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John J. Pershing
John Pershing was born September 13, 1816. Pershing was a military leader from the region of Northeast Missouri. He is was most famous for serving as a commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War 1. The troops helped defeat the Central Powers in 1918. He later became the rank of a "General of the Armies of the United States” in 1919. -
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Glenn H. Curtiss
Glenn H. Curtiss was born May 21, 1878. Curtiss was constructed in 1925 for his aviation pioneer who established his own airplane company before becoming the developer of Miami Springs, Florida. Curtiss was overall a business man. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his second term as governor of New York when he was elected as the nation’s 32nd president in 1932. During the time of the Great Depression. Roosevelt was the only American president in history to be elected four times. -
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Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was the leader of the largest organizer for the movement in black history and progenitor of the modern Black Is Beautiful revival that reached its climax in 1960s and 1970s in the United States. Garvey was a kind of political redeemer as well. -
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Alvin York
Alvin York was a corporal, who was reportedly killed over 20 German soldiers and captured 132. Later he earned the Congressional Medal of Honor. -
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Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was a photographer. The photos placed at farmers during the Great Depression. Which greatly influenced later on in the documentary photography. Lange took photos of unemployed men with captions of statements from the men. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1940 and was established as a skilled documentary photographer, in 1934. -
Jazz music
Jazz music started in the late 19th centuries and is still around to the day. It was most likely born in the North. Jazz was a lot like Blues, both music types was through emotions and their culture. America was captivated. Creativity grew and inspired people. -
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers, during the 1920s. When the African America artistic movement occurred. Hughes literary works helped shaped American literature and politics. This was during the year named “Harlem Renaissance. -
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Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh was the first to travel a nonstop flight on May 21, 1927. This was a 33 hour trip from New York to Paris. Lindbergh soon became a hero when arriving to his designation. -
The Great Migration
This was from 1916-1970. Relocated more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West; it had a huge impact on urban life in the United States. Blacks was driven from their homes because of the economic and segregationist laws, but found work during WW1. They built a new place for themselves and involved themselves with the economic, politics, and social challenges. Creating a new black urban culture. -
Sussex Pledge
A German U-boat submarine attacked the French passenger steamer Sussex, in the English Channel, thinking it was a British ship equipped to lay explosive mines. The German government promised to stop the indiscriminate sinking of non-military ships. -
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The Battle of the Argonne Forest
The Battle of the Argonne Forest was started and the attacked launched on September 26, 1918. The battle was part of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive planned by General Ferdinand Foch. The battle was also know for the Lost Battalion, because of the many loses. It ended November 11, 1918. -
treaty of versailles
World War 1 officially need with this signing and on this date. Germany agreed to pay reparations under the Dawes Plan and the Young Plan, but those plans were cancelled in 1932, and Hitler’s rise power and subsequent actions rendered moot the remaining terms of the treaty. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
Since the plan of Wilson’s ended in failure to create a new world order the Republicans grew and promised a "Return to Normalcy.” Warren G. Harding’s won the election of 1920 by a landslide on the promise of “Return to Normalcy.” The promise cased progressive reforms and instead aimed to settle into traditional patterns of government. Harding died in 1923. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was in 1929-1939. The Depression was the longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. It began soon after the stock market crashed in 1929, which sent Wall Street into panic and wiped out millions of investors. It raised high levels of unemployment. Actually, the banks and government was the cause because the banks did not give the money back to the people and the government did not help the banks. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a drought in 1930s the depression-ridden America. The drought struck from 1934 to 1937 the soil lacked the stronger root system of grass as an anchor, winds easily picked up, and dense dust clouds. The Dust Bowl could burn cattle and humans, because of the heat. It drove 60 percent of the population from the region. Those who left when in the Far West. -
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance was the name given to culture, social, and artistic, which took place in Harlem. It began in the end of WW1 and the middle of the 1930s. So around 1919-1929. This was the year when artistic people came out such as, artist, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars, An editor of "THE CRISTS” magazine published many poets poems, stories, and artist visual works during this period. -
The New Deal
The government instituted a series of experimental projects and programs called the New Deal. It aimed to restore some measure of dignity ad prosperity to many Americans. The Roosevelt New Deal changed the federal government’s relationship to the U.S. populace. -
Red Scare
Red Scare started in the late 1940s to early 1950s. Know as “Reds,” because for the red Soviet flag. This led to a range of actions that had profound and enduring effect on U.S. government and society. It made employees question the government, but it finally began to ease by the late 1950s.
