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Dorothea Lange
She was a great photographer that took photos of migratory farm workers during the Great Depression. This was important as she showed people what these people were going through. She influenced documentary photography. -
Jazz Music
Jazz became a famous genre during this time phrase due to the Harlem Renaissance. Many say that it began when Louis Armstrong was born. Others say otherwise. -
Glenn Curtiss
Curtiss was a bicycle racer, a motorcyclist, and an airship crafter. He founded the AEA, Aerial Experiment Association, and on the third of many flights he won the Scientific American Trophy for “June Bug” on this day. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was 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. This was important due to it happening after the civil war and during the World War 1. -
Sussex Pledge
This pledge was the promise that Germany would alter their naval and submarine policy of unrestricted submarine warfare and stop the indiscriminate sinking of non-military ships. Instead, Merchant Ships would be searched and sunk only if they contained contraband, and then only after safe passage had been provided for the crew and passengers. -
John J Pershing
U.S Army General John J Pershing was given command over the American Expeditionary Force(AEF) during World War 1. He earned this role due to being friends with Theodore Roosevelt and marital connections. -
Battle of Argonne Forest
This was the last battle of World War 1 where a small group of American soldiers led by General John Pershing managed to take German soldiers hostage. -
Alvin York
Born in Tennessee, York was considered a great American hero for the Battle of Argonne. He led a small group of soldiers against the German enemy, and ended up taking 132 hostage as a result. -
Marcus Garvey
Garvey was a civil rights activist that founded the Universal Negroe Improvement Association. THis association's dedication was to promoting African Americans and the resettlement of Africa. He was considered Jamaica's first hero. -
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. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
Warren G. Harding won the Presidential Election in 1920 with a promise of "returning to normalcy" to the United States who were wary from war. This ended in 1923 after Hardings death. There was mainly corruption going on in the office, so there was no real hope. -
Harlem Renaissance
This was a movement that invloved African Americans who became involved in music, literature, and art. This influenced future black writers. The intent of the movement, however, was not political but aesthetic. It helped African American's in group expresssion. -
Charles Lindberg
Charles Lindbergh had created an airplane which he flew to a place near Paris. He was the first to fly non-stop across the Atlantic, and considered a hero. He helped create the perfusion pump which would help surgeons in later on years perform organ transplants and open heart surgery. He did many things involving commerical and military aviation. -
The Great Depression
THis was a time where the market crashed, and everyone went broke. was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Many people lost their jobs and banks failed. -
The New Deal
When President Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted swiftly to try and stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering. Over the next eight years, the government instituted a series of experimental projects and programs, known collectively as the New Deal, that aimed to restore some measure of dignity and prosperity to many Americans. -
Franklin D Roosevelt
Roosevelt was the 32nd president in office, and the only one who was elected 4 times. He led the United States through The Great Depression using different programs and reforms called the New Deal. -
The Dust Bowl
This occurred at the same time as the Great Depression, and made farmland wastelands as most of the soil had been uprooted from constant use of the farmers. Big dust storms occurred, and even reached the cities that were as far as New York CIty. -
Red Scare
As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare. This led to federal members being questioned on their loyalty to their government. -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was an activist in social civilization and practically invented “Jazz Poetry.” He wrote many plays and took action in the American Peace Mobilization in 1940 in order to stop America from going in to World War II.
