THE ROARING 20'S

1920'S CULTURE

CLOTHING

• Women- shorter dresses
• Men- suits
• Party Clothes!

1920

• Prohibition
• Women suffrage in America
• Hitler starts Nazi party
• America is being more urban than rural

1921

• High inflation in Germany causes panic
• 1921 started on a Saturday
• Northern Ireland is formed

1922

• King Tuts tomb is found
• Tariffs go up in America
• Insulin is discovered

1923

• Charleston dance becomes popular
• Hitler is jailed for failure in takingover Germany
• Talking movies invented
• Time magazine is first published
• Bessie Smith records first jazz album

1924

• J. Edgar Hoover appointed director to FBI
• Ford Motor Company begins
• Insecticides are used
• Ellis Island is closed
• Indian Citizenship Act

1925

• Flapper dresses are in style
• Hitler writes Mein Kramp in jail
• The Great Gatsby is published
• The Butler Act

1926

• Houdini killed punched in the stomach
• A women swims the English Channel
• A.A. Milne publishes Winnie the Pooh

1927

• Babe Ruth makes home run record
• BBC founded
• First talking movie
• Charles Lindbergh flys solo
• Great Mississippi River flood

1928

• Bubble gum, penicillin, sliced bread invented
• First Mickey Mouse and Oxford Dictonary
• Industries go into recession

1929

• Car radio invented
• St. Valentines massacre
• Stock market crashes on black Thursday
• Great depression starting

FUN FACTS

• More people live in cities for the first time in history
• The nations wealth doubles between 1920-1929
• The 18th amendment didn't prohibit alcohol consumption
• The Yale club in NYC stockpiled a 14 year's supply of booze
• Dancing, Jazz, Automobile, and Individualism became very popular

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