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Dorothea Lange
She was a great photographer that took photos of migratory farm workers during the Great Depression. This was important as she showed people what these people were going through. She influenced documentary photography. -
Jazz Music
a famous genre during this time phrase due to the Harlem Renaissance. -
Glenn Curtis
Founded the AEA, and on the third flight he won the Scientific American Trophy for “June Bug” on this day.
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The Great Migration
It was the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915 and 1960. During the initial wave the majority of migrants moved to major northern cities. -
Sussex Pledge
The promise that Germany would alter their naval and submarine policy of unrestricted submarine warfare and stop the indiscriminate sinking of non-military ships. -
John J. Pershing
US Army General commanded the AEF during WW1. -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
The Battle of the Argonne Forest is a part of the final Allied offensive of WW1. It stretched along the entire western front. It lasted from September 26, 1918 until the Armistice on November 11, 1918. -
Alvin York
Great American who fought in the Battle of Argonnev. Led a group of soldiers against the German enemy and took 132 hostages. -
Harlem Renaissance
A time period that started after the end of WW1 and went until the mid 1930's. It got its name because it was a cultural, social and artistic explosion, that took place in Harlem. -
Red Scare
The promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism that is used by anti-feftist proponents. -
Treaty of Versailes
It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers with a lot of costs and treaties for Germany, including the blame to Germany for the whole WW1. -
Marcus Garvey
A civil rights activist that founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association. The association was promoted African Americans and the resettlement of Africa. He was considered Jamaica's first hero. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
Won the Presidential Election in 1920 with a promise of "returning to normalcy" to the United States who were wary from war. This ended in 1923 after Hardings death. -
Charles Lindbergh
Created an airplane that flew by Paris. First to fly non-stop across the Atlantic, and considered a hero. He helped create the perfusion pump. He did many things involving commerical and military aviation. -
The Great Depression
A time where the market crashed, and everyone went broke. It was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. -
The Dust Bowl
This occurred at the same time as the Great Depression, and made farmland wastelands as most of the soil had been uprooted from constant use of the farmers. -
The New Deal
The New Deal is a series of economic measures defined to avelliate the worst effects of the Great Depression. On March 4 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt took the oath of office to become 32nd presiden of the US. He had a solution for the crises hat the Great Depression caused. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
the 32nd president in office, and the only one who was elected 4 times. He led the United States through The Great Depression using different programs and reforms called the New Deal. -
Langston Hughes
An activist in social civilization and practically invented “Jazz Poetry.” He wrote many plays and took action in the American Peace Mobilization in 1940 in order to stop America from going in to World War II.
