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John J. Pershing
This was the date that Pershing was born; he was the general in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War I, 1917-18. He rejected British and French demands that American forces be integrated with their armies, and insisted that the AEF would operate as a single unit under his command when it was large enough -
Glenn Curtis
an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States. -
Marcus Garvey
a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements to which he founded Universal Negro Improvement Assocation and African Communitites Leaque -
Alvin York
This was the date that York was born; he was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers, and capturing 132 others. -
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 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 -
Charles Lindbergh
Charles was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist -
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The great migration
The Great Migration, or the 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, had a huge impact on urban life in the United States. -
Sussex Pledge
The Sussex Pledge was a promise given by the German Government to the United States of America on May 4th 1916 in response to US demands relating to the conduct of the First World War. -
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 -
Battle Of Argonne Forest
Battle Of 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. -
Treaty of Versailles
The 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. -
Jazz Music
The Jazz age started in the 1920's! It was a time when jazz was blooming -- jazz is a genre of music that originated in African-American communities -
Warren "G" Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
Boston, MA
A return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise that assisted him in winning. "by a landslide" -
The Great Depression
On Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed, triggering the Great Depression, the worst economic collapse in the history of the modern -
Harlem Renaissance
The 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.
