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John J. Pershing "Black Jack"
Officer in the United States Army who led Expeditionary Forces in World War I. Only person in his lifetime to be promoted to General of the Armies. Was blamed for causing unnecessarily high American casualties. -
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Glenn Curtiss
Founder of the U.S. aircraft industry known for flight aviation and racing. Made the first official flight and long distance flight in the United States. His company built aircrafts for the U.S. Army and Navy. -
Jazz music
Style of music that originated in African American communities during late 19th and 20th century. The music emerged as a independent popular music style. -
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Marcus Garvey
Jamaican politician, publisher and journalist, who was promenent in Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism. Inspired global mass movment and economic growth in Africa by Pan-African philosophy. -
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The Great Migration
Mass movement of six million African Americans out of the rural southern united states. African Americans left rural farmland to work in the urban industrial cities. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd president of the United Sates who led during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. Built the New Deal Coalition that realigned american politics in 1932. -
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Alvin C. York
One of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. York’s heroism was unnoticed in the United States press until later. -
Sussex Plegde
Promise made by the United States to Germany threatening their entrance to the war if they continued to sink merchant and civilian ships without the presence of a weapon known on board. -
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Harlem Renaissance
Cultural, social, and artistic uprising that took place in Harlem between 1918 and 1930’s. During this period was a center for black artist, writers, and song writers in culture. -
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Red Scare
Fear of communism or radical leftism rising. Was focused on foreign communist influencing society and infiltrating the federal government. -
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
Part of the final allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought until the Armistice of November 11 the battle was the largest in United States military history. -
Treaty of Versailles
Made Germany give up all land taken during the war, made them pay reparations, and reduced their military force to a small police force crippling Germany. -
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Langston Hughes
Innovator of the new literary art form called jazz poetry. Known as a Harlem Renaissance leader famously writing “the negro was in vogue” -
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Warren G. Harding’s “Return to normalcy”
A return to the way of life before World War I. Running in the election of 1920 promised to return the United States to a pre-war mentality. -
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Charles Lindbergh
Flew from the United States to Paris in one day. Was awarded the Medal of Honor while in the Army Air Corps Reserve. Used his fame to promote commercial aviation and air mail. -
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The Great Depression
October 29, 1929- January 1, 1945
Severe economic downturn with unemployment rates up to 25%. It was the longed and deepest depression lasting from the 30’s to the 40’. The worldwide GDP had fell by 15% between 1929-1932. -
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The New Deal
Series of programs developed by the United stats between 1933 and 1938 and some that came later. These Programs were supposed to aid and help with the great depression and hopefully stop it in the future. -
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The Dust Bowl
Period of severe drought and dust storms due to poor farming conditions loosing nutrients in the ground being wiped away by wind forming dust storms. -
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Dorothea Longe
An influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist who was known for her work during the depression. Her most famous picture was taken in 1936 called the “Migrant Mother” of a mother holding her child on the road.
