Imagine life is going great and within a second it turns dark and affects you and the millions around you. It was October 29‚ 1929‚ now known as “Black Tuesday” when the stock market crashed. The crash happened due to most people buying on credit. Some people got a loan to buy shares. The crash was on Wall Street in New York. All the investors that day lost $14 Billion on the New York Stock Exchange which is equivalent to $199 billion today. After the crash‚ stock prices continued to fall. People’s
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Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon‚ Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin‚ on July 20‚ 1969‚ at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface 6 hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC. Armstrong spent about two and a half hours outside the spacecraft‚ Aldrin slightly less; and together they collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material for return to Earth. A third member of the mission‚ Michael Collins‚ piloted the command spacecraft alone
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Apollo11 Moon Landing‚ Was it Just a Fake? Many accomplishments throughout the years‚ in the United States have formed our country to a nationalist society. On July 20th‚ 1969‚ the Mission Control Center in Houston‚ Texas received the call‚ “Houston”‚ which confirmed the landing of these three astronauts on the moon. Recently though‚ many discussions of the Apollo 11 mission have astonished thoughts of many Americans. Conspiracy theorists are looking at the Moon Landing as a hoax and
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world super power. With the American mindset of being on top‚ the government became more confident in its abilities and started to get more involved with American lives. Also getting more involved in the American economy. Then an unexpected change within America was taking place. Minority groups within America started to gain a leeway within social equality. Whether these changes were for better or worse‚ the government involvement in American life then shaped how America is today. Now with WW2 officially
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Between 1860 and 1900 the United States treated Chinese workers very poorly and did not pay them much for their services they provided in the jobs that were open to them. This period of time is also when the Gilded Age was occurring in America‚ so all Chinese workers in the U.S. were most likely working in a gold mine or on railroads‚ making it easy to classify that they were all be treated the same nationwide. By November‚ 1865‚ there were already approximately 4‚000 mostly Chinese men working on
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Pearl Harbor in the 1094’s. This attack hurt America great‚ but also made America a lot stronger. This attack shaped America into the great country I live in today. On the morning of Sunday‚ December 7‚ 1941‚ a strange plane flew over the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor‚ dropping bombs on eight of the American battleships. These strange planes were Japanese bombers that destroyed 180 American warplanes‚ 2‚400 American servicemen and civilians‚ and wounded
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and Herbert Hoover began their journeys to get America through the Great Depression. But how would this economic catastrophe affect America and could it be prevented? The starting point of the Great Depression is usually listed as 1929 which is commonly called Black Tuesday. Black Tuesday has been just one of the major causes of the Great Depression. This was the same day that the stock market dropped dramatically and had an enormous effect on American lives. Fifteen billion dollars in stock value
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Between World War I and World War II America went through events in the political‚ economical and social areas that would change the face of the nation forever. The various eras- World War I‚ the Roaring Twenties‚ The Great Depression & the New Deal‚ and World War II each had separate issues that caused changes in relation to class‚ gender‚ domestic and international affairs. Although many of these events were only effective temporarily‚ others still show a strong influence today. Movements such
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America’s Production Great in scale‚ death toll‚ and influence‚ the First World War was the primary factor that built the United States into the superpower it is today. Woodrow Wilson‚ by ending the long-standing isolationism engulfing America and rally the country to enter World War I‚ ushered in a new era for America and its foreign policy. His mission to “make the world safe for democracy” set the tone for many of the reforms America would undergo‚ and it sparked a new fire in the population never
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Apollo moon landing was a hoax The US Moon landing program was started by John F. Kennedy in response to the Soviet Union’s early successes in space exploration‚ just in case the world decided that Communism was the way to go. The Moon landing hoax refers to the belief of a small‚ but persistent‚ percentage of people who think that the Apollo Moon landings of the late 60s and early 70s were propaganda films produced by NASA to embarrass the USSR in the cold war. First I will start talking about
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