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Apartheid
Apartheid was the system of racial segregation in South Africa and Namibia that was in effect between 1948 and 1991. This system consisted of the creation of separate residential, academic, and recreational spaces for different racial groups, the exclusive right to vote for white people, and the prohibition of marriage or even sexual relations between whites and blacks. Its purpose was to preserve power for the white minority which would otherwise have lost its privileged position. -
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Classical Hollywood Cinema
Classical Hollywood cinema was the greatest period in American cinema. It originated in a cinematic style, both narrative and visual, that first developed between the 1910s and 1920s, during the final years of the silent film era. It subsequently became a hallmark of cinema during Hollywood's Golden Age. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression, also known as the 1929 Crisis, was a major global financial crisis in the years leading up to World War II. It began around 1929. It originated in the United States, following the crash of the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, October 29, 1929. The depression had devastating effects in almost all countries, rich and poor, where insecurity and misery spread like an epidemic, causing national income, tax revenues, corporate profits, and prices to fall. -
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Women's suffrage
Women's suffrage, or women's suffrage, refers to the right of women to vote and be elected to public office, as well as the historic struggle of women to obtain recognition as a political and constitutional right, also known as suffragism. It constitutes an essential element of universal suffrage and democracy. Women achieved this right on October 1, 1931. -
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The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan, officially known as the European Recovery Program (ERP), was a United States initiative to aid Western Europe. Named after its conceived Secretary of State, George Marshall, it involved providing economic aid worth approximately $13 billion at the time for the reconstruction of European countries devastated by World War II. The plan ran for four years, beginning on April 3, 1948. -
Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism is a school of economic and political thought that promotes reducing the role of the state in the economy, the privatization of public companies ...
The 1929 crisis, the New Deal, the rise of Keynesianism, the increase in public spending, and the role of the state in the West led to the "liberalism," modified and adopted by various governments in the 1980s, receiving another name: neoliberalism. -
Legalization of divorce
On June 22, 1981, the divorce law was passed in Spain, a historic milestone in a conservative society emerging from a long dictatorship and which represented "the first step towards equality," recalls one of its main promoters forty years later. -
The dissolution of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union or the dissolution of the USSR, was the disintegration of the federal political structures and the central government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), culminating in the independence of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union between March 11, 1990, and December 26, 1991.