Used with AQA Examboard - Yr 12 AS Level. Prosperity in the 1920s.
1) Rhapsody in Blue -- one of the most famous jazz compositions of all time by George Gershwin
2) The Chrysler Building -- Empire State Building
3) Charlie Chaplin -- most famous comedian ever
4) Ford T Model -- began to be built in 1920s as a 'people's car'
5) Baird's TV -- Baird creates both the first working B+W and colour duing this decade
6) All Quiet on the Western Front -- a famous book and movie during this time
7) Weimar Germany -- outside America Germany is in crisis after WW1
8) Greta Garbo -- One of the most iconic actresses of the era who moved from silent to talkies.
9) Babe Ruth -- famous baseball player. Baceball is a national obsession.
10) Bessie Smith -- the Empress of Blues
11) Birdseye Frozen meals -- Birdseye pioneer frozen ready meals
12) Charles Lindbergh -- solo non-stop flight over the atlantic
13) Lights of New York -- Talkies
14) Al Capone -- mafia crime don
15) Einstein -- Theory of Relativity
16) Women's suffrage -- women were fighting for the right to vote during the 20s
17) Flappers -- as a way of getting back at the victorian ideals, women were liberated through shorter hemlines, loose fitting clothes, smoking, make-up and shorter hair.
18) The Great Gatsby -- famous book written at the time about social problems in America
19) Harlem Renaissance -- a cultural movement that began in Harlem in New York focusing on black culture and writers.
20) Houdini -- most famous escape artist the world has known.
21) Hoover -- although most famous for what he does later, Hoover was an influential figure in the 20s.
22) Mussolini -- in Italy Mussolini has taken over.
23) Al Jonson and Hollywood -- 'The World's Greatest Performer'
24) KKK -- racist organisation
25) Bolsheviks -- Bolsheviks have taken over in Russia.
26) Art Deco -- new movement moves away from previous styles to a more abstract style.
27) Louis Armstrong -- jazz musician.
28) Mahjong -- game borrowed from China that became popular.
29) Mahjong
30) Men's fashion
31) Of Mice and Men -- famous book on immigtation from rural areas to the towns in this period.
32) Prohibition
33) Radio -- invented during the decade
34) Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- immigrant anarchists -- during Red Scare -- falsely accused of murder -- put to death in 1927
35) Surrealism -- Dali is painting during the period as well as Picasso.
36) Scopes trial -- Evolutionism vs. Creationism.
37) Freud -- father of modern psychology. Had issues with his mother.
38) Wall St Crash -- economic meltdown.
39) Winnie the Pooh -- A.A. Milne publishes Winnie the Pooh in this period.
