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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 -
Glenn Curtiss
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. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
commonly known by his initials FDR, 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 -
Alvin York
one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I -
jazz music
a genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century. -
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. -
Charles Lindbergh
an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. -
Sussex Pledge
a promise given by the German Government to the United States of America on May 4th 1916 in response to US demands relating to the conduct of the First World War. -
The Great Migration
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 -
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. -
The Great Depression
the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929 -
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 -
The Dust Bowl
was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
The New Deal
a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 -
Red Scare
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. -
Dorothea Lange
influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration