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John J. Pershing
He was the general in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War I. -
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Glenn Curtiss
He was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
He was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States. -
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Marcus Garvey
He 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. -
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Alvin York
He was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. -
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Dorothea Lange
She was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. -
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Jazz music
Jazz is a genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century. -
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Langston Hughes
He 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
He was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. -
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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 that occurred between 1910 and 1970. -
Sussex Pledge
It 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
It's 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
It was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. -
Treaty of Versailles
It 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. -
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Harlem Renaissance
It 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. -
The Great Depression
It was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. -
The Dust Bowl
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. -
The New Deal
It was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later.