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Glenn Curtiss
He was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S aircraft industry. In 1908 Curtiss joined the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), a pioneering research group, -
jazz music
Is a genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century. 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 -
Sussex Pledge
was a promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States prior to the latter's entry into the war. the United States would break diplomatic relations with Germany. Fearing the entry of the United States into World War I, Germany attempted to appease the United States by issuing, on May 4, 1916, the Sussex pledge, which promised a change in Germany's naval warfare policy. -
The Great Migration
relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970,Driven from their homes by unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws, many blacks headed north, where they took advantage of the need for industrial workers that first arose during the First World War -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
Was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought from September 26, 1918, until the Armistice on November 11, a total of 47 days. The battle was the largest in United States military history, involving 1.2 million American soldiers, and was one of a series of Allied attacks known as the Hundred Days Offensive, which brought the war to an end. The Meuse-Argonne was the principal engagement of the American Expeditionary Forces du -
Red Scare
A 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. The Second Red Scare was focused on national and foreign communists influencing society, infiltrating the federal government, or both. -
Marcus Garvey
Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, He founded the Black Star Line, which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands. -
Treaty of Versailles
Was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I were dealt with in separate treaties. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
was the 29th President of the United States , a Republican from Ohio who served in the Ohio Senate and then in the United States Senate,Harding was chosen as an inoffensive compromise candidate in the 1920 election. He promised America a "return to normalcy" after World War I, with an end to violence and radicalism, a strong economy, and independence from European intrigues. -
John J. Pershing
commanded the expediatonary force in Europe during the WW1, he served in the spanish and the pilippine wars, after that he served as army chief of staff. -
Langston Hughes
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. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. First published in The Crisis in 1921, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. The intent of the Act was to encourage Other nations increased tariffs on American-made goods in retaliation, reducing international trade, and worsening the Depression. -
Harlem Renaissance
was 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. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A Democrat, he won a record four elections and served from March 1933 to his death in April 1945. He was a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. A dominant leader of the Democratic Party, he built a New Deal Coalition that realigned American politics after 1932, as his New Deal domestic policies defined American liberalism for the middle third of the 20th century. -
The New Deal
was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933–37) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. -
Dorothea Lange
was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. -
The Dust Bow
Was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; Many families were forced to leave their farms and travel to other areas seeking work because of the drought (which at that time had already lasted four years).[Dust Bowl conditions fomented an exodus of the displaced from Texas, Oklahoma, and the surrounding Great Plains to adjacent regions. More than 500,000 Americans were left homeless. -
Charles Lindbergh
was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.Although Lindbergh was a leader in the antiwar America First movement, he nevertheless strongly supported the war effort after Pearl Harbor and flew 50 combat missions in the Pacific Theater of World War II as a civilian consultant, though President Franklin D. -
Alvin York
know as the greatest (american) heroe of the WW1, he avoided profiting from his war record before 1939. He reportedly kills over 20 german soldiers and captures and aditional 132 in the Argone Forest.
