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Country: United States, Year: 1933-1939, Significance: A series of programs and reforms to recover from the Great Depression.

Country: United States (for Europe), Year: 1948, Significance: An American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the U.S. gave over $12 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.$

Country: South Africa, Year: 1948-1994, Significance: A policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by the National Party government.

Country: United Kingdom, Year: 1942, Significance: This report led to the establishment of a welfare state and the National Health Service post-World War II.

Country: United States, Year: 1964, Significance: Landmark legislation that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, and ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public.

Country: United States, Year: 1935, Significance: A social welfare legislative act which created the Social Security system, providing financial aid to the elderly, the unemployed, and people with disabilities.

Country: China, Year: 1979, Significance: A government policy to control population growth by limiting families to one child, often enforced by financial incentives and other means.

Country: United States, Year: 1965, Significance: Programs that provide health coverage to the elderly (Medicare) and to low-income families and individuals (Medicaid).

Country: United States, Year: 1862, Significance: Authorized the transfer of 160 acres of public land to each settler, after five years of residence and the improvement of the land, to encourage westward expansion.

Country: United States, Year: 1944, Significance: Provided veterans of the Second World War funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing.

Country: United States, Year: 2001, Significance: Expanded the authority of American law enforcement for the stated purpose of fighting terrorist acts in the United States and abroad.

Country: United States, Year: 1996, Significance: Changed the nation's welfare system by encouraging work and raising children in married-couple families.

Country: United States, Year: 2010, Significance: Ended the U.S. military's policy banning openly gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals from serving, known as 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'.

Country: United States, Year: 2001, Significance: Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which included measures to close the achievement gap between students.