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John J. Pershing
John J. Pershing was born on this day, He was the United States General who lead the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War I, -
Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH, was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, -
Alvin York
York, was the most decorated man from World War 1. He was born on this day. -
Dorothea Lange
an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration -
Langston Hughes
He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry -
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. -
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 - See more at: http://www.blackpast.org/aah/great-migration-1915-1960#sthash.jGAUx57R.dpuf -
Sussex Pledge
Germany Promiced the US that they would stop Submarine Warfare, and unrrestricted following of Merchant ships. -
Red Scare
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. -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
a Big battle that was fought until november 11th, it proved the streangth of the army. -
Treaty of Versailles
This treaty ultimatly ended WW1 -
Return To Normalcy
a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920. -
The Great Depression
The great depression was a crazy time in American History because unemployment rates were so high that it caused alot of above average people to go into a big state of depression -
Harlem Renaissance
This era started up in the 1930's. the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. -
The Dust Bowl
The dust bowl was a long series of years of nothing but drought and dust blowing around all over the place ruining crops and messing up farmers, leaving no resources to give to cities. It was ll through the 1930's -
jazz music
Jazz Music has been around for a very long time, like late 19th century, but it didnt start blowing up untill after the big WW2. It blew up in the 50s -
The New Deal
FDR decided to start piking up what was being thrown down and make it better then ever, making new companys and associations to help out the average american
