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John J. Pershing
U.S. Army general John J. Pershing (1860-1948) commanded the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in Europe during World War I. The president and first captain of the West Point class of 1886.
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Warren G. Harding’s
He was the 29th President of the United States. to publicize his presidential appearance and conservative promises. He promised America a "return to normalcy" after World War I, with an end to violence and radicalism, a strong economy, and independence from European intrigues. -
Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles. As early as 1904, he began to manufacture engines for airships. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A Democrat, he won a record four elections and served from March 1933 to his death in April 1945. He was a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist,entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL).[2] He founded the Black Star Line, which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands. -
Alvin York
He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gunnest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers, and capturing 132 others. -
Dorothea Lange
She was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. -
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. -
Charles Lindbergh
He was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. Lindbergh emerged suddenly from virtual obscurity to instantaneous world fame as the result of hisOrteig Prize-winning solo nonstop flight on May 20–21, 1927, made from the Roosevelt Field. -
Jazz Music
Begins around 1912. Jazz is a genre of music that originated in African-American communities. Jazz emerged in many parts of the United States of independent popular musical styles; Louis Armstrong is consider the best jazz singer. -
Sussex Pledge
Germany had instituted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning. Despite this avowed restriction, a French cross-channel passenger ferry, the Sussex, was torpedoed without warning. -
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The Great Migration
The migration moved more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West of the United States. -
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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 and the middle of the 1930s. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. -
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
The battle was the largest in United States military history, involving 1.2 million American soldiers, and was one of a series of Allied attacks known as the Hundred Days Offensive. -
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The first 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 (socialist) revolution and political radicalism. -
Treaty of Versailles
It was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
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The Great Depression
It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. -
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The New Deal
They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. -
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The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of theUS and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. -
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The second Red Scare
The second one was popularly known as "McCarthyism" after its most famous supporter,Senator Joseph McCarthy.
