Dimensions
227 x 278 x 8mm
29th October 1929.
Black Tuesday, 29 October 1929, was the day an era came to an end. The 1920s had been a magical time in the history of the USA - a time of jazz music, flappers and gangsters, and a time when the stock market encouraged dreams of unlimited wealth.
Thousands bought shares and watched their value soar at the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street. But on Black Tuesday, it all came to a shuddering halt. Share prices plummeted. Panic set in. Fortunes were lost in the financial disaster that became known as the Wall Street Crash.
What caused the crash? Did nobody see it coming? How did the buying and selling of shares create and destroy a nation's dreams, and plunge the world into depression and war?
History sometimes takes place over long periods of time; sometimes it can occur in a single day. This high-drama series looks at those momentous days in the last century when great and terrible things transpired within 24 hours, which would leave an impact on the history of the world for decades afterwards.
