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1920 ppt
- 1. February 14, 1929 Gangstersworking for Al Capone kill seven rivals in the act known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre
- 2. 1925 CharlieChaplin’s popular silent comedy Gold Rush released
- 3. October 29, 1929 Postwarprosperity ends in the Stock Market crash
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- 5. The Charleston isa dance that became popular in the 1920′s, during the era of jazz music, speakeasies, and flappers
- 6. FACTS about thisdecade: • 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
- 7. June 17, 1928Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean
- 8. 1922 Ulysses by JamesJoyce is published; U.S. Post Office burns copies
- 9. 1926 A.A. Milne Publishes Winnie-the-Pooh
- 10. September 19, 1928 FirstMickey Mouse talking film, Steamboat Willie, released by Walt Disney
- 11. 1922 Tomb ofKing Tut Discovered
- 12. FACTS about thisdecade: •Average annual earnings $1236; •Teacher's salary $970
- 13. 1922 Soviet StatesMerge into U.S.S.R.
- 14. August 8, 1925Forty thousand Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington, their white- hooded procession filling Pennsylvania Avenue
- 15. January 10, 1920:League of Nations Established. The League ultimately proved incapable of preventing aggression by the Axis powers in the 1930s.
- 16. October 6, 1927 The advent of talking pictures emerges; Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer debuts in New York City
- 17. 1927 Babe Ruth Makes Home-Run Record
- 18. Art Deco isan influential visual arts design style which first appeared in France during the 1920s
- 19. FACTS about thisdecade: It took 13 days to reach California from New York; There were 387,000 miles of paved road
- 20. 1922 Gandhisentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience
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- 22. Art movements ofthe 1920s included the modernist movement, abstract expressionism, surrealism, a nd realism
- 23. 1920s slang usedfor "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
- 24. August 10, 1927 Work on Gutzon Borglum’s gigantic Presidential sculpture at Mount Rushmore began
- 25. 1927 Leon Trotsky kicked out of Russia's Communist Party
- 26. May 20, 1927Charles Lindbergh leaves Roosevelt Field, New York, on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in history
- 27. 1921 AlbertEinstein wins Nobel Prize for Photoelectric Effect
- 28. 1925 F. ScottFitzgerald's The Great Gatsby published
- 29. November 15, 1926 TheNBC Radio Network, formed by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA, opens with twenty-four stations
- 30. November 28, 1925 TheGrand Ole Opry transmits its first radio broadcast
- 31. 1920 Worldpopulation was 1.8 billion 1920s One-quarter of the world's population fell under British rule
- 32. The Algonquin RoundTable, (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.
- 33. 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.
- 34. Harry Houdini was thegreat escape artist of the 1920s
- 35. The Lost Generationwas 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.
- 36. 1927 Sacco andVenzetti Executed
- 37. May 10, 1924 J.Edgar Hoover is appointed to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- 38. February 14, 1924 TheIBM corporation is founded
- 39. FACTS about thisdecade •106,521,537 people in the United States •2,132,000 unemployed • Unemployment 5.2%
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- 42. January 25, 1924 Thefirst Winter Olympic Games are held in the French Alps in Chamonix, France
- 43. March 2, 1923 TimeMagazine is published for the first time, featuring on its cover Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- 44. 1921 Margaret Sanger formsthe American Birth Control League, today’s modern Planned Parenthood
- 45. 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.
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- 47. 1927 Actress Mae West: Obscene
- 48. May 30, 1922 TheLincoln Memorial is dedicated
- 49. September 8, 1921 FirstMiss America pageant held in Atlantic City
- 50. 1924 Nellie Ross of Wyoming and Miriam Ferguson of Texas are elected governors of their states
- 51. February 5, 1922 Reader's Digest is first published
- 52. Ford stops productionof the “Model T” in 1927 Thanks to Henry Ford and mass production, one could buy a Ford for only $290.00
- 53. The Fascists (Mussolini)took power in 1922
- 54. August 18, 1920 The19th Amendment gives Women the right to Vote