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John J. Pershing
Died: July 15, 1948
General Pershing is best known for his accomplishments during World War I. He was appointed Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces when Frederick Funston, his boss, died unexpectedly. But before his service in World War I, while serving at Fort Bliss (Texas), he invited Mexican generals Álvaro Obregón and Francisco Villa to visit him. -
Glenn Clurtiss
Died:July 23, 1930
Glenn H. Curtiss was a noted motorcycle builder and racer, who built and produced engines for airships as early as 1906. In 1908, he became involved in the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), a group founded by Alexander Graham Bell. -
Fraklin D. Roosevelt
Died: April 12, 1945
Roosevelt led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, and greatly expanded the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal. Roosevelt died in Georgia in 1945. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, into a wealthy family. -
Marcus Garvey
Died: June 10, 1940
Garvey is known as a leading political figure because of his determination to fight for the unity of African Americans by creating the Universal Negro Improvement Association and rallying to gather supporters to fight -
Alvin York
Died: Sept. 2 , 1964
known also by his rank, Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I.[1] He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers, and capturing 132 others. -
Dorothea Lange
Died: October 11, 1965
Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, and playwright whose African-American themes made him a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. -
Charles Lindbergh
Died: August 26, 1974
famous for making the first solo transatlantic airplane flight in 1927. Before he took to the skies, however, Lindbergh was raised on a farm in Minnesota and the son of a lawyer and a congressman. -
The Great Migration
Ended: 1970
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 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. -
Red Scare
Ended: 1920
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. -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
Ended: Nov. 11, 1918
Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought from September 26, 1918, until the Armistice on November 11, a total of 47 days. -
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of 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. -
Harlem Renaissance
Ended: 1930
the Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity. Its essence was summed up by critic and teacher Alain Locke in 1926 when he declared that through art, “Negro life is seizing its first chances for group expression and self determination. -
jazz music
Jazz had become popular music in America, although older generations considered the music immoral and threatening to old cultural values. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy"
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. -
The Great Depression
Ended: 1932
The Great Depression, which lasted from 1929 to the early 1940s, was a severe economic downturn caused by an overly-confident, over-extended stock market and a drought that struck the South. -
The New Deal
Ended:1938
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 of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
The Dust Bowl
Ended:1940
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