1920-1929
Published on Oct 09, 2017
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1920
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First Wireless
Radio becomes commercial and used widely.
Yankees sign The Babe
and outhits 14 of 16 teams in the league
Women get the Vote!
Photo by Arnaud Jaegers
Wall Street Bomb
1921
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Chanel No. 5
Coco's 80 Ingredients
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Immigration Quotas
Photo by brizzle born and bred
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Tulsa
Greenwood Before
Tulsa Race Riot
- 85 Deaths - Hundreds Injured
- 30 City Blocks were destroyed by fire
- Black man "attacks" a white woman
- 500 African American men show up to the local police department to stop a lynching
- This prompts white population in invade the Greenwood section of the city and set it ablaze
1922
Photo by pedrosimoes7
Short skirts and Short Hair
Flappers
1923
Photo by Onasill ~ Bill Badzo
Germany's Economy Tanks
A loaf of bread goes from 20,000 Marks to 5 million in one day
Photo by Sister72
Beer Hall Putsch
- Hitler and the Nazi's try to stage a coup in Munich
- Hitler is arrested in his PJ's
- He spends the next 8 months in prison writing Mein Kampf
Photo by NoirinP
Tokyo Earthquake 7.9
300,000 Dead, 500,000 Injured, & 2.5 million homeless
1924
Photo by Jose Javier Martin Espartosa
The Jazz Age
- First time there are more people in the cities than in the country
- Wealth of US doubles in 10 years
- Women gain rights to vote
- Migration of black people to cities
- With Prohibition comes crime and drinking/parties go underground
Photo by Jens Thekkeveettil
Scopes "Monkey Trial"
- Tennessee teacher put on trial for teaching evolution
- Famous Lawyer Clarence Darrow was forbidden from arguing the validity of evolutionary theory.
- Instead, Darrow put fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan on the stand.
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More Scopes
- Bryan was evasive and illogical and made creationists look ridiculous
- Scopes was found guilty, but only had to pay $1
- The law stayed on the books in Tennessee until 1967 - but was never enforced.
Photo by Camil Tulcan
Louis Armstrong's "Hot Five"
Cornet Chop Suey
Ezra Pound
- One of the most important American writers of the century
- Shepherded James Joyce, T.S. Elliot, William Carlos Williams, Wyndham Lewis, Marianne Moore, & Earnest Hemingway
- Discovered Robert Frost and D.H. Lawrence, and coached W.B. Yeats to adopt a leaner style
- Became a fascist and went to Italy
Photo by Lucia Whittaker
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Mae West
She brings sexuality to the screen
Mussolini Consolidates Power
- Deranged Irishwoman cuts his nose - shuts down opposing journals
- Socialist/Freemason - bans the Socialist Party
- French Anarchist - Turns Italy against France
- 16 Year Old Boy - immediately lynched and paraded around Bologna - Mussolini completes seizure of power
Photo by Ochre Jelly
"The Sun Also Rises"
- Hemingway's "Lost Generation"
- Jake is impotent from a war wound and in love w/ Lady Brett, who is engaged, but wants to seduce a Spanish matador.
- Every character is wounded, bleak, and sterile in their own way.
Arrives in Paris
100,000 People are there to greet him
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Harlem Nights
Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway
1928
Photo by pedrosimoes7
Steamboat Willie
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New Radio Show
Plays for 30 years and is popular among both Blacks and Whites
1929
Police Work
Such a messy business.
Sky Above Clouds
Red Rusted Hills
Flowers or Freudian?
All Quiet on the Western Front
Photo by Gwydion M. Williams
Financial Crisis?
- Stocks had more than doubled in 4 years
- Easy loans and over speculation led to overpriced stocks.
- Governments believed that capitalism would "self-correct", so they mostly did nothing.
Photo by pegazuz66
