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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.
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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.
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The Treaty of Versailles (French: Traité de Versailles) was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I.
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Jazz is a genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century.
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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.
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Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States, a Republican from Ohio who served in the Ohio Senate and then in the United States Senate, where he played a minor role.
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The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later.
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he 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.
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Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles. As early as 1904, he began to manufacture engines for airships.
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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.
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the great depression was a time were most of americans were unemployed and did not have money to pay for food and/or housing.
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH, was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States.
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John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing, was the general in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War I, 1917-18.
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Alvin Cullum York, known also by his rank, Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I.
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Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration.
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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.
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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, had a huge impact on urban life in the United States.
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh, nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.