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John J. Pershing
U.S army general John J. Pershing commanded the
American Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War 1. He was born in 1860 and died in 1948. After the war, Pershing served as Army chief of staff from 1921 to 1924. -
Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Curtiss is an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S indutry. He was born in 1878 and died in 1930. Curitss is remembered to this day as the Father of Naval Aviation and the founder of the American Aircraft industry. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd President of the U.S. He was preident during the Great Depression and he helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He was born 1882 and died in 1945. -
Alvin York
United States Corporal, Alvin C. York reportedly killed 20 German soldiers and captures an additional 132 at the head of a small detachment in the Argonne Forest near France. The exploits later earned York the Congressional medal of honor. He was born in 1887 and died in 1964. -
Marcus Garvey
Marus Garvey was a proponent of the Black Natinalism and Pan-American movements, inspiring the nation of Islam and the Rastafarian movement.He was born in 1887 and he died in 1940. -
Dorothea Lange
She has been called known as America's greatest documentary photographer. She is best known for the chronincles of the Great Depression and migratory of farm workers. She was born in 1895 and died in 1965. -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was a American poet novelist, and playwright whose African American themes made him a primary contributer of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's. He was born in 1902 and he died in 1967. -
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh was an American Aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 21, 1927. He was born in 1902 and died in 1974. -
The Great Migration
A movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural southern United States to the urban Northeast -
Sussex Pledge
A promise given by the German Government to the United States of America on May 4, 1916 in repsonse to US demands relating to the conduct of World War 1. -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
A part of the final Allied offensive of World War 1 that stretched along the entire Western front. -
Treaty of Versailles
One of the peace treaties at the end of World War 1. It ended the state of war between Germany and the allied Powers. -
Red Scare
The promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftism proponents -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
A failed effort to ratify the League of Nations, economic stagnation and the failing Presidency of Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding ran for president on a promise to return the nation to a better sense of normalcy. -
The Great Depression
It was deepest and long-lasting economic downturn in history of the Western industrialized world. It began soon after the stock market crash of october 1929. -
Harlem Reniassance
The name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War 1 and the middle of the 1930's. -
The Dust Bowl
A period of severe dust storms greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and canadiann praires during the 1940. Severe drought and a filaure to apply dryland farming methods. -
The New Deal
A series of domestic programs enacted in the U nited States between 1933 and 1938, and few that came later. They included both laws passed by congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term -
Jazz Music
A genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century. It emerged in many parts of the United States of indeoendent popujlar muical styles.
