1920 ppt
- 1. February 14, 1929 Gangsters working for Al Capone kill seven rivals in the act known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre
- 2. 1925 Charlie Chaplin’s popular silent comedy Gold Rush released
- 3. October 29, 1929 Postwar prosperity ends in the Stock Market crash
- 5. The Charleston is a dance that became popular in the 1920′s, during the era of jazz music, speakeasies, and flappers
- 6. 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
- 7. June 17, 1928 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean
- 8. 1922 Ulysses by James Joyce is published; U.S. Post Office burns copies
- 9. 1926 A.A. Milne Publishes Winnie-the-Pooh
- 10. September 19, 1928 First Mickey Mouse talking film, Steamboat Willie, released by Walt Disney
- 11. 1922 Tomb of King Tut Discovered
- 12. FACTS about this decade: •Average annual earnings $1236; •Teacher's salary $970
- 13. 1922 Soviet States Merge into U.S.S.R.
- 14. August 8, 1925 Forty 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 is an influential visual arts design style which first appeared in France during the 1920s
- 19. FACTS about this decade: It took 13 days to reach California from New York; There were 387,000 miles of paved road
- 20. 1922 Gandhi sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience
- 21. 1925 Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
- 22. Art movements of the 1920s included the modernist movement, abstract expressionism, surrealism, a nd realism
- 23. 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
- 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, 1927 Charles Lindbergh leaves Roosevelt Field, New York, on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in history
- 27. 1921 Albert Einstein wins Nobel Prize for Photoelectric Effect
- 28. 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby published
- 29. November 15, 1926 The NBC Radio Network, formed by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA, opens with twenty-four stations
- 30. November 28, 1925 The Grand Ole Opry transmits its first radio broadcast
- 31. 1920 World population was 1.8 billion 1920s One-quarter of the world's population fell under British rule
- 32. 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.
- 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 the great escape artist of the 1920s
- 35. 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.
- 36. 1927 Sacco and Venzetti Executed
- 37. May 10, 1924 J. Edgar Hoover is appointed to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- 38. February 14, 1924 The IBM corporation is founded
- 39. FACTS about this decade •106,521,537 people in the United States •2,132,000 unemployed • Unemployment 5.2%
- 42. January 25, 1924 The first Winter Olympic Games are held in the French Alps in Chamonix, France
- 43. 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
- 44. 1921 Margaret Sanger forms the 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.
- 47. 1927 Actress Mae West : Obscene
- 48. May 30, 1922 The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated
- 49. September 8, 1921 First Miss 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 production of 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 The 19th Amendment gives Women the right to Vote