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John J. Pershing
He was a general in the United States Army. He also led the AEF to victory durin World War I. He was a mentor and was the only general who promoted his whole life to the general armies. -
Warren G. Harding
He promised america a return to normalcy after WWI. He was the 29th president of the U.S. Warren passed away in 1923 -
Glenn Curtiss
Glenn was an American aviation pioneer. He was also the fouder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He passeda away in 1930. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He served as the U.S. 23rd president. He was in officefrom 1933 to 1945. He passed away in 1945. -
Marcus Garvey Jr.
Marcus was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He stood for black nationalism and pan-africanism. MArcus passed away in 1940 -
Alvin York
He was also known as "Seargent York". He was seargent that fought in WWI. Alvin received a medal of honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest. He passed away in 1964. -
Dorothea Lange
She worked a lot for the depression era. Dorothea worked in the FSA she helped take pictures of the great depression to help influencethe photography industry. She passed away in 1965. -
Langston Hughes
Langston was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was well known for his jazz poetry, a leader of Harlem Renaissance. And he was famous from writing on the period called "the negro was in vogue". Passed away in 1967. -
Jazz Music
Music that originated in African American communites. It was used as a feeling of hope and uprise from a difficult time during depression and hard times. Jazz music is known as hard to define. -
The Great Migration
This was a movement of 6 million African Americans out of rural areas to urban areas. -
Sussex Pledge
This was a promise made during WWI from Germany to the US. The Sussex, was torpedoed without warning on March 24, 1916. -
Red Scare
This is the spreading of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. The first Red Scare was from 1918 to 1920. The first Red Scare started after and by following the Bolshevik Russian Revolution of 1917. -
Battle of the argonne forest
This was the last/final allied offensive of WWI. This battle ended November 11th 1918. -
Treaty of Versailles
This was a peace treaty signed at the end of WWI. This ended the war between Germany snd the Allied Powers. It was printed in the League of Nations Treaty Series. -
The Great Depession
This was a bad economic time for the people after WWI. -
Harlem Renaissance
During this time it was known as the "New negro movement". This was the moving of African Amercian cultural expessions across urban areas. -
the Dust Bowl
This was a time period of very servere dust storms. This damaged much property and other things in the US. Most of all it dried out a lot of the farm lands causing money issues and economic problems. This drought came 3 times. -
The New Deal
This was a time period where many new domestic programs started up in the years between 1933 and 1938. These were after the Great depression. They all focused on relief, recovery, and reform. Which is what was needed at this time after the great depression.
