1920s Timeline

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Years: 1920 - 1921 - 1922 - 1923 - 1924 - 1925 - 1926 - 1927 - 1928 - 1929

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Events and Trends

• Rise of communism after World War I 
• Youth culture of The Lost Generation; Flappers, Charleston, Bobbed Hair 
• Economic boom ended by "Black Thursday" - October 24, 1929 - the stock market crashes, leading to the Great Depression
• Southern Irelandgains independence from the United Kingdom in 1922. 
• First Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald formed in the United Kingdom. 
• Prohibition -- legal attempt to end consumption of alcohol in the USA 
• "The Jazz Age" -- Jazz and jazz-influenced dance music widely popular 
• Rise of broadcast radio as an entertainment medium 
• Start of commercially viable "Talking Pictures" (motion pictures with sound tracks) 
• Beginning of surrealist movement 
• Beginning of the Art Deco movement 

World Leaders

• Stanley Baldwin 
• Calvin Coolidge 
• Mahatma Gandhi 
• King George V 
• Warren G. Harding 
• Herbert Hoover 
• Vladimir Lenin 
• Ramsay MacDonald 
• Benito Mussolini 

Entertainers

• Charlie Chaplin 
• George Gershwin 
• Duke Ellington 
• Fletcher Henderson 
• Al Jolson 
• Jelly Roll Morton 
• Cole Porter 
• Bessie Smith 
• Rudy Vallee 
• Paul Whiteman

 

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