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1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
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Referred to as the Roaring 20's.

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Events and trends

Technology

  • John Logie Baird invents the first working television system. (1925)
  • Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean (20 May-21 May 1927)
  • Penicillin is discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming. (1928)

    • Science

  • Great advances in quantum mechanics
  • Wave mechanics and the Schrödinger equation
  • Werner Heisenberg formulates the uncertainty principle
  • Paul Dirac's unification of quantum mechanics with special relativity

    • War, peace and politics

  • Rise of communism after World War I
  • The Red Scare
  • Irish Civil War
  • Southern Ireland gains independence from the United Kingdom in 1922
  • Turkish War of Independence
  • Polish-Soviet war
  • First Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald formed in the United Kingdom
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact to end war

    • Economics

  • Economic boom ended by "Black Tuesday" (October 29, 1929); the stock market crashes, leading to the Great Depression

    • Culture, religion

  • Youth culture of The Lost Generation; flappers, Charleston, bobbed hair
  • 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
  • Fads such as dance marathons, mah-jongg, crossword puzzles and pole-sitting are popular

    • Others

    People

    World leaders

  • Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada)
  • President Sun Yat-sen (Republic of China)
  • President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China)
  • President Paul von Hindenburg (Germany)
  • King Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)
  • Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy)
  • President W.T. Cosgrave (Irish Free State)
  • President Mustafa Kemal(Attaturk) (Turkey)
  • Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
  • Pope Pius XI
  • Vladimir Lenin (Soviet Union)
  • Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
  • King George V (United Kingdom)
  • Prime Minister David Lloyd George (United Kingdom)
  • Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law (United Kingdom)
  • Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (United Kingdom)
  • Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald (United Kingdom)
  • President Woodrow Wilson (United States)
  • President Warren G. Harding (United States)
  • President Calvin Coolidge (United States)

    • Entertainers

  • Charlie Chaplin
  • George Gershwin
  • Duke Ellington
  • Fletcher Henderson
  • Al Jolson
  • Jelly Roll Morton
  • Cole Porter
  • Bessie Smith
  • Rudy Vallee
  • Paul Whiteman
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Eddie Cantor
  • Helen Kane

    • Sports figures

  • Babe Ruth (U.S. baseball player)
  • Gordon Coventry (Australian. Australian Rules Football player)

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    This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "1920s".


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