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The lost generation

  • Glenn Curtis

    Glenn Curtis
    Glen Curtis was an American aviation pioneer and the founder of US aircraft industry. His early life career was a bicycle racer before he moved to motorcyclist. IN the early 1904 he began to manufactored the airships ,during the WW1 he supported the Americans by his company builed the Navy and the Aircrafts during the WW1.
  • Marcus Garvey

    Marcus Garvey
    BOrn in Jamica Marcus Garvey was an illustartor of the civil rights movements for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements.He also founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association UNIA which promote the African American to resettle ack in Africa.In 1919 The UNIA and him had launched THe Black Star Line the shipping company.He had been put in jail for 5 years claiming to be the victim of a politically motivated miscarriage of justice.He spent his remained life in London.
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    The Great Migration

    The Great Migration was a relocation of the African American of more than 6 millions people from the Southern rural area to the cities in the North , Midwest and West during the timespan of 1915 to 1960s. They headed North for more opportunity for jobs and works.The migrants were forced to deal with poor working conditions, racism,perjudice and so on.
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    jazz music

    jazz music was a genre of music that's originated in the African-American communities in the late 19th century to the early of 20th century.Jazz music became the most popular genre of music in that time for dancing. The rised of Jazz music coincided with the rise of radio broadcast and the recording technology. The era of kazz music has ended in the begimmimg of the era of the Great Depression.
  • Sussex Pledge

    Sussex Pledge
    Sussex Pledge was a promise of the German government to the United States to alter her policy unrestricted submarine warfare and to stop the sinking of the non-military ships , but the merchat ships would be searched and sunk only if they contain the contraband. The promise was given from Germany to America bcause Germany afraid that America would entered th war and joined British side, but eventually American join the war and faced German's side beacuse of the sinking of Lusitania ship.
  • John J. Pershing

    John J. Pershing
    on the sixth of April 1917 America decided to enter the WW1 and side with The Allied Powers, which the army was led by General John J. Pershing. who command the American Expiditionary Force AEF during the war, which was also involved in the great battle of Argonne Forest and could managed to win the war and broke down the Central Powers sides that led the armistice to be offered. He was promoted his rank after the war had ended to be the Genaral of the army of the America.
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    Red Scare

    Red Scare is the promotion of frea of the leftism or the communism, after the WW1 has ended but the eastern fonrt doesn't seem to be set as peace.The fears and the hatered of Germans in the country had soon drifted to the scare of the anachists, coumminism and the immigtants. The word Red has long been used for the term of communism, as in Russia the growth of communism was growing by that time and its called the red manace.
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    Battle of the Argonne Forest

    The last offensive war of the Allied side is started from 26th Sep 1918 in the Western front that the Allied side was led by USA and their enemy was Germany this war is called "Battle of the Argonne Forest".The Americans led by the AEF they fought in the hard difficult terrain that was built by Germany.The result was that America won and it considered to be the greatest wa rof AEF, after this war Germany offered to make an armistice and that led the war to come to an end.
  • Alvin York

    Alvin York
    On the 8th of October 1918 Alvin York killed 28 Germans and captured 132 in the Battle of Argonne Forest that later made him earned the medal of honor. Born in Tennesse Alvin York a religous man who love peace and hate violence. But anyway in 1917 when the United States joined the war and creat the draft York wrote on his draft paper that "Don't want to fight", but he got set to the war any way and done a pretty great job in the war.
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    Treaty of Versailles was a treaty that signed after the end of the WW1, the signing of this treaty held in Versailles Palace in France in 28th of June 1919.The treaty joined by "the big three" French president Clemenceau , British persident David Lloyde and US president Wilson Woodrow. the term of this treaty was mainly focus on punishing Central Power especially Germany.The issue could be devided in 4 ,military, territorial,financial and general.That caused Germany to lost so much power.
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    Harlem Renaissance

    Harlem Renaissance was a literaly, artistics and intellectual move ment that showed the new black people identity.that toom lace in Harlem between 1920s to the mid 1930s after the WW1. This period Harlem was a cultural center drawing black writers, poet,musician,photograhper, scholar and so on.Many had come from the South during the great migration that they feel that they get oppressed but they could expressed their talents in the North.But it stil had a little impact on the barrier races.
  • Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”

    Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
    Before the election in 1920 Warren G. Harding the candidate from The republican party he was giving the speech for campaigning that was about he promised to make the situation of the country come back as before the WW1 take place or make the country become in the peaceful usual situation, “Return to Normalcy”. Later he won the election.
  • Langston Hughes

    Langston Hughes
    Langston Hughes was an American poet,novelist and playwright.in 1924 he worked varios jobs sush as busboy and son on, when later he met Vachel Lindsey whose also was the American poet. He was impressed by Huges' poem that later helped him promoted his poem to the wider audiences. In 1925 his poem called "THe Weary Blues"won the forst prize in the Opportunity magazine literary competition.He was also one of the first poet to use Jazz rhythms and dialect to portray the life of urban black.
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    The Great Depression

    During the era decade of 1930s the country suffered the worst of the economic problems in th history. On October 29th 1929 the great horrible day of stock market downturn begins it called "the black thursday" it was the official beginning of the great depression era. Many people lost their jobs and unemployed workers rates went up high. President FDR came up with the New Deal to solved this problems. Eventually this era ended because of the increased production needed for World War II.
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    Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl was a name given to the Great Plain region that was devasted by drought in 1930s. the disaster was encompassed 150,000 square miles areas, it coverd OKlahoma, Kansas, Texas,Colorado and so on. when droght stuck the soil lacked the root-system of grass as an anchor,so the winds swirled the top dusty soil away called "The Black Blizzards"That made many rancher and farmers went in dept and so they moved to the cities. the Soil Conservation Service was created to solve the problem.
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    New Deal

    During the era of the Great Depression the country suffered a huge loss in the profits of the economy, the unemployed workers rate went up high as well.FDR won the president. He then began to solve this problem by created an experiment program called New Deal according to 3Rs streategy.This program was devided in to 2 section that were the first New Deal and the Second New Deal. many organizations were created for this New Deal to solve the situation.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd American president who was elected 4 times he was first elected in 4th March 1933, he led the country to enter the WW2.During his presidency time the federal government's power expanded widely because of the reform and programme called "New Deal"The hope of preventing the country to enter the WW2 ended when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 that led him brought the country in to the global conflicts.He passed away in April 12, 1945.
  • Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange
    During the Great Depression era, many farmer were displaced she was somebody who took the photograph. She also photographed the unemployed workers who had no jobs and wandered around the street.In 1934 she received the reputation of skilled documentary photographer, and in 1940 she received Guggenheim Fellowship.By the time the country entering the WW2 she was hired by OWI to photographed the photo about the the internment American Japanese in USA. She passed away with esophageal cancer. .
  • Charles Lindbergh

    Charles Lindbergh
    Charles Lindbergh is an American aviator who did a very impressed thing of that time by he went on a solo flight across the Atlantic ocean from New York on May 20th and landed in Paris on May 21st , and being the first one who flew on a solo plane across the Atlantic ocean that made him erarned the medal of honor and recieved a nick name of The Lone Eagle. Befor the WW2 took place he campaigned the country to avoid entering the war.