The public opinion of wanting to be peaceful was the main reason why the National Government felt as if there was no alternative to appeasing Hitler and Mussolini. It was important to recognise the opinion of the people and to try and fulfil it, especially between 1933 and 1937, because of the general election of 1935. The National Government announced plans of avoiding war and rearmament benefits; meanwhile, details of the Hoare-Laval Pact were being agreed between Britain and France. The major issues that the public were concerned with over the election was the promise of peace, the continuing problem of unemployment, and the role of the League of Nations. When details of the Pact were released by the press, the public were outraged, and the Labour Party claimed if the reports in the press of the contents of the Pact were true, then the government was contradicting the pro-League policy it had just won the election on.
The Nazis felt like this political group was trying to undermine their “people’s community”. Hitler made it very clear that he did not want the communists in his people community when he and the Nazi party realised their 25 point programme of 1920.However the Nazis also portrayed the socialist and any other party of which had taken part in coalition governments during the Weimar republic as they collaborated with communism and Jewish democracy. Hitler wanted to introduce the policy of volksgeminschaft in this case because if he could eliminate the communists and the other parties who were associated as collaborating with them, the Nazis could then get their votes as they had a high amount of supporters, which would mean them having the majority and coming into power. Anybody who the Nazis believed that represented a threat to the racial purity of which Hitler wanted would come under the socialism categories. This included, Jews, gypsies and those who were seen as mentally or physically unfit.
Pressure groups activity in the UK presents a major threat to democracy. Evaluate the arguments in favour of this view (25 marks) Pressure groups aim to influence government policy without seeking election itself. The actions of pressure groups challenge and influence democracy as well as being beneficial to democracy in the UK as pressure groups challenge policies and put pressure on the government to change them. On the other hand pressure groups only represent a minority of people’s views and aren’t considered a major threat to democracy. Robert Dahl and Charles Lindbolm suggest a pluralist view of democracy suggesting that pressure groups are beneficial to democracy.
These two projects became the key issues of the elections. The main difference between them was that in Roosevelt’s the government should control the bad trust, leaving the good one alone and free to operate while Wilson’s objective was to break up all trust and basically shun social-welfare proposals. Wilson won manly because the Republican party devided, because of this he’s also called a Minority President. During his ministry he tackled the “triple wall of privilege”: the tariff, the banks and the trusts. This benefited the American public.
Providing the Confederacy with war supplies influenced Southern power, and their assertiveness towards the Union proved beneficial to international relations. The victory of the Union encouraged the forces in Britain that demanded more democracy and public contribution into the political system. Rather than an outbreak of war, relations between America and Britain were ultimately improved when the idea of widespread famine threatened England. The American Civil War proved difficult but eventually beneficial for Britain, giving them the opportunity to check their growth and rise to power. Keeping within British tradition and diplomacy, Britain never openly partnered with the South and their involvement in the war was to protect their own people, economy, actions and
They are part of the story in a new text entitled The Second Red Scare: the unmaking of the New Deal Left, by Landon Storrs. Storrs major primary source is the loyalty program implemented on federal employees in an effort to weed out Communists in the government. She examines how this program was actually used to silence many of the early new dealers and to discredit their policies that were used to establish the welfare state, to safeguard and strengthen the economy under capitalism and to end economic inequality. And also as in the case of the project, Many are the crimes, to destroy the
As President, Wilson had campaigned against corruption in politics and business. He concentrated on keeping the USA out of the war. Once the USA had joined the war, he drew up his Fourteen Point Plan as the basis for ending the war fairly, so that future wars could be avoided. Wilson wanted a 'fair and lasting peace', and he wanted the armed forces of all nations reduced, not just the losers, and a League of Nations created to ensure peace. His plan affected the Treaty of Versailles as some of the terms in that treaty came from Wilson’s Fourteen Points, including German troops leaving Russia and free trade between all countries.
1920’s Paragraph In the 1920’s America underwent significant changes politically and socially, experimenting with increasing government control and influence upon its people. One such was the government tried to gain more control and influence the people was through the implementation of Prohibition. Through Prohibition they banned the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of alcohol. With this, they hoped to reduce the consumption, leading to the reduction of crime and slacking on the job, while simultaneously promoting traditional values onto the citizens. While Prohibition was a fine idea in theory, it ended up turning the average civilian into a common criminal.
The first was the “Hatch act of 1939”, which prevented the hiring of federal workers who were part of the Communist Party. Next came the “Public Law 135” in 1941, which gave the government power to investigate any worker suspected of being a “commie” and fire them. The government benefited from Anti-Communism because it was an easy way to control the masses into thinking that whatever they did was right because it was for the “greater good of democracy”. This ideology was very effective because the American people were eager to fight for their country, to get rid of the communist threat, which was necessary during WWII. After WW2, Anti-Communism grew even more during the Cold War.
At the core of this argument is whether if assault weapons are banned the resulting effect will be that gun violence will reduce. Gun laws in America have evolved with time from the get go the laws on firearms initially granted citizens the right to bear and keep arms. But as time progressed new laws came into effect due to arising circumstances.one such example was the National Firearms Act in 1934. This law was passed due to “lawlessness and rise of gangster culture during prohibition, President Franklin D. Roosevelt hoped this act would eliminate automatic-fire weapons like machine guns from America's streets. Other firearms such as short-barreled shotguns and rifles, parts of guns like silencers, as well as other "gadget-type" firearms hidden in canes and such were also targeted.