True.
Consider a court case. A jury hears the witnesses placed on the stand. Each witness would be individually interviewed, giving an account of the same event which would be written (most likely by an officer) apart from other witnesses, very likely at different times, so that there's no collusion between witnesses. The eyewitness accounts help the Jury understand an event and is a part of their decision making.
Many banks had invested in the market and faced significant shortfall; several faced insolvency. The Crash also prompted a run on gold deposits, further reducing the amount of deposits banks had on hand. As a result, banks curtailed their lending activities, contributing to an economic slowdown.
I believe it is Religious Beliefs
There were long seeded differences between the United States and the Soviet Union over ideologies. In the Russian Revolution of 1917 the communists took power. The United States and Britain were worried that the same thing might happen in their countries.
Rome's rivalry with Carthage for control of the western Mediterranean