Economic Crisis. The beginning of the Great Depression can be traced to the stock market crash of Tuesday, October 29, 1929 (also known as "Black Tuesday"). The 1920s were a time of increased stock market speculation. ... The depression's immediate impact on Georgia was much like that throughout the nation as a whole.Nov 5, 2007
Hey, that's a great essay prompt. It often happens that when threatened by some threat to our way of life in a democracy, we respond in very undemocratic ways. During the McCarthy years, people's privacy was invaded as accusations about communists and communist sympathizers were aimed at all sorts of people. Many people in the Hollywood film industry were targeted during that time, for instance. But defenders of freedom (including film and television people) fought back against that. We must always adhere to our primary aims as a society -- the rights and liberties of each individual. We don't want to get into "witch hunts" where we suspect our neighbors of evil for no good reason.
Speaking of "witch hunts," the playwright Arthur Miller wrote a really powerful play in 1953, during the Cold War, which focused on the Salem witch trials. He was making the point that what was happening in the McCarthy era (hunting for communists) was another manifestation of the witch-burning craze that had happened at a previous time in history.
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Rome's navy no longer had enough ships to control the Mediterranean Sea. The Roman army grew in size and became dominant in the Mediterranean region. Rome limited its soldiers to six months of service each year.
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the 1980s
Explanation:
Computers went on the market in 1977, and cultural lag created the shifting of computers to the 1980s
