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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 -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States. -
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 -
Langston Hughes
was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. -
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. -
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; linked by the common bonds of European American and African-American musical parentage with a performance orientation. -
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,[1] allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning. -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. -
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. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. -
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. -
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, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism. -
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 -
Glenn Curtiss
was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. -
The New Deal
was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938. -
Alvin York
known also by his rank, Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. -
Dorothea Lange
was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist. -
Charles Lindbergh
was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.