Reparations for African Americans over slavery and institutional racism has been debated in the United States for the past 150 years, ever since the end of the American Civil War. Since the war ended in 1865, African Americans have continued to still struggled through Jim Crow laws, the fight for civil rights, and President Roosevelt’s … Read more
Being Jewish anywhere in the world was hard in the 1930s and 40s. Almost all know about German jewish hardship, the systematic slaughter of millions of jews in death camps across Hitler’s empire, but what many do not understand is that antisemitism was incredibly strong in the United States as well. However, in a time … Read more
Herbert Hoover was the thirty first president of the United States. His term was from 1929 to 1933. He was the first president born west of the Mississippi river. He was a self made man who rose from humble beginnings. He became a millionaire through his mining career. He was a humanitarian who helped people … Read more
With the U. S trying to gain isolationism after World War One happened, World War Two breaks out and everyone needs guns and resources to fight off and defend their nation. The U. S decides to pass a lot of rules saying we won’t trade with any other nation because we don’t want to get … Read more
President Hoover lost his second term because he failed to keep his promise the American people after he declared that the country had left the poor house forever, merely in less than a year, the great depression hit America. Then, the people lost confidence in him and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the election with … Read more
The period between 1924 and 1929 is known as the ‘Golden Age’ or ‘The Years of Hope’. Some people think that the Weimar Republic recovered, but others disagree and think that it’d got worse or was only a slight improvement. During the years 1924 to 1929 the Weimar Republic appeared to recover from the disasters … Read more