Introduction to the 1920s

Used with AQA Examboard - Yr 12 AS Level. Prosperity in the 1920s.

1) Rhapsody in Blue -- one of the most famous jazz compositions of all time by George Gershwin
2) The Chrysler Building -- Empire State Building
3) Charlie Chaplin -- most famous comedian ever
4) Ford T Model -- began to be built in 1920s as a 'people's car'
5) Baird's TV -- Baird creates both the first working B+W and colour duing this decade
6) All Quiet on the Western Front -- a famous book and movie during this time
7) Weimar Germany -- outside America Germany is in crisis after WW1
8) Greta Garbo -- One of the most iconic actresses of the era who moved from silent to talkies.
9) Babe Ruth -- famous baseball player. Baceball is a national obsession.
10) Bessie Smith -- the Empress of Blues
11) Birdseye Frozen meals -- Birdseye pioneer frozen ready meals
12) Charles Lindbergh -- solo non-stop flight over the atlantic
13) Lights of New York -- Talkies
14) Al Capone -- mafia crime don
15) Einstein -- Theory of Relativity
16) Women's suffrage -- women were fighting for the right to vote during the 20s
17) Flappers -- as a way of getting back at the victorian ideals, women were liberated through shorter hemlines, loose fitting clothes, smoking, make-up and shorter hair.
18) The Great Gatsby -- famous book written at the time about social problems in America
19) Harlem Renaissance -- a cultural movement that began in Harlem in New York focusing on black culture and writers.
20) Houdini -- most famous escape artist the world has known.
21) Hoover -- although most famous for what he does later, Hoover was an influential figure in the 20s.
22) Mussolini -- in Italy Mussolini has taken over.
23) Al Jonson and Hollywood -- 'The World's Greatest Performer'
24) KKK -- racist organisation
25) Bolsheviks -- Bolsheviks have taken over in Russia.
26) Art Deco -- new movement moves away from previous styles to a more abstract style.
27) Louis Armstrong -- jazz musician.
28) Mahjong -- game borrowed from China that became popular.
29) Mahjong
30) Men's fashion
31) Of Mice and Men -- famous book on immigtation from rural areas to the towns in this period.
32) Prohibition
33) Radio -- invented during the decade
34) Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- immigrant anarchists -- during Red Scare -- falsely accused of murder -- put to death in 1927
35) Surrealism -- Dali is painting during the period as well as Picasso.
36) Scopes trial -- Evolutionism vs. Creationism.
37) Freud -- father of modern psychology. Had issues with his mother.
38) Wall St Crash -- economic meltdown.
39) Winnie the Pooh -- A.A. Milne publishes Winnie the Pooh in this period.

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[ThePeaceableKingdom]

Very nice, but I take issue with element number 33, "Radio". Although I think the first commercial broadcasts did occur in the early 1920's, radio was n ot invented in the 1920's. Nikola Tesla invented, built ,and most importantly, demonstrated that he understood the principles of radio at the end of the nineteenth century, before Marconi even, whose radio experiments were also before 1900.