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Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Curtiss was born on May 21, 1878.
He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder.
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Dorothea Lange
She was an American documentary , good photographer, she took photos during the migratory farm workers, who was very influental on the American people. She also was a photojournalist.
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, and playwright whose African-American themes made him a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. -
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh was writer, inventor, and plot. He became famous for making the first solo transatlantic airplane flight in 1927. -
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. During the initial wave the majority of migrants moved to major northern cities. This was important due to it happening after the civil war and during the World War 1. -
Sussex Pledge
This pledge was the promise that Germany would 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
U.S Army General John J Pershing was given command over the American Expeditionary Force(AEF) during World War 1. He earned this role due to being friends with Theodore Roosevelt and marital connections. -
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
Born in Tennessee, York was considered a great American hero for the Battle of Argonne. He led a small group of soldiers against the German enemy, and ended up taking 132 hostage as a result. Alvin C. York reportedly kills over 20 German soldiers and captures an additional 132 at the head of a small detachment in the Argonne Forest near the Meuse River in France. -
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance is a time period that started after the end of WW1 and went until the mid 1930's. It has ots name because it was a cultural, social and artistic explosion, that took place in Harlem. -
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Red Scare
Red Scale is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism that is used by anti-feftist proponents. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles is one of the peace treaties at the end of WW1. 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. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
"Return To Normalcy" is a poltical campaign promise, made by Warren G, Harding for the election. It was made on May 14, 1920 in Boston. The promise said that the people will go back to the way of life how it was before WW1. -
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The Great Depression
Was a time where the market crashed, and everyone went broke. was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. -
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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. Big dust storms occurred, and even reached the cities that were as far as New York CIty. -
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. He invented the New Deal, which started with the Banking Act of 1933 on March 9. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt was 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. -
Jazz
Jazz became a famous genre during this time phrase due to the Harlem Renaissance. Many say that it began when Louis Armstrong was born. Others say otherwise.
