The Epic of Gilgamesh was a classic epic and a source of information on Sumerian values.
President Hoover was historically and categorically a bad president when it cam to treating the Depression in the United States because he was against government intervention.
Answer: a. it suggested that the soviet union might have the capability to launch missiles at American cities.
Context: The Sputnik satellite was sent into orbit by the USSR on October 4, 1957. The Soviets announced its mission as a scientific one, to study the solar system. In the Cold War atmosphere, of course, Americans were wary of what other motives the USSR might have had. The Soviets launched Sputnik 2 in November, 1957, with a dog on board. The USA scrambled to get its own satellite program operational, launching the first US satellite, Explorer, on January 1, 1958.
The Stocks of companies like General Electric, Western Union and United States Steel, were hit so hard by the drop because those companies were among the country’s strongest stocks. These companies were leaders of the stock market and everyone was interested in buying or investing only in these companies.
This was the reason that these companies or ‘Market leaders’ hard hit the stock exchange market. The New York Exchange is also known as “The Big Board” is the largest stock exchange market of the world by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$30.1 trillion by February 2018.