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John J. Pershing
He was the general in the United States Army. He led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in the World War 1. ' -
Glenn Curtiss
He was an American Aviation pionner and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. Starting at 1904 he began to manufacture engines for airships. He joined the Aerial Experiment Association and pioneering research group. Which was founded by Alexander Graham Bell which was to builed flying machines. -
Franlin D. Roosevelt
He was the 32nd president. He was president when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Roosevelt gave China and Great Britain financial support. He called war on Germany and Japan after the attack on Pear Harbor. -
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. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities Leagues. Also he founded the Black Star Line, which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands. -
Alvin York
He was known as his rank which was Sergent York. He was one of the most decorared American Soldiers during World War 1. He recieved a medal of honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest. During the attack he took 32 machine guns, killed 28 German soldier, and captured 132 people. -
Dorothea Lange
She was and American documentary photographer and photojournalist. She is best remembered for her Depression era work for the farm security administration. -
James Mercer 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 the jazz poetry. He is the leader of the Harlem Renaissance. -
Charles Lindbergh
He was nicknamed Slim, Lucky, Lindy, and The Lone Eagle. He was an american aviator, author, inventor,explorer, and social activist. He promoted bother comercial aviation and Air Mail services in the U.S. In March of 1932 his infant son was kidnapped and murdered, it was said to be the "Crime of the Century". He didn't want the U.S. to go to war. He was antiwar but he agreed that the U.S. should go to war after the bombing of Pear Harbor. -
Sussex Pledge
It was a promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States. -
Battle of Argonne Forest
It was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. -
Harlem Renaissance
(ignore the day and the month) It was known as the"New Negro-Movement" it was named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. It also included the new African American cultural expressions acroos the Northeast and Midwast U.S. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
advertised during his presidential campaign in the aftermath of World War I—it meant an end to wars in Europe and an end to reforms taking place in the United States. Ignore the month and day. -
The Great Depression
A record 12.9 million shares were traded that day, the day was knows as "Black Thursday". Then "Black Tuesday" some 16 million saharesended up not worth anything.