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    the date they joined at that time. Azerbaijan formed in 1936, along with Armenia 1936, Belarus 1922, Estonia 1940, Georgia 1936, Kazakhstan 1936, Kyrgyzstan 1935, Latvia 1940, Lithuania 1940, Moldova 1922, Russia 1922, Tajikistan 1929, Turkmenistan 1924, Ukraine 1922, and Uzbekistan…

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    Jacques Copeau was born in a well off middle class family in Paris, France. He had always had a love for poetry, theatre, and literature and became acquaintances with some of the theater people and playwrights of his time. He became known as an advocate for theater reform after he was impatient with commercial theater, and was a director, producer, actor, and dramatist. Copeau’s first stage play was Brouillard du Matin at the Nouveau Theater in France. Copeau’s Career Timeline In 1909, he became…

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    It was around 1917 and 1924 were a progression of laws were confirmed to constrain the number of new aliens. These laws set up the share system and constrained identification requirements. They additionally extended the classifications of forgivable aliens and banned all Asians aside from the Japanese. A 1924 Act was made to diminish the quantity of United States migration visas and apportioned them on the establishment…

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    eliminate his political opponents (Perfect, Ryan, & Sweeney, 2008). As historian Orlando Figes wrote in his book, A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924, “On one hand it seems clear that the basic elements of the Stalinist regime, the one-party state, the system of terror and the cult of personality – were all in place by 1924.” This restricting of political freedoms and prohibiting political opposition allowed absolute power for the Communists and laid the foundation for a…

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    Lenin (Russia) 1917-1924 Lenin was born on April 22, 1870, in Simbirsk, Russia. He was the third of six children. His parent were well educated, and he also attended high school. During the high school, he showed a particular gift of Latin and Greek. When he was a boy, his father was threatened with early retirement by a suspicious government nervous about the influence public school had on Russian society. In 1887, his big brother, Aleksandr, was arrested and executed for being a part of a…

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    Wright left off and started distributing it in available over-the-counter form. As its popularity grew so did its unrestricted distribution. It was available over the counter and sent as free samples in the mail. By 1924 approximately 200,000 people in the U.S. were addicted. In 1924 Heroin was legally banned in the United States. German Lopez wrote the article “Why some US cities are opening safe spaces for injecting heroin.” He states that cities in the US are fighting to open supervised…

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    York for the next year. He was an assistant cook, launderer, and table attendant. He at that point marked on as a steward on a freighter that took him to Africa and Spain. He left the ship in 1924 and lived for a brief span in Paris, France, where he continued to develop poems and publish them. In November of 1924, he, once again, returned to the United States where he would work different employments. In 1925, he was filling in as a table attendant in a Washington D.C. hotel restaurant. This…

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    originally passed in 1924 in favor of a quota and preference system” was enacted by the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965. The US began allowing a new system that enabled entire families to relocate, unite families and attract skilled labor workers to the United States. These policies reversed years of restrictive and systematic exclusion of people from certain countries to enter the country, South and East Asians were no longer barred from entry as they had been since 1924. During…

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    residents from that same country living in the United States as of the U.S. Census of 1910. This meant that those who lived in Europe had a higher chance of being able to immigrate to the states than those who lived in other parts of the world. In 1924 the Johnson-Reed act,…

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    rights and they wanted one of those rights to be having the ability to play sports, like the men did. In the 1900s women were allowed to participate in the Olympics, but only could enter in tennis, golf and croquet. Then during the years of 1920, 1924, and 1928 women were allowed to compete in swimming, diving, skating, skiing, tennis, horseshoe pitching, table tennis, fencing, golf, field hockey,…

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