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John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing
General Officer in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. He became the General of the Armies which is the highest authorized rank in the United States Army. He was sworn in as a West Point cadet near the age of 22. Pershing commanded the West Point Honor Gaurd for the funeral of President Ulysses S. Grant. He was commisioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army in 1886, age 26. He then reported for active duty on September 30, 1886. -
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Glenn Hammond Curtiss
Aviation Pioneer as well as a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. In 1914, Curtiss and, a retired British naval officer, John Porte produced the America, which was a large flying boat with two engines, for the transatlantic crossing. At the start of WWI Porte returned to service and purchased several models of the America from Curtiss. His factory built 68 Americas, which was the only American designed and built aircraft that saw combat in WWI. -
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Roosevelt's strong base in the most populous state made him an obvious candidate for the Democratic nomination, which was hotly contested in light of incumbent Herbert Hoover's vulnerability. Al Smith was supported by some city bosses, but had lost control of the New York Democratic party to Roosevelt. Roosevelt built his own national coalition with personal allies such as newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, Irish leader Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and California leader William Gibbs McAdoo. -
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr.
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Alvin Cullum (Sergeant) York
Sergeant York was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. He recieved the Medal of Honor for leading an attack where he killed 28 german soldiers, captured 132 others, and took 32 machine guns from a German machine gun nest. He recieved the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, World War I Victory Medal, American Campaign Medal, Légion d'Honneur, Croix de Guerre, Croce di Guerra al Merito, and Montenegrin War Medal. He is still remembered today. -
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Dorothea Lange
influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. Lange was educated in photography at Columbia University in New York City. She was informally apprenticed to several New York photography studios, including that of the famed Arnold Genthe. -
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James Mercer Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes had a rough childhood, -
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (a.k.a. Slim, Lucky Lindy, & The Lone Eagle)
Slim was a U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve officer that piloted a nonstop flight on May 20-21, 1927, from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, 3600 miles in a single-seat, single-engine purpose built monoplane. He was the first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next, and for this he received the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit. He then flew 50 combat missions in WWII after Pearl Harbor as a civillian consultant. -
Sussex Pledge
The Sussex was a French passenger ship which was torpedoed by Germany Naval forces on March 24, 1916, which killed around 50 people and severly damaged the ship, although no US citizens were aboard this ship, President Woodrow Wilson was prompted to enter the war because of this unrestricted submarine warfare, Germany attempted to appease the US by issuing the Sussex Pledge on May 4, 1916, which promised a change in the German naval warfare policy. -
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought from September 26, 1918, until the Armistice on November 11, a total of 47 days. The battle was the largest in United States military history, involving 1.2 million American soldiers, and was one of a series of Allied attacks known as the Hundred Days Offensive, which brought the war to an end. The Meuse-Argonne was the principal engagement of the American Expeditionary Forces WWI. -
Return to Normalcy
This topic ended up being important during the United States presidential election in 1920 which resulted in Harding winning the presidency with 60.3% of the popular vote. During the campaign, Harding addressed the issue of the word's origin, claiming that "normalcy", but not "normality", appeared in his dictionary: I have noticed that word caused considerable news editors to change it to "normality". I have looked for "normality" in my dictionary and I do not find it there. "Normalcy", howeve -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. Worldwide GDP fell by 15%, 1929-32. In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how far the world's economy can decline.
