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John J. Pershing
was the general in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War I, 1917-18. -
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Warren G. Harding
was the 29th President of the United States, a Republican from Ohio who served in the Ohio Senate and then in the United States Senate, where he played a minor role -
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Glenn Curtiss
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. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States -
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Marcus Garvey
as a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism -
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Alvin York
known also by his rank, Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. -
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Dorothea Lange
was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration -
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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. -
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Charles Lindbergh
was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist -
jazz music
a genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century. -
The Great Migration
of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970, had a huge impact on urban life in the United States -
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 First World War. -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
was part of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive planned by General Ferdinand Foch. The offensive called for a three-pronged attack on the Germans at the Western Front -
Red Scare
is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. -
Treaty of Versailles
Negotiated among the Allied powers with little participation by Germany, its 15 parts and 440 articles reassigned German boundaries and assigned liability for reparations -
The Great Depression
was the deepest and 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 -
The New Deal
was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. -
The Dust Bowl
the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. The 150,000-square-mile area, encompassing the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring sections of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, has little rainfall, light soil, and high winds, a potentially destructive combination -
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.
