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John J. Pershing
John Joseph Pershing, was the general in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War I -
Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States -
Marcus Garvey
Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism Movements -
Alvin York
Alvin Cullum York, known also by his rank, Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. -
Dorothea Lange
American documentary photographer and photojournalist that was best known for the great depression photography -
Langston Hughes
an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. -
Charles Lindbergh
an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. -
The Great Migration
mass movement of about five million southern African Americans to the north and west between 1915 and 1960 -
Sussex Pledge
promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States prior to the latter's entry into the war -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front -
Treaty of Versailles
one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers -
jazz music
A style of music that was especially popular in the 1920s -
Return to Normalcy
A book about a return to life before World War I -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s -
The Great Depression
A period of economic crisis when 1/3 of the US population was unemployed -
The Dust Bowl
period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later -
Red Scare
Period of time where people were blackisted becuase of the suspicion that they were comunist
