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John J. Pershing
The general in the United States Army, who led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War I.. -
Glenn Curtiss
American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry -
Franklin D Rooosevelt
Served as 32 President of the US-- also political leader. -
Marcus Garvey
Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism -
Alvin York
He was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. -
Dorothea Lange.
American documentary photographer and photojournalist -
Langston Hughes
An American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. -
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist -
Sussex Pledge
promise given by the German Government to the United States of America on May 4th 1916 -
The Great Migration
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 -
Battle of Argonne Forest
Part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front -
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. -
Jazz music
A style of music that was especially popular in the 1920s -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929 -
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 -
The Dust Bowl
Period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US -
The New Deal
Series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 -
Red Scare
Promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents.
