1920s


Events and Trends

   * Rise of communism after World War I
   * Youth culture of The Lost Generation; Flappers, Charleston, Bobbed Hair
   * Economic boom ended by "Black Thursday" - October 24, 1929 - the stock
     market crashes, leading to the Great Depression
   * Southern Ireland gains independence from the United Kingdom in 1922.
   * First Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald formed in the United
     Kingdom.
   * Prohibition -- legal attempt to end consumption of alcohol in the USA
   * Kellogg-Briand Pact to end war
   * "The Jazz Age" -- Jazz and jazz-influenced dance music widely popular
   * Rise of broadcast radio as an entertainment medium
   * Start of commercially viable "Talking Pictures" (motion pictures with
     sound tracks)
   * Beginning of surrealist movement
   * Beginning of the Art Deco movement

World Leaders

   * President Sun Yat-sen (Republic of China)
   * President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China)
   * President Paul von Hindenburg (Germany)
   * King Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)
   * Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy)
   * Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
   * Pope Pius XI
   * Vladimir Lenin (Soviet Union)
   * Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
   * King George V (United Kingdom)
   * Prime Minister David Lloyd George (United Kingdom)
   * Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (United Kingdom)
   * President Woodrow Wilson (United States)
   * President Warren G. Harding (United States)
   * President Calvin Coolidge (United States)
   * President W.T. Cosgrave (Irish Free State)

Entertainers

   * Charlie Chaplin
   * George Gershwin
   * Duke Ellington
   * Fletcher Henderson
   * Al Jolson
   * Jelly Roll Morton
   * Cole Porter
   * Bessie Smith
   * Rudy Vallee
   * Paul Whiteman