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Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Curtiss was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. As early as 1904, he began to manufacture engines for airships. In 1908 Curtiss joined the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), a pioneering research group, founded by Alexander Graham Bell at Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia to build flying machines. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was a leader in the black nationalist movement. After arriving in New York in 1916, he founded the Negro World newspaper, an international shipping company called Black Star Line and the Negro Factories Corporation. During the 1920s, his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was the largest secular organization in African-American history. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North.Driven from their homes by unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws, many blacks headed north, where they took advantage of the need for industrial workers that first arose during the First World War. -
Sussex Pledge
The Sussex Pledge was a promise given by the German Government to the United States of America on May 4th 1916 in response to US demands relating to the conduct of the 1st world war. Germany promised to alter their naval and submarine policy of unrestricted submarine warfare and stop the indiscriminate sinking of non-military ships. Instead, Merchant Ships would be searched and sunk only if they contained contraband, and then only after safe passage had been provided for the crew and passengers. -
John J. Pershing
John J. Pershing was a U.S. Army general who commanded the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in Europe during World War I. He served in the Spanish- and Philippine-American Wars and was tasked to lead a punitive raid against the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson selected Pershing to command the American troops being sent to Europe. -
Alvin York
He was born onDecember 13, 1887 in a two-room dogtrot log cabin in Pall Mall, Tennessee, and raised in a rural backwater in the northern section of Fentress County. He was drafted in 1917. He never traveled more than fifty miles from his home, York's war experience served as an epiphany awakening him to a more complex world -
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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. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. Many had come from the South, fleeing its oppressive caste system in order to find a place where they could freely express their talents. -
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
The Battle of the Argonne Forest was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire western front. The whole offensive was planned by Marshall Ferdinand Foch to breach the Hindenburg line and ultimately force the opposing German forces to surrender. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties that ended World War I. 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
Throughout the 1920s, jazz music evolved into an integral part of American popular culture.The effect of jazz music upon society can be depicted through a close examination of different aspects of popular culture. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
"Return to Normalcy" is what Warren Harding advertised during his presidential campaign in the aftermath of World War I—it meant an end to wars in Europe and an end to reforms taking place in the United States. -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was a poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. -
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh was an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Other pilots had crossed the Atlantic before him, but Charles Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment as failing companies laid off workers. -
The New Deal
The New Deal programs helped all Americans and gave jobs to millions of people. The Social Security Act provides money to people who are over 65 years old or who have disabilities. The New Deal made regulations to try to prevent another epression. Federal bank regulations protect people’s savings accounts. Another regulation protects workers by setting a national minimum wage. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his second term as governor of New York when he was elected as the nation’s 32nd president in 1933. With the country mired in the depths of the Great Depression. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange is best known for her chronicles of the Great Depression and for her photographs of migratory farm workers. Below are 42 pre-World War II photographs she created for the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) investigating living conditions of farm workers and their families in Western states such as California. -
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The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the it. -
Red Scare
s the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940,hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare.
