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John J. Pershing
John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing, 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 died on July 15, 1948. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
Returning to the way of life before World War I. He states, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality". He died on August 2, 1923. -
Glenn Curtiss
Was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles. As early as 1904, he began to manufacture engines for airships. He died on July 23, 1930. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
An American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States. He is commonly known as FDR, his initials. He died on April 12, 1945. -
Marcus Garvey
Was an Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator.He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. He also funded Black Star Line, which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands. He died on 10 June 1940. -
Alvin York
Known also by his rank, Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. He earned the medal of honor for leading an attack on a german machine gun nest. He died on September 2, 1964. -
Dorothea Lange
An influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. She died on October 11, 1965. -
Jazz misic
A genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century. -
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. He died on May 22, 1967. -
Charles Lindbergh
Was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. He had multiple nicknames for example Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle. When he flew a distance of 5,800 km from the Roosevelt Field in Garden City in New York’s Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France in a single-seat, single-engine monoplane he gained instantaneous world fame and won the Orteig Prize. He died on August 26, 1974. -
The Great Migration
The movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West. It ended in 1970. -
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. -
Red Scare
The promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. It ended in 1920. -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
This was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It didn't end until the Armistice on November 11. -
Treaty of Versailles
One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
The Great Depression
It sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment as failing companies laid off workers. From 13 to 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of the country’s banks had failed. It ended in 1939. -
Harlem Renaissance
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. -
The Dust Bowl
A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. It was also know as the Dirty Thirties. -
The New Deal
A series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938.
