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1920s
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Sometimes referred to as the "Jazz Age" or primarily in North America as the "Roaring Twenties".
Events and trends
Technology
Science
War, peace and politics
Economics
Culture, religion
- Youth culture of The Lost Generation; flappers, Charleston, bobbed hair
- Women's suffrage movement continues to make gains as women obtain full voting rights in the United States in 1920, in Denmark in 1921, and in England in 1928; and women begin to enter the workplace in larger numbers
- Prohibition — legal attempt to end consumption of alcohol in the USA
- In the US, gangsters and the rise of organized crime, often associated with bootleg liquor, in defiance of Prohibition
- "The Jazz Age" — jazz and jazz-influenced dance music widely popular
- First commercial radio station in the U.S. goes online in Pittsburgh, in 1922, and radio quickly becomes a popular entertainment medium
- Start of commercially viable "Talking Pictures" (motion pictures with sound tracks)
- Beginning of surrealist movement
- Beginning of the Art Deco movement
- Fads such as dance marathons, mah-jongg, crossword puzzles and pole-sitting are popular
- The Harlem Renaissance
- The Scopes Trial (1925) which questioned evolution
People
World leaders
Entertainers
Sports figures
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