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Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
Return to normalcy, a return to the way of life before World War 1, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding’s campaign promise in the election of 1920 . Although detractors believed that the word was a neologism as well as a malapropism coined by Harding (as opposed to the more accepted term normality, there was contemporary discussion and evidence found that normalcy had been listed in dictionaries as far back as 1857. -
Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began to manufacture engines for airships. In 1908 Curtiss joined the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), a pioneering research group, founded by Alexander Graham bell at Bell at Beinn Bhreagh, And Nova Scotia to build flying machines. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32md President of the United states. A Democrat, he won a record four elections and served from March 1933 to his death in April 1945. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr, was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanist movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and ASsociation and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). -
Alvin York
Alvin Cullum York known also by his rank, Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War 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
Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression -era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. -
jazz music
Jazz is a genre the African American communities had came up with in the late 19th and early 20th century. Jazz had soon emerged in many parts of the United States of independent popular musical styles. They were joined together by the common bonds of European American and African-American musical parentage with a performance orientation -
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes 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. -
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. -
Sussex pledge
The 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.. Early in 1915, Germany had instituted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning. Despite this avowed restriction, a French cross-channel passenger ferry, the Sussex, was torpedoed without warning on March 24, 1916; the ship was severely damaged and about 50 lives were ta -
The Great Migration
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. Driven from their homes by unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws, many blacks headed north, where they took advantage of the need for industrial workers that first arose during the First World War. -
Red Scare
A Red Scare is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. The First Red Scare was about worker revolution and political radicalism. -
battle of the argonne forest
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, also known as the Maas-Argonne Offensive and the 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
The 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. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War 2. 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 -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance 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. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. -
The Dust Bow
The dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a time period of sever dust storms that had caused great amounts of damage on the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The storm brought dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused the phenomenon.
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The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the Unoted 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. -
John J. Pershing
John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing (September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948), was the general in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War 1 in 1917-18.
