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Irish Revolutionary War
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The idea of a public radio began to take hold in America
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's first book, This Side of Paradise, was published.
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Women are granted voting rights
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women began wearing short skirts (up to the knees)
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Economic Boom/ Roaring Twenties
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The Jazz Age
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People would dance for fun. Dances like the Fox Trot and the Shimmy
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Teens wnet and would alter their dresses to look more flapperish
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Dance competitions were very serious, some even dropped dead.
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Swing dancing, everybody was doing it. You would be crazy not to do it.
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Tabloids were characterised by scandal and crime
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silent movies were very popular they provided great entertainment
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National Football League formed; Baseball's Negro National Leauge formed; Babe Ruth sold to New York Yankees and hit 54 home runs
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The Great Steel Strike of 1919 ends with capitulation by the steelworkers
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Otto Dix, a german painter, painted WOrking class boy
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Cotton prices at New Orleans peak at 42 cents a pound, prompting Southern farmers to plant the largest crop in history.
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painter Max Beckmann painted the Caarnival
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Republican Warren G. Harding is elected to the presidency
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Picasso paints Three Musicians
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Federal Government gives more aid for farm-to-market roads
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The first robot is built
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Congress passes immigration restrictions
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Wonder Bread deputed
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After performing poorly in the elections of 1922, 1923 and 1924, the Liberal Party was superseded by the Labour Party as the party of the left.
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The cartoon, “Four Musicians of Bremen”, is released by Walt Disney.
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Irish Civil War; Turkish War for Independence
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The first public radio broadcasting station opened in Pittsburg, PA
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In 1922, she launched the fragrance Chanel No. 5, which remains popular to this day.
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Congress passes the Fordney-McCumber Tariff, sharply raising tariff duties to protect the American market for American manufactures.
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King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy invited Benito Mussolini to form
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Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
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roughly 3 million Americans owned radios by 1923.
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Time magazine first debuted
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Hoch-Smith Resolution requires the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to consider agricultural conditions in setting railroad rates
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Bauhaus in Dessau construction begins
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The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was published
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The Grand Ole Opry was transmitted on the radio from Nashville in 1925.
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Luois armstrong had his frist recording
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Airports established
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Amuesment rides introduced
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First Ryder Cup for golf established
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Harold Stephen Black revolutionized the field of apllied electronics by inventing the negative feedback amplifier
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Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.
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Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are invented
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Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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The circus, a silnet movie, was a movie tat Chalrie Chaplin stared in.
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Women's Olymic Athletics and gymnastics are held for the first time at the 1928 Summer Olympics
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Fifteen nations, including the United States, sign the Kellogg-Briand pact "outlawing" war. The unenforceable pact will be made a mockery through the rise of European fascist states in the 1930s.
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Bridesmaids gowns of 1929 have knee-length underskirts and longer, sheer over skirts, foreshadowing the trend toward longer skirts
