The History That Has made America Today

  The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest, and West from about 1916 to 1970. Driven from their homes by unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws, many Black Americans headed north, where they took advantage of the need for industrial workers that arose during the First World War. During the Great Migration, African Americans began to build a new place for themselves in public life, actively confronting racial prejudice as well as economic, political, and social challenges to create a Black urban culture that would exert enormous influence in the decades to come. What caused The Great Migration? After the Civil War and the Reconstruction era, racial inequality persisted across the South during the 1870s, and the segregationist policies known as “Jim Crow” soon became the law of the land. Southern Black people were forced to make their living working the land ...

Introduction about sinking of the Lusitania:- The sinking of the Lusitania was an important  event in World War 1. The death of so many innocent civilians at the hands of the Germans galvanized American support for entering the war, which eventually turned the tide in favor of the Allies. What was the Lusitania? The Lusitania was a British luxury cruise ship. At one point in 1907, it held the title as the largest ship in the world. It mostly travelled across the Atlantic Ocean between Britain and the United States carrying passengers and cargo. The ship was 787 feet long and could carry 3,048 passengers and crew.   Leading up to the attack:- World War I had begun in 1914. On the western front, the British and the French were fighting against the advancing Germans. New supplies for the war effort were transported using shipping lanes around Britain. At first, the Germans tried to gain control of the shipping lanes using their navy, but the British managed to keep the German...

  An introduction about Berlin War:-     On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutz wall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall. Some crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers and pick and began to chip away at the wall itself. To this day, the Berlin Wall remains one of the most powerful and enduring symbols of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall: The Partitioning of Ber...

Persian Gulf War, also called Gulf War, (1990-91), international conflict that was triggered by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, ordered the invasion and occupation of Kuwait with the apparent aim of acquiring those nations large oil reserves, cancelling a large debt Iraq owed Kuwait, and expanding Iraqi power in the region. It was the first major international crises of the post cold war era, and the US led response would set important precedents for the use of military force over subsequent decades. Causes of the war:- The seeds for the Gulf War were laid decades before the first military action occurred. Iraq had long been a volatile country in the Middle East, causing trouble with other nations around it. In the 1960s, a coup d’état, or seizure of power, occurred in Iraq, and the Ba'athist political party took power. By the late 1970s, a leading Ba'athist politician, General Saddam Hussein, became the official president of Iraq, ...

 The Vietnam War was a lengthy, expensive, and controversial battle that pitted North Vietnam's communist government against South Vietnam and its main ally, the US. The ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union exacerbated the issue. The Vietnam War claimed the lives of approximately 3 million people, including over 58,000 Americans, with Vietnamese civilians accounting for more than half of those murdered. Even after President Richard Nixon signed the Paris Peace Accords and ordered the evacuation of US forces in 1973, opposition to the war in the United States remained fierce. In 1975, communist forces took control of South Vietnam, and the country was unified the following year as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Roots in the Vietnam war Since the 19th century, France has ruled over Vietnam, a Southeast Asian country on the eastern side of the Indochinese peninsula. Japanese armies invaded Vietnam during World War II. To combat both Japanese occupiers an...

 The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that mostly took place in the 1950s and 1960s in the United States, with the goal of granting Black Americans equal legal rights. Although the Civil War ended slavery, it did not stop prejudice against African-Americans, who continued to suffer the devastating impacts of racism, particularly in the South. By the mid-nineteenth century, Black Americans had had their fill of bigotry and brutality. They, together with a large number of white Americans, rallied and began a two-decade-long campaign for equality. World war II and civil rights Most Black people worked as low-wage farmers, industrial laborers, domestics, or servants prior to World War II. War-related labor was thriving in the early 1940s, but most Black Americans were denied the better-paying positions. They were also persuaded not to enlist in the military. On June 25, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802 in response to thousands of ...

 The three terrorist attacks in America on September 9th, 2001 caused almost 3,500 deaths in total and several more injured, Their were 4 hijacked planes two planes directed towards the twin towers of the world trade center, a third towards the pentagon and the fourth to a random field. World trade center  At 8:45 on a clear Tuesday morning an American Airlines Boeing 767 packed with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashed into the north tower of the worlds trade center leaving a gaping burning hole near the 80th floor in the 110 story skyscraper 18 minutes later a second Boeing 767 united Airlines flight 175 crashed into the south tower near floor 60 causing an explosion so massive it caused debris to fly out on to the streets and neighboring buildings, and injuring nearby bystanders, less than 15 minutes after a plane crashed into the pentagon the south tower collapsed in a massive cloud of dust and smoke and at 10:30 am the north tower collapsed and only 6 people survived fro...

The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from the stock market crash of 1929 to 1939.  It all started after the October 1929 stock market crash, which threw Wall Street into a hysteria and wiped out millions of investors. Consumer spending and investment fell sharply during the next few years, resulting in major drops in industrial output and employment as failing businesses laid off workers. By 1933, when the Great Depression had reached its worst, 15 million Americans had lost their jobs, and nearly half of the country's banks had failed. Many people think that the Great Depression started on Tuesday, October 29, but economists  think Black Tuesday was just one of the causes. Causes:- The stock market, based on the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street in New York City, was a center of foolish gambling, with everyone from billionaires to cooks and janitors investing their savings. As a result, the stock ma...