The Lost Generation

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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
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    Glenn Curtiss

    Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States.
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    Marcus Garvey

    Orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements
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    Alvin 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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    Langston Hughes

    He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.
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    Charles Lindbergh

    as an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Return to normalcy

    harding proposed to go back to the way things were before the war.
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    The Great Depression

    a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II.