However the great bridges of our nation were not built today. They were built at the direction of the Works Projects Administration (WPA) of the 1930's. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal of the great depression put millions of people back to work and built our nations infrastructure, as we know it today. ... During the Great Depression at least three quarters of the population throughout the United States lived in the cities. ... It did not bring about radical change conducive to ending the Great Depression. ...

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In the 1930's, comedies and musicals released by Hollywood were immensely popular with the public. They provided a release from the economic and social pressures of the Great Depression. But as the 1940's came along and World War II shook up the world, a series of movies began to appear in American ...

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The humiliation imposed by the victors in the Great War, coupled with the hardship of the economic Depression, created bitterness and anger. ... He was wise, heroic, a great genius and perhaps even infallible. ... The fascist government made great use of modern technical achievements of propaganda such as, radio, cinema, newspapers and newsreel. ... Italians were heirs to the greatness of Ancient Rome, thus, could "recognise a barbarian in every man of non-Latin blood-. ... Mussolini was prevailed upon by Hitler to peruse a racist programme, but it was not followed with great vigour in Italy. ...

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