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| Senator. Long created the Share Our Wealth program in 1934 with the motto "Every Man a King", proposing new wealth redistribution measures in the form of a net asset tax |
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| Novelists, poets, painters, and playwrights of the 1930s did not need to be Marxists to create works that dealt with the problems of the Great Depression or the dangers of fascism. |
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| Farm Security Administration |
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| The FSA stressed "rural rehabilitation" efforts to improve the lifestyle of sharecroppers, tenants, and very poor landowning farmers, and a program to purchase submarginal land owned by poor farmers and resettle them in group farms on land more suitable for efficient farming. |
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| Agricultural Adjustment Administration |
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| restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops, thereby a portion of their fields lie fallow. |
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| was the largest New Deal agency, employing millions to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects. It fed children and redistributed food, clothing, and housing. |
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| was a New Deal project to fund theatre and other live artistic performances in the United States during the Great Depression. |
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| He was one of the architects of the New Deal, especially the relief programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which he directed and built into the largest employer in the country. |
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| scores of writers to produce a number of works detailing the local stories, history, and color of the states and numerous cities and locales across the United States. |
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| Works Progress Administration (WPA). This program involved creating children's theatre as well as "Living Newspaper" plays that would reach out to the culturally unaware. |
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| presented a number of Living Newspapers on social issues of the day, including Triple-A Plowed Under, Injunction Granted, One-Third of a Nation, Power, and Spirochete. |
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| he play involved a worker beaver named Oakleaf, who leads a revolt against "The Chief" Beaver who was exploiting the workers. |
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| Blitzstein portrays a whole panoply of societal figures: Mr. Mister's vicious, outwardly genteel philanthropic wife and spoiled children, sell-out artists, poor shopkeepers, immigrant families, a faithless priest, and an endearing prostitute named Moll. |
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| y of race relations, which culminated in his book An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. The study was influential in the 1954 landmark U.S. Supreme Court Decision Brown v. the Board of Education. |
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| , representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II,[1][2] many of whom worked in the manufacturing plants that produced munitions and war supplies. |
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| cook in the United States Navy noted for his bravery during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was the first African American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the third highest honor awarded by the US Navy at the time, after the Medal of Honor |
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| Victory over fascism abroad, and victory over discrimination at home. Large numbers migrated from poor Southern farms to munitions centers. |
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| African-American civil rights leader and the founder of both the March on Washington Movement and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a landmark for labor and particularly for African-American labor organizing. |
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| Native American of the Pima Indian tribe, and an American Marine who was one of the six men immortalized in the iconic photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima during World War II. |
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| United States and Mexico, for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States. U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Mexican president Manuel Ávila Camacho |
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| series of riots in 1943 during World War II that erupted in Los Angeles, California between white sailors and Marines stationed throughout the city and Latino youths, who were recognizable by the zoot suits they favored. |
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| tried to find homes for the 937 German Jewish refugees after they were denied entry to Cuba. Refused in the US. |
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| allenged racial segregation in Orange County, California schools. In its ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in an en banc decision, held that the segregation of Mexican and Mexican American students into separate "Mexican schools" was unconstitutional. |
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| e United States Committee on Public Information, a propaganda organization created by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. Creel gathered the nation's artists to create thousands of paintings, posters, cartoons, and sculptures promoting the War. |
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| used every medium available to create enthusiasm for the war effort and enlist public support against foreign attempts to undercut America's war aims. |
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| Office of War Information |
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| reated during World War II to consolidate government information services. It operated from June 1942 until September 1945. It coordinated the release of war news for domestic use, and, using posters and radio broadcasts, worked to promote patriotism, warned about foreign spies and attempted to recruit women into war work. |
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| wartime intelligence agency, and it was the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). This agency was formed in order to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for the branches of the United States military. |
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| Britain and the United States of America. It was intended as the blueprint for the postwar world after World War II, and turned out to be the foundation for many of the international agreements that currently shape the world. |
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| s commissioned as a major in the United States Army Signal Corps during World War II. He produced State of the Union and directed or co-directed eight documentary propaganda films between 1942 and 1948, including the seven-episode U.S. government-commissioned Why We Fight series |
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| series of seven propaganda films commissioned by the United States government during World War II to demonstrate to American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement in the war. |
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| title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional cartoon shorts produced between 1943 and 1945 during World War II. |
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| creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries of Europe. US $13 billion in economic and technical assistance were given to help the recovery of the European countries |
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| best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War.his writings inspired the Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of "containing" the Soviet Union |
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| stall the spread of communism, enhance America’s security and influence abroad, and prevent a "domino effect". |
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| U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. |
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| chieved ultimate victory, according to this view, with the collapse of the Soviet power and the emergence of a "new world order" centered on American liberal-capitalist values |
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| American liberal causes include voting rights for African Americans, abortion rights for women, gay rights and government entitlements such as education and health care.[1] |
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| U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow on July 24, 1959. For the exhibition, an entire house was built that the American exhibitors claimed anyone in America could afford. It was filled with labor-saving and recreational devices meant to represent the fruits of the capitalist American consumer market. |
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| A critical label introduced by essayist Philip Wylie in his 1942 collection A Generation of Vipers, referring to a perceived American cult of motherhood; |
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| , the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946. He named it after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the site of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon tests in July that year. |
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