Following the Second World War which African Americans had played such a large part in, and ended up still coming home to beatings and brutal racism, President Truman felt obliged to commit to Civil Rights for African Americans. Strongly demonstrated through his report titled ‘to secure these rights.’ in 1947, which outlined many of the hardships faced by African Americans and provided recommendations on how to solve them. Following the report several initiatives were pushed through by Truman, such as the signing of Executive Order 9980 and Executive Order 10308. These were crucial in improving the lives of African Americans as they guaranteed fair employment practices in the Civil Services and that defence contracts would not go to companies that discriminated against African Americans, hence empowering them in the workplace. On the other hand it could be argued that the Second World War’s influence was in fact limited.
To a large extent Germany was very economically stable as Stresemann introduced a new currency and gained loans from the USA under the Dawes plan. The Dawes plan was produced in 1924 by Gustav Stresemann, it was a USA backed plan which helped to stabilise the economy greatly. The first part of the plan was the introduction of the new rentenmark which would now be worth 100 of the old mark. The plan also gave Germany 800 million marks in loans to aid their economy. The introduction of the rentenmark greatly improved Germany’s economical stability as it helped solve the inflation crisis.
Specifically for African Americans, the equality and desegregation under this act of education, the workplace, and voter’s registration has been tremendously empowering. One of the great things about America that many other countries do not have is free education. Under Plessy v. Ferguson, segregation of schools was legalized under the conditions that it was separate but equal. During that time, the schools were definitely separated, but unquestionably unequal. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 overturned Plessy V. Ferguson which not only led to African Americans having better schools, but also allowed them to learn with their Caucasian peers.
An example of a positive enabler within the community in terms of cultural empowerment is the recent increase in attention the community is receiving to obtain proper medical treatment (LaVeist, p. 45, 1993). These exist in the forms of newspaper articles, articles in African American magazines, and community demonstrations. While these indeed is a progressive enabling movement, it has far to go to undo the damage of years of negative enablers (1993). The single most negative enabler facing the African-American community in terms of cultural empowerment is the widespread idea or lack of knowledge concerning modern medical problems. The strength of the African American culture lies within its ability to rely on itself, which, one can argue, can be a successful model (Dressler et al.
Also, the increased level of production within Germany meant that the industry would grow, and the social welfare constitution proved that the public would have backing from the government with pensions and benefits. However, there were factors which disagreed with the statement as there was a grand coalition within this period that could not co-operate together. Also, Germany being dependent on foreign loans meant that their economic development was not increasing. As well as this, there were still differences within the public in Germany decreasing the social progress in the mid 1920’s. Although, to a certain extent the statement is true as Germany did show that they experienced a period of political calm, economic development and social progress in the mid 1920’s.
In this paper, the goal is to discuss Reconstruction in the United States. Reconstruction was a very important time in the United States. Reconstruction was America’s rebuilding after the Civil War. The Civil War was America’s turning point and Reconstruction was the beginning of the new United States. The new United States was to be the model for the new nations and the new United States was going to be become the most powerful nation after reconstruction.
Along the way, I will attempt to draw attention to my idea that the Second World War and The Cold War has shaped how America is conceived as the only superpower today. What is a superpower? My main focus of this research is the Second World War, but as my question is how America became a superpower, I think it’s necessary to start out by defining what a superpower actually is. A superpower is a state, or country that has a dominant position in the world, has great power, and great influence on international affairs. Some argue that a superpower needs to have a political democracy, economic freedom, military power, quality of life, and high tech creativity.
The reason for the massive expansion in the birth rate was because of the new stable economy, and the jobs the returning men received. It was a time for prosperity and couples were able to have a family again. Having such an enormous generation can impact Canada’s economy severely. A huge generation has a negative impact on an economy because of the things the government has to do to support the growing generation. For example, creating numerous amount of jobs and homes which are going to be occupied just for a certain period of time because the upcoming generation is not as massive as the baby boomers.
This also strengthened their friendship with oreos Britain because they were seen to be helping them in their hour of need - the war. This friendship was so strong that America fought with the Triple Entente at the end of the war. One of the reasons for the economic boom was the introduction of hire-purchase whereby you put a deposit on an item that you wanted and paid installments on that item, with interest, so that you paid back more than the price for the item but did not have to make one payment in one go. Hire-purchase was easy to get and people got into debt without any real planning for the future. In the 1920’s it just seemed to be the case that if you wanted something you got it.
There are a number of factors that may have brought about this new ‘improved’ period of time for Germany, these being the numerous political and economic developments, the social and cultural changes and also the changes in Germany’s foreign policy. Regardless of the losses suffered from the Treaty of Versailles, heavy industry recovered quickly during this time and by 1928 levels of production had matched that of 1913. This was due to the introduction of more efficient methods of production especially in coal-mining and steel manufacturing and also because of the higher level of investment. The high interest rates of Germany were particularly attractive to foreign bankers which further stimulated the German economy. At the same time, industry also had the advantage of lower costs due to the ever increasing number of cartels allowing for greater purchasing power than that of smaller businesses.