsby is may be the F. Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest novel. This novel offers damning and insightful views of the American nouveau riche in the 1920s. It is an American classic and a wonderfully evocative novel (Bloom, 2010). The author seems to have a brilliant understanding of lives that are characterised by greed and incredibly sad and unfulfilled. The Great Gatsby is at once a romantic and cyclical
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Max Webber Max Weber eldest of the seven children was not only a German sociologist but also one of the three main "fathers of sociology," he contributed to our understanding of the sociological perspective, of social change and social inequality. Also played roles as a philosopher, and political economist. Max Weber was born on 21st of April 1864. His early life was mainly to do with education by being apart of 2 universities in the space of 2 years starting from 1882 where he first studied
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important hard facts and cold reason -Gives people certainty -Changes peoples ideas (New Physics) -“Matter is made up of solid particles called atoms” -Discovered radion – radiation – Eurys -It came from within the atoms -Max Planck – understands the atom deeply -Heat causes energy -Its not steady, its given off in packets called quanta -Einstein – Thermodynamics – space and time are absolute – they are relative to the observer -The 1920s is called the “Heroic Age of Physics” -Towards a new understanding
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rapid industrialization transformed the United States. A national rail system was completed; agriculture was mechanized; the factory system spread; and cities grew rapidly in size and number. The progressive movement arose as a response to the vast changes brought about by industrialization. Two major turning points during this period was reform at the state level and of course the national level. At the state level, reformers turned to state politics, where progressivism reached its fullest expression
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Progressive Era through the Great Depression History 105 The Progressive Era Around the 1910’s, most Americans were anxious about the rapid economic and social changes that confronted the United States, including industrialization, the rise of powerful corporations, the growth of cities and the mass arrivals of immigrants. This period was known as the Progressive Era. Two major historical turning points that took place during this time
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States Review: The Third Generation: Reflections on Recent Chicano Historiography Author(s): David G. Gutiérrez Source: Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer, 1989), pp. 281-296 Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Stable URL: http://www
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the economic history of the United States. During this time, the economy, in the United States, hurt the general welfare of citizens. The result of the Great Depression was the New Deal. This New Deal shaped an essential and deep-seated change in the role and composition of the federal government in the United States. This caused the federal government to take a much larger role in supporting general welfare programs, but the states would retain some control in the management of these programs
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Social Security Administration History In the late 1920’s when elders reached an age where they were no longer or able to work, families would take on the responsibilities of taking care of the elders or sending them to a poor house. In August 1935 the Social Security Act was sign by Franklin D. Roosevelt, which originally started as a retirement program, which only paid benefits to the primary worker of the family at the age of 65 (SSA. 2015). The Social Security Administration was originally
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Labor Unions in the United States Posted Mon, 2010-02-01 17:21 by Anonymous Gerald Friedman, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Unions and Collective Action In capitalist labor markets, which developed in the nineteenth-century in the United States and Western Europe, workers exchange their time and effort for wages. But even while laboring under the supervision of others, wage earners have never been slaves, because they have recourse from abuse. They can quit to seek better employment
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