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Unit 4 Key Terms Research

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  • Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”

    Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
    a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920. Although detractors believed that the word was a neologism as well as a malapropism coined by Harding.
  • John J.Pershing

    John J.Pershing
    John was general officer in the US Army who led the American expeditionary forces in WWI.Hes Nickname is ''Black Man''
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States. A Democrat, he won a record four elections and served from March 1933 to his death in April 1945. He was a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.
  • Marcus Garvey

    Marcus Garvey
    Marcus was Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist and ran his own buiness and was founded by the negro improvement association.Ended up getting promoted
  • Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange
    was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography.
  • jazz music

    jazz music
    Jazz is a genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century. Jazz emerged in many parts of the United States of independent popular musical styles; linked by the common bonds of European American and African-American musical parentage with a performance orientation
  • Alvin C.York

    Alvin C.York
    Alvin was one of the most decorative soldiers in the united states helping others killing 28 russian soldiers and finding weapons during war.
  • Glenn Curtiss

    Glenn Curtiss
    Glenn is a American Pioneer of the aircraft industry.He began building motorcycles and bikes.in early age he began building airships and crafts. Which led him to being a pioneer.
  • The Great Migration

    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

    Sussex Pledge
    The 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. Early in 1915, Germany had instituted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare,[1] allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning. Despite this avowed restriction, a French cross-channel passenger ferry
  • Harlem Renaissance

    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.
  • Red Scare

    Red Scare
    A Red Scare is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism.
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    The Treaty of Versailles (French: Traité de 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.
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  • Battle of the Argonne Forest

    Battle of the Argonne Forest
    The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, also known as the Maas-Argonne Offensive and the Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front.
  • Charales Lindbergh

    Charales Lindbergh
    Charles was a american aviator, author, explorer, and great man.
    he was the first person in history to be in new york one day and paris in the next.He was awarded military highest decoration.
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression
    The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s.[1] It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century.[2]
  • The Dust Bowl

    The Dust Bowl
    The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.
  • Langston Hughes

    Langston Hughes
    Langston Was a american poet, novelist, playwright,social activist.He was one of the earliest innovators of the then new literacy innovators.He is best known for his great work being leader of the harlem renassiance.
  • The New Deal

    The New Deal
    The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933–37) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. T