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John J. Pershing
He was a general officer in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War 1. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
He was the 29th president of the United States and was well known for when he popularized the word Normalcy in his slogan, "Return to Normalcy" where America could just get back to normal life after the war. -
Glenn Curtiss
This man was an American Aviation Pioneer and he was also a founder of the U.S aircraft industry. He was most signifigant for building the aircraft engines and being a founder of the industry. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He was and American Statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States, and was the only one to be elected 4 times. He led the United States through the Great Depression and World War 2. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was a proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, which inspired the Nation of Islam and the Rastafarian Movement. -
Alvin York
He ended World War 1 as one of America's most famous soldiers, with fame and popular recognition assured following a remarkable act of courage in 1918. -
Dorothea Lange
She was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist. She was best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. -
Langston Hughes
He was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance. This was the African American Artist Movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. -
Charles Lindbergh
He did many things in his life, but one of the things he is more famous for is the fact that he was an American Aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Sussex Pledge
It was a promise made back in 1916 during World War 1 by Germany to the United States prior to the latter's entry in war. -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
It was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War 1 that stretched along the entire Western Front.It was a total of 47 days. -
Treaty of Versailles
It was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War 1. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
The Great Migration
It was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West. -
Harlem Renaissance
It was an African-American cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s. It celebrated the black ways of life, their traditions, as well as the black voice. -
Jazz Music
Jazz music became very popular in the 1920s. The period from the end of the first World War until the start of the depression was known as the jazz age. -
Red Scare
It is a promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or racial leftism, and was used by anti-leftist proponents. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade proceding World War 2. -
The New Deal
It was a group of governent programs and policies established under President FDR in the 1930s. It was designed to improve conditions for people that were suffering in the Great Depression. -
The Dust Bowl
It was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian Praries during the 1930s. It was known as the Dirty Thirties.
