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Red Scare
is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism. -
John J. Pershing
This was the date that Pershing was born; he was the general in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War I, 1917-18. He rejected British and French demands that American forces be integrated with their armies, and insisted that the AEF would operate as a single unit under his command when it was large enough -
Glenn Curtiss
an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. -
Franklin D. Roosevelr
He was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States. -
Marcus Garvey
a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements to which he founded Universal Negro Improvement Assocation and African Communitites Leaque -
Alvin York
This was the date that York was born; he was 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. -
Jazz music
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 -
Langston Hughes
He 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 -
Charles Lindbergh
Charles was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist -
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Harlem Renaissance
An African-American cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem, that celebrated black traditions, the black voice, and black ways of life. -
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The Great Migration
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 such as Chicago, Illiniois, Detroit, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New York, New York. By World War II the migrants continued to move North but many of them headed west to Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, California, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. -
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. Early in 1915, Germany had instituted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, Allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning. -
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. -
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
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Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
Warren G. Hardings
was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920. Although detractors believed that the word was a neologism as well as a malapropism coined by Harding (as opposed to the more accepted term normality), there was contemporary discussion and evidence found that normalcy had been listed in dictionaries as far back as 1857. -
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The Great Depression
On Black Tuesday, October 24, 1929, the stock market crashed, triggering the Great Depression, the worst economic collapse in the history of america. -
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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, affecting an area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas -
The New Deal
The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. That is Relief for the unemployed and poor; Recovery of the economy to normal levels; and Reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression. -
Dorothea Lange
An influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration.
