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John J. Pershing
He was the general in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces to vicotury over Germany in WWI. He rejected the British and French demands that American forces be integrated witht their armies. -
Warren G. harding's "return to Normalcy"
Was the 29th president of the Unites States, a republican from Ohio who served in the Ohio Senate and then in the united states senate where he played a minor role. -
Glenn Curtiss
He was an American aviation pioneer and founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles. In 1904 he began to manufacture engines for airships. Curtiss joined the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) to build flying machines. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Commonly known by his initials FDR, was an american statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the U.S.. A Democrat he won a record four elections and served from March 1933 to his death in April 1945. -
Marcus Garvey
He was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, jounalist, enterpreneur, and orator who was a loyal proponent of the Black Nationalism. He founded the black star line, which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands. -
Alvin York
Alvin Cullum York was born in a two room log cabin near Pall Mall Tennessee. Sergeant York was one of the most decorated American soilders in WWI. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun. -
Dorothea Lange
Born of second generation German immigrants on May 26,1895, at 1041 Bloomfield street, Hoboken, New Jersey. She was an influentiial American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her depression era work for the FSA. -
Langston Hughes
He was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue". -
Charles Lindbergh
He was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West. Numbering about 1.6 million migrants who left mostly rural areas to migrate to northern indutrial cities. -
Sussex Pledge
The Sussex Pledge was a promise made in 1916 during WWI by Germany to the United States prior to the entry into the war.Early in 1915 Germany had instituted a policy of unristricted submarine warfare, allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships to be torpedoed without warning. -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
It was part of the final Allied offensive of WWI that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought from September 26, 1918, until the Armistice on November 11 a total of 47 days. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of WWI. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. -
jazz music
The period from the end of the first World War until the start of the depression in 1929 is known as the Jazz age. Jazz had become popular music in America, although older generations considered the music immoral and threatning to old cultural values. -
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 WWI and the middle of the 1930s. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. -
The great depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the time of WWII. The timing of the Depression varied across nations, but in the countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl also known as the Dirty Thisties was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriclutural of the US. Severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methodsto prevent wind erosion. -
The new deal
The new deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the US between 1933 and 1938 and few that came later. They included both laws passed by congress as well as presidential executive orders the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Red scare
A Red Scare is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the united States, the first Red Scare was about worker revolution and political radicalism.
