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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's "Return to Normalcy"
was the 29th President of the United States (1921–23), 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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Glenn Curtiss
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States. -
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Marcus Garvey
was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). He founded the Black Star Line, which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands. -
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Alvin York
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 (FSA). -
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Langston Hughes
was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. -
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Charles Lindbergh
was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. -
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The Great Migration
was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. -
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Jazz music
is a genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century. Jazz emerged in many parts of the United States of independent popular musical styles -
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Sussex Pledge
was a promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States prior to the latter's entry into the war. -
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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 -
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. -
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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. -
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Harlem Renaissance
new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States affected by the Great Migration (African American),of which Harlem was the largest. Though it was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City -
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The Great Depression
was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. -
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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 (1933–37) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
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The Dust Bowl
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; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion