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John J. Pershing
John J. Pershing was an American general in the US Army, who led the American Expeditionary forces to victory as they were fighting against Germany in WW1. He was born on September, 2 1860. -
Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Curtiss was born on May 21, 1878 He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder. In 1904 he started to manufacture engines for airships. Nowadays he is known as an American aviation pioneer and founder of the US aircraft industry. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He was an American statesman and political leader, who was born on January 30, 1882. He served as the 32nd US president. -
Marcus Garvey
He was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur and orator. Marcus Garvey was a strong proponent for Black nationalism and Pan African Movements. He was born on August 17, 1887. -
Alvin C. York
Alvin C. York is also very known for his rank Sergeant York. He was one of the most decorated soldiers that were fighting WW1. He was born on December 13, 1887. -
Dorothea Lange
She was an American documentary photographer, who was very influental on the American people. She also was a photojournalist.
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Jazz Music - Louis Armstrong
I took the example of Louis Armstrong as a event in jazz music, because he is known as the " Jazz Original". He was born in August 4, 1901 and is one of the most influental artists in jazz music. Jazz music was first discovered in the 1800's. Today there are still a lot of artists in jazz music and people still like to listen to it. This kind of music was born in the south as an African-American devived music. It is about the pain of lost love and injustice. -
Langston Hughes
He was a poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist. Also he was one of the earliest innovaters of the then-new literally art. -
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer and social activist. -
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The Great Migration
The Great Migration was a mass movement of about 5 million southern blacks to north and west of the US. -
Sussex Pledge
The Sussex Pledge is a promise given by the German Government to the USA on May 4, 1916. It said that it would alter their naval and submarine policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. -
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. -
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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
The first Red Scare was from 1918 to 1920. 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 Article 231 which gave Germany the blame for the whole WW1. -
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
The Great Depresson was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the Western industrialist world. It started after the stock market crash in October, 1929. After that there was a huge drop of consumer spending and investement, which led to steep declines in the industrial output and to raising unemployment. In 1933 there were about 13-15 million unemployed Americans. It lasted until the WW2 kicked the American industry into higher gear. -
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The Dust Bowl - "The Dirty Thirties"
The Dust Bowl was a period of serere dust storms that greatly damaged ecology and agriculture during the 1930's. The Dust Bowl prompted a cultural response from artists like Dorothea Lange, Woody Guthrie, and John Steinbeck, who lamented the American economic ethos that had created the disaster. -
The New Deal - Banking Act of 1933
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.
