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Thorstein Veblen was a famous Norwegian Economist who was popular for being a witty critic of capitalism. "Conspicuous Consumption" was one of his famous ideas.
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Russian Communist revolutionary, political theorist, and politician. He served of the Head of Government of many different governments including: Russian Republic, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, adn the Soviet Union
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The Magician!
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Chinese political and military leader
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The Russian Civil War was a war between the people in Russia as they disagreed on the political futures of Russia.
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The Red Terror was all about killings including torture, mass killings, and systematic oppression conducted by the Bolsheviks. It was also the beginning of the Soviet Republic
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In 1918, the Allies occupy Germany, gaining ground on the central powers
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A political and social system in South Africa made by the white minority to institute stricter racial segregation.
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Marcus Garvey, AKA Black Moses, leads the black population in the largest mass movement in black history. He believed that blacks would never be accepted in America and she go back to where they could live in peace, or Africa
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For the first time in American history, the urban population is larger than the rural population.
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Baseball! Baseball was the only sport with racial integration in that time.
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The first commercial broadcast was aired on election day of 1920. This was a momentous day, as the people could hear live who won instead of reading it in the newspaper days later. Other Radio related facts;
First commercial radio station; KDKA
Transatlantic broadcasting
Network broadcasting over thousands of miles
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The Wall Street Bombing resulted in the instant killing of 30 people and a later death total of 38. The mystery was never solved of who did it, some say that it was Italian anarchists, but the answer is unknown.
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The Charleston was invented and filled the dance halls. The Flapper girls became more prominent wearing their short skirts, and risque attire and behavior. Poets of the 20's were writing Avant-Garde, a style that disobeyed all original poem rules. Germans were listening to the popular Jazz music that America were also listening to, a music that was fun, instead of formal. Plays were also defying the norms and were centered more around communicating emotion, than what actual happens day to day.
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Membership in the Ku Klux Klan sky rocketed in the 1920s
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The Red Scare was the fear of communism in the US.
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No more alcohol! It is now illegal to sell alcohol...but you can still drink it if you can get it! You can guess how many people follow this law. (1920-1933)
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Nationalist and Communist Chinese troops battle among themselves for control of the mainland resistance to British rule in India.
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President Warren Harding's presidency
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Urban population exceeds rural population for the 1st time in the US history.
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Michael Collins, born in 1890, head of the Irish Free State is assassinated.
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King Tut's Tomb was discovered by the British Archaeologist, Howard Carter.
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Mohandas (Mahatma ) Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru’s leadership of a mostly non-violent
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In 1923 the Republic of Turkey is founded as the Ottoman empire was dessimated by WWI
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Pancho Villa was assassinated in his automobile when he was going into town for ranch business
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This earthquake located in Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan, killed over 140,000 people, one of the biggest earthquakes in history.
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The first ever Winter Olympic games took place in Haute-Savoie, France. This was also the first Olympics to ever have women participate in them. Some participants, and winners, were as young as 11 years old.
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Greece becomes a republic and is no longer a monarchy. King Constantinople had to abdicate for his son, a second time, George II. Later King George II was told to leave the country, and Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaimed Greece to be the Second Hellenic Republic.
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In 1926 the first television was invented. The television transmits live, moving images with sound.
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Charles Lindbergh, the first time in history, crossed the Atlantic ocean in one flight
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In 1928 modern antibiotics were discovered as they introduced a small amount of a disease into your body, your body fights it off, and then remembers how to if it is infected with it later.
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Total industrial revitalization in Russia
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Franklin D. Roosevelt became the governor of New York City.
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Herbert Hoover, a Republican, becomes president of the U.S. in a landslide victory.
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Amelia Earhart flies solo over Atlantic Ocean, and is the first woman to do so.
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1929's Valentines day was one of the bloodiest in mob history with 7 men being killed. The gunning happened because Al Capone wanted to be in control of Chicago, and the only way to do that was to get rid of the current gang.
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So many people's shares were traded by panicked investors that it sparks the Great Depression
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In 1929 in Germany, their money was worth so little that it costed millions of dollars for every-day necessities. Their money was worth so little because they lost the war, and were forced to pay people off, and try to rebuild their own country, but they didn't have any money left, so they just printed more.
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The Great Depression was a time of long and severe recession of the American economy. This happened in the US for many reasons including the crash of the stock market, the dust bowl, banks failure, no new businesses, and unemployment. Everyone wanted jobs, but no one could supply them, so some people resolved to bartering.
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Mussolini was assassinated by the Italian Communists in 1945, and was attempted assassination in 1926 by anarchists and members of the Giustizia e Libertá groups of the Action Party.
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This year marks the launching of the first liquid fuel rocket by Robert Goddard
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Mussolini receives the majority vote in Italy.
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Scientists analyze “Java Man” skull dating it at 700,000 years old
