Black Tom Explosion German Empire attack on New York

== Black Tom Island ==
Black Tom Island is an island in New Jersey that was formed by a large landfill around the 1800s and has had a history with explosions like in January of 1875 an accidentally explosion killed 4 men.
== 1916 explosion ==
In 1916 German spies wanting to halt U.S. trade with Europe during WWI they decided to take war supplies via Russia and to blow up Tom Island with 100,000 pounds of dynamite, the resulting explosion resulted in waves traveling up to 24,000 feet per second which resulted in firefighters who arrived on to be knocked off their feet and pieces reportedly hit the Statue of Liberty, the wave was later put as a 5.5 on the Richter Scale which is about the same scale as an earthquake. In total 4 people died and 100 more were injured, the aftermath changed how presidents handle with war and was a key component for Franklin Roosevelt's decision to establish Japanese Intermate Camps.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tom_explosion
File:View of the debris of the Lehigh Valley pier after Black Tom explosion (cropped).jpg|damage on the nearby pier
File:Black Tom Island 1915.jpg|Black Tom Island map in 1915
File:Black Tom explosion headline.jpg|Newspaper about bombing on July 31st of 1916