Key Terms Project 2

  • John J. Pershing

    John J. Pershing
    U.S commander of the American Expeditionary Force
  • Glenn Curtiss

    Glenn Curtiss
    American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry
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    The Great Migration

    the movement of African Americans from the south to the north
  • Sussex Pledge

    was a promise by the German Government to the United States
    they promised to change their naval and submarine policy of unrestricted submarine warfare
  • Alvin York

    Alvin York
    one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War 1
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    Battle of the Argonne Forest

    was part of the last Allied offinces in WW1
  • Treaty of Versailles

    ended war between Germany and the Allied powers
  • Marcus Garvey

    Marcus Garvey
    an African nationalist who created a Back to Africa movement in the U.S
  • Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”

    Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
    return to the way it was before WW1
  • jazz music

    is a genre of music that originated in black communities
  • Red Scare

    Red Scare
    the fear of potential rise in communism
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    Harlem Renaissance

    a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement for african americans
  • Charles Lindbergh

    Charles Lindbergh
    an American aviator was the first person to do a solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean
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    The Great Depression

    an economic downturn soon after the crash of the stock market
  • Langston Hughes

    Langston Hughes
    was an American poet, social activist best know for being the leader of th Harlem Renaissance
  • The Dust Bowl

    The Dust Bowl
    a drought that caused very bad soil and when the wind would blow it would make huge dust clouds
  • Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange
    was an documentary photographer during the great depression
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    the 32nd presedent of the U.S
  • The New Deal

    series of experimental projects and programs, to try to stabilize the economy