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John J. Pershing
the general in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War I, Pershing is the only American to be promoted in his own lifetime to General of the Armies -
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jazz music
a genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century. Jazz emerged in many parts of the United States of independent popular musical styles; linked by the common bonds of European American and African-American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz spans a range of music from ragtime to the present day—a period of over 100 years—and has proved to be very difficult to define. Jazz makes heavy use of improvisation. -
Glenn Curtiss
an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. Started career as bicycle racer and builder and slowly moved to building motorcycles. By an act of Congress on March 1, 1933, Curtiss was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross -
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The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915 and 1960 -
Sussex Pledge
a promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States prior to the latter's entry into the war. -
Marcus Garvey
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) On 9 May 1916, he held his first public lecture in New York City at St Mark's Church in-the-Bowery and undertook a 38-state speaking tour. -
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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. -
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The Red Scare
There were two periods of The Red Scare, once from 1918-1920 and then again in 1947-1950. The first Red Scare began following the Bolshevik Russian Revolution of 1917 and the intensely patriotic years of World War I as anarchist and left-wing social agitation aggravated national, social, and political tensions. The second Red Scare occurred after World War II (1939–45), and was popularly known as "McCarthyism" after its most famous supporter, Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
he Meuse-Argonne Offensive, also known as the Maas-Argonne Offensive and 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. It was fought from September 26, 1918, until the Armistice on November 11, a total of 47 days. -
Alvin York
one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I, He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers, and capturing 132 others. -
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. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
A return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920. -
Charles Lindbergh
An American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. Lindbergh emerged suddenly from virtual obscurity to instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo nonstop flight on May 20–21, 1927, made from the Roosevelt Field[N 1] in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km), in the single-seat, single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis. -
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The Great Depression
a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. There were multiple causes for the first downturn in 1929. These include the structural weaknesses and specific events that turned it into a major depression and the manner in which the downturn spread from country to country. -
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The Dust Bowl
Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. As the crops die, the “black blizzards” begin. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blow. -
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The New Deal
a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (response of the Great Depression) -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States, he won a record four elections and served from March 1933 to his death in April 1945. He built a New Deal Coalition that realigned American politics after 1932, as his New Deal domestic policies defined American liberalism for the middle third of the 20th century. -
Dorothea Lange
an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) -
Langston Hughes
n 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.
