February 14, 1929 Gangsters

working for Al Capone kill seven rivals in the act known as the St. Valentine's Day

Massacre

1925 Charlie Chaplin’s

popular silent comedy Gold Rush released

October 29, 1929 Postwar

prosperity ends in the Stock Market

crash

1920s Harlem

Renaissance

The Charleston is a dance that became

popular in the 1920′s, during the era of jazz music, speakeasies,

and flappers

FACTS about this decade:

• Life expectancy:  Male 53.6,   Female 54.6 • 343,000 in military (down from 1,172,601 in 1919) 

•Illiteracy rate reached a new low: 6% of the population   

June 17, 1928 Amelia Earhart becomes the first

woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean

1922 Ulysses by James

Joyce is published; U.S. Post Office burns

copies

1926 A.A. Milne Publishes

Winnie-the-Pooh

September 19, 1928

First Mickey Mouse talking film, Steamboat Willie, released by Walt

Disney

1922 Tomb of King Tut Discovered

FACTS about this decade:•Average annual earnings $1236;  •Teacher's salary  $970 

1922 Soviet States Merge into U.S.S.R.

August 8, 1925 Forty thousand Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington, their white-hooded procession filling Pennsylvania Avenue

January 10, 1920: League of Nations Established. The League ultimately proved incapable of preventing aggression by the Axis powers in the 1930s.

October 6, 1927 The advent of talking pictures emerges; Al

Jolson in The Jazz Singer debuts in New

York City

1927 Babe Ruth

Makes Home-Run Record

Art Deco is an influential visual arts design style which first appeared in France during the 1920s

FACTS about this decade: It took 13 days to reach California from New York;  There were 387,000 miles of paved road 

1922 Gandhi

sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience

1925 Hitler publishes

Mein Kampf

Art movements of the 1920s included the

modernist movement, abstract

expressionism, surrealism, and

realism

1920s slang used for "girls or women":  a broad, a bunny, a canary (well, one who could sing), a charity girl (one who was sexually promiscuous), a dame, a doll, cat's meow, cat's whiskers

August 10, 1927

Work on Gutzon Borglum’s gigantic

Presidential sculpture at Mount Rushmore began

1927 Leon Trotsky kicked out of

Russia's Communist Party

May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh leaves Roosevelt Field, New York, on

the first non-stop transatlantic flight in history 

1921 Albert Einstein wins Nobel Prize for Photoelectric

Effect

1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby published

November 15, 1926 The NBC Radio Network, formed by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA, opens with twenty-four stations

November 28, 1925 The Grand Ole Opry transmits

its first radio broadcast

1920 World population was 1.8 billion

1920s One-quarter of the world's

population fell under British rule

The Algonquin Round Table, (also known as The Vicious Circle), an informal group of American literary men and women, met for lunch on weekdays at a large round table in the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s and '30s. Many of the best-known writers, journalists, and artists in New York City were in this group. Among them were Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Russell Crouse, Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman, Harpo Marx, Dorothy Parker, Harold Ross, Robert Sherwood, and Alexander Woollcott.

July 10, 1924 The Scopes Trial or "Monkey Trial" begins, later resulting in a conviction for John T. Scopes, for teaching Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory at a Dayton, Tennessee high school, which violated Tennessee law.  Scopes was fined $100 for the charge.

Harry Houdini was the great escape

artist of the 1920s

The Lost Generation was the name Gertrude Stein gave to American expatriot writers, poets, and artists living in Europe during the 1920s. Famous members of the Lost Generation include Cole Porter, Gerald Murphy, Patrick Henry Bruce, Waldo Pierce, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson.

1927 Sacco and Venzetti Executed

May 10, 1924 J. Edgar Hoover is appointed 

to lead the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation

February 14, 1924

The IBM corporation is founded

FACTS about this decade

•106,521,537 people in the United States  •2,132,000 unemployed

• Unemployment 5.2%

1920 – 1933 Prohibition

1928 Penicillin Discovered

January 25, 1924 The first Winter Olympic

Games are held in the French Alps

in Chamonix, France

March 2, 1923 Time Magazine is

published for the first time, featuring on its

cover Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the

United States House of Representatives

1921 Margaret Sanger forms

the American Birth Control League, today’s

modern Planned Parenthood

In the 1920s, a new woman was born. She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. She was a flapper.

1929 First Academy

Awards

1927 Actress Mae West :

Obscene

May 30, 1922 The Lincoln Memorial is

dedicated

September 8, 1921 First Miss America pageant held in

Atlantic City

1924 Nellie Ross of Wyoming

and Miriam Ferguson of Texas are elected governors of their states

February 5, 1922

Reader's Digest is first published

Ford stops production of the “Model T” in 1927 Thanks to Henry

Ford and mass production, one could buy a Ford for only $290.00

The Fascists (Mussolini) took power in 1922

August 18, 1920 The 19th

Amendment gives Women

the right to Vote