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Glenn Curtiss founded the aviation industry and manufactured airplane engines for the war.
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Marcus Jarvey was a black politcal leader who kickstarted 'black power' or 'black nationalism' and he founded the United Nergo Immigration Association.
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African Americans migrated up north and west for better economic opportunity and social freedom.
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Germany had to stop sinking ships that were non-affliated with the military and could only sink the ships if they were searched and found with contraband.
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General Officer, commanded the AEF Army and led the success in the Argonne Forest.
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Alvin York is the most decorated soldier in WW1, he participated in the war effort in the Argonne Forest and killed several Germans.
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This was fear set out to 'scare' the public about the rise of Communisim.
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THe battle was won under impossible odds and about 200 survived.
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This treaty put an end to WW1 by giving harsh consquences to Germany from the US, Italty, France, and Britian. This happened on the day Acheduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated only five years later.
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The signifigance of the 'Return to Normalcy" is that many Americans wanted to go into isolationism and stay out of European business, also 'Big Business' thrived during this era.
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Charles Lindbergh graduated from aviation training for the Army and gained a reputation for being the 'perfect pilot' where he stayed alive and took down the enemy.
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Langston Hughes was a major part of the 'jazz age' and contributed poetry and playwrights that influenced the era.
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The stock market crashed, several families lost their homes, belogings and jobs. The government had to step in to eventually bring the country out of the reccesion.
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Dorthea Lange was a surealistic photographer that captured the moments during FDR's Farming Security Administration and also other depression-era scenes.
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This was a time of artistic and social movement that took place in Harlem, NY for African Americans. Jazz, theatre, poetry, literature, and art surfaced as part of the most notable part of American History.
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A huge wind came over the grasslands (that were overly farmed) and swept away the topsoil that created the Dust Bowl. Farming became very scarce and non-exsistant, which then led families to migrate West.
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FDR believed in politics that had more government involvement to bring the US out of debt and the depression. He put i play several acts and bills that would then protect the common man so in the future the US could not suffer through another depression as bad as in 1930s.
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This was a series of programs that would come to raise America out of recession and kickstart the economy slowly but successfully.
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Jazz music became very popular and started a whole movement across the country.
