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jazz music
The jazz music was established by african americans. It is a music trend that isn't only expressing culture but also social and racial problems. It got very popular during the 1920s and was changing the role of african americans in american society. -
Glenn Curtiss
In 1904, Glenn Curtiss began to manufacture engines for airplanes. He will be known for the first public witnessed flight in America and produced airplanes in WW1. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was working together with Organizations that wanted to help African Americans and in 1914 he organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Jamaica. -
Sussex Pledge
The Sussex Pledge was a promise by Germany to America to prevent the US from the entry into WW1 because Germany feared the entry. It said that Germany would change their naval policy to not take down passenger ships by torpedoing. -
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The Great Migration
The Great Migration is the relocation of over 6 million African Americans to the cities in the North coming from the rural area of the South. It's significance is the change of the urban places of the US. -
John J. Pershing
John J. Pershing was the general that helped lead the Allied Forces to victory over Germany. He was a general of the american Army that joined the World War in 1917. -
Alvin York
Sergeant Alvin York was certainly known as one of the most decorated soldiers of WW1. He received the Medal of Honor for an honorable attack in the Argonne-Offensive where he took over 32 machine guns, killed 28 germans and rescued 132 allies. -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
The Battle of the Argonne Forest is the last and biggest offensive in WW1. The Americans suffered 117000 casualties while the frenchs had 70000 and the germans 100000. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919. It was the treaty after WW1 that was supposed to prevent a future war. But it gave a special punishment to Germany that may have been on reason for WW2. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
Harding's "Return to Normalcy" was a return to a way of living as prior to the WW1. The term will be very important for the 1920 Election because Harding won the election with 60 % of the votes. -
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The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl is the also known as dirty Thirties. The draught and wrong agriculture including bad water management on the Great Plains made soil dry and created dust storms that made the 30s very horrible for farmers on the Great Plains. -
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the social, cultural and artistic explosion that took place after WW1 in Harlem, New York. Many artists, black writers and musicians tried to make a change with their work. Also the time when jazz really started to make its name. -
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Red Scare
The Red Scare is the promotion of fear that the communism could rise in America and be and issue for workers and people. The idea was that communism is trying to take down the US and that socialism will destroy labor. -
Langston Hughes
Langston was a famous activist and poet during the time of jazz. Partly because he was the leader of the Harlem Renaissance and he wrote popular books. In 1923 he published a poet called "My people" and it was adressed to fight for equality. -
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh was suddenly famous all over the world because of his long-distance flight to France from New York in 1927. That is a distance of 3600 miles and he won an award for that. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression is known as the biggest, deepest depression in the history. It started with the falling prices in the stock market and then the actual Stock Market Crash. It only really ended because of WW2.
During that time many people were without employment and all the businesses were down to the bottom. Many were poor and/ or homeless. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt won the president election the first time. He is a Democrat that won the elections four times in a row until his death. He is famous for his New Deal Program and led America during the Great Depression. -
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The New Deal
The New Deal was a program established by FDR that should help to solve the big economic and social problems of the Great Depression. FDR together with the Democrats created many Acts and programs that are certainly still used in today's society, just with slight differences. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was one of the few photographers during the "Great Depression" that captured the suffer of the poor. In 1935 she worked for the RA and FSA to show how the poor lived during that time.