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John J. Pershing
Pershing was an American general who led troops in Pancho VIlla in 1916 and on the Meuse-Argonne in 1918. He was the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe. -
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Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
Harding was a president who called for a return to normalcy after the first world war. He had laissez-faire policies and wanted to remove progressive ideals established by Woodrow Wilson. He was corrupt in office and used it for personal gain. Harding didn't follow through with enforcing laws and accepted bribes from people. -
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Glenn Curtiss
Known as the "Father of Aviation" and "Founder of the American Aircraft Industry." He made motorcycles and eventually became the first person to fly in public. Curtiss headed a compacy and built the largest fleet of airplaces for the first world war. He laterjoined the Wright Brothers and formed the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt was the 32nd president and was elected into four terms of sevice, from 1933 to 1945. He is the only president to ever serve more than 2 terms in office. He was a central figure in the time especially during the war and economic crisis. -
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Marcus Garvey
Garvey was the leader of the UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) and urged blacks to return to Africa. He believed that blacks would never be treated equally in white countries. -
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Alvin York
York captured 132 German soldiers during the first world war and won the Congressional Medal of Honor. -
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Dorothea Lange
Lange was a popular photographer during the depression for taking pictures of rural workers. -
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Langston Hughes
Hughed was a leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance. He used the rich African American culture to influence jazz music and wrote many poems. -
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Charles Lindbergh
Lindbergh was the first pilot to complete a nonstop transatlantic flight. He flew from the United States to Paris on The Spirit of St Louis in 1927. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in the United States and Hitler awarded him with the German Medal of Honor. He later helped design the Boeing 747 and recieved the Pulitzer Prize in 1954. -
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The Great Migration
The movement of African Americans from the south to the northeast and midwestern parts of the ocuntry. Causes are from decreasing cotton prices, lack of immigrant workers in the north, and strengthening of the KKK. The Great Migration lef to higher wages and more educational opportunited for some blacks. -
Sussex Pledge
A torpedo from a German submarine hit a French passanger liner called the Sussex. President Woodrow Wildson demanded Germans to stop attacking passanger ships and stop unrestricted submarine warfare. Germans agreed to temporarily stop but continued due to the British blocking German ports. -
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The Battle of the Argonne Forest.
The Battle of the Argonne Forest was part of the final Allied offensive of the first world war. It forced the German forces to surrender on Armistice Day. -
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Red Scare
The Red Scare was a movement spawned by fear of Bolsheviks that resulted in the arresting and deportation of many many political radicals. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of the first world war. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers and gave war blame to Germany. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a boom in the African American culture in the 20s when Harlem became a cultural capital. Loads of African Americans dreamt to go to Harlem and share their pride in their culture and helped develop new music and share it with different cultures and new immigrants. -
Jazz Music
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The Great Depression
A period of economic crisis and period of low business activity because of the stock-market crash continuing through the 1930s. -
Dust Bowl
Parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas were hit by high winds and drought, resulting in blinding dust storms that lasted years and years. Winds blew away crops and farms and dust was blown all the war to New York. Life was made hard for people affected and many people struggled to survive. It deprived farmers of crops and money. -
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The New Deal
President Franklin Roosevelt made programs to help with the economic depression and enacted a number of social insurance measures and used government spending to help stimulate the conomy. He increased power of the state and the state's intervention in US social and economic life.
