The short term goals were aimed at relief and recovery. ... For recovery he put the banks under guidelines. ... He helped out industry with the National Industrial Recovery Act, which brought about the National Recovery Administration, and the Public Works Administration. In the reform area he had the Beer and Wine Revenue Act, the Tennessee Valley Authority act, Federal Securities Act, and the Glass-Steagall Banking Reform. ... The New Deal caused such a opposition from conservatives because FDR put the country in a huge debt. ...

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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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This was due to Lewis refusing to sign the non-Communist affidavit required by the Taft-Hartley Labor Act. ... Davis was twice elected to the UMWA National Executive Board as well. ... UMWA organizers fanned out across the nation in 1933 to organize all coal miners after the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act. ... The UMWA lobbied hard and got Congress to enact the landmark Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act. ... The miners struck to improve these conditions but the poor coal market lead coal operators to harden their opposition to the miners' demands. ...

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In manufacturing, the rate of unemployment rose even higher than the national average as output dropped by half between 1929 and 1932, and in some industries, such as automobiles, by nearly three-quarters. (Himmelberg, 9) In many of the great industrial cities such as Detroit, Toledo, and Cleveland, half or more of the blue-collar workers were unemployed by 1932. ... They initially tended to believe the reassurances they received, for they had long entrusted the success of the economy to Republican presidents and to big business leaders, however, it would only be later, after the Democrats ha...

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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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West German diplomacy tried to balance national interests in Western Europe. ... The European Recovery Program exerted a formative role on the emerging West German state and economy. ... American General Clay was thinking that to utilise German resources for European recovery, not by stripping of coal and industrial machinery as the French wanted, but by restoring its output, consuming fuel and raw materials within Germany, and allowing the country to trade in European markets. ... The Americans shared a view that Marshall Aid must make Europe as a whole self-sustaining within four years, it ...

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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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In 1905, members from over 43 groups joined to create the Industrial Workers of the World (www.aflcio.org). ... He won their favor even more when he created the National Recovery Administration (NRA) and appointed Frances Perkins as US Secretary of Labor Tholen 5 (www.spartacus.schoolnet). ... Opposition came to unionists when businesses started firing its employees for the sole reason they were members. ... This changed dramatically with the passing of the National Labor Relations Act in 1933 (www.spartacus.schoolnet). ... These are important because these people will continue to Tho...

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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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As well as this, the opposition to Weimar was not as well organised as the government. This was particularly true of opposition from the left wing. ... The enormous national debt of 150,000 million marks to just 15 pfennigs. ... However, the Government was largely blamed for the crisis, regardless of the motive of generating sympathy or the quick recovery. ... Many of them were more like interest groups than national parties. ...

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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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That is, the people elect representatives to act as their agents in making and enforcing laws. ... In one-party nations, the candidates the party selects to run for office automatically win election because they have no opposition. ... If the prime minister's program fails to win parliamentary support, the opposition party may demand an election. ... Providing opposition. ... In most two-party nations, the party out of power usually provides unified opposition. ...

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For the first time the Republican platform totally abandoned its traditional opposition to involvement in foreign treaties and supported the United States participation in post war organizations. ... National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) It legalized practices allowed only unevenly in the past, such as closed shops in which only union members could work and collective bargain. The act also set up the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to enforce its provisions g. ... National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of June 1933 The decline in the industrial prices in 1930s caused busin...

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Since it's inception, all of the environmental activist groups and a majority of the States across the nation have voiced opposition to what essentially is an attempt to destroyed much of the Clean Air Act in favor the largest, most profitable, polluters in the U.S. The Clean Air Act was in response to wide spread industrial air pollution that affected millions of people across the nation. It came on the heals of such landmark legislation as the Superfund Re-authorization Act, to cleanup contaminated sites like Love Canal and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) to regulate ...

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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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He won national acclaim after his defeat of the British at the Battle of New Orleans. ... As economic recovery began to take place in Europe, the American market was flooded with imports. ... Adams was a professional statesman with limited electoral experience but he hoped to lead the nation to rapid success as a commercial and industrial society. ... The supporters of Adams called themselves the National Republicans while the Jacksonians were referred to as the Democratic Republicans. The National Republicans wholly supported Adams's economic plan for the country while the Democrats d...

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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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Unfortunately, these movements had left China in a state where "agriculture was stagnant, industrial production was low, and the people's living standards had not increased in twenty years" (Shirk 200). ... While "the gross output value of industry and agriculture increased by 810 percent and national income grew by 420 percent [between 1952 and 1980] ... average individual income increased by only 100 percent" (Ma Hong quoted in Shirk 28). ... To be sure, the move toward economic reform came about as a result of a "changed domestic and international environment, which altered the leaders...

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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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