Key terms Project

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    John J. 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.
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    Warren G. Harding

    was the 29th President of the United States, a Republican from Ohio who served in the Ohio Senate and then in the United States Senate, where he played a minor role
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    Gleen Curtiss

    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.
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    Frankilin D. Roosevelt

    was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States
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    Marcus Garvy

    as a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism
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    Alvin York

    known also by his rank, Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I.
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    Dorothea Lange

    was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration
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    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.
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    Charles Lindbergh

    was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
  • Jazz Music

    Jazz Music
    a genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century.
  • The Great Migration

    The Great Migration
    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
    was a promise given by the German Government to the United States of America on May 4th 1916 in response to US demands relating to the conduct of the First World War.
  • Battle of the Argonne Forest

    Battle of the Argonne Forest
    was part of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive planned by General Ferdinand Foch. The offensive called for a three-pronged attack on the Germans at the Western Front
  • Red Scare

    Red Scare
    is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents.
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    Negotiated among the Allied powers with little participation by Germany, its 15 parts and 440 articles reassigned German boundaries and assigned liability for reparations
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression
    was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors
  • 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.
  • The Dust Bowl

    The Dust Bowl
    the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. The 150,000-square-mile area, encompassing the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring sections of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, has little rainfall, light soil, and high winds, a potentially destructive combination
  • Harlem Renaissance

    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.