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1920 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1920th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 920th year of the 2nd millennium, the 20th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of ...
Kalenderübersicht 1920. Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Ereignisse. 1.1 Politik und Weltgeschehen. 1.1.1 Deutsches Reich. 1.1.2 Die Nachfolgestaaten Österreich-Ungarns. 1.1.3 Polen/Sowjetunion. 1.1.3.1 Polnisch-Sowjetischer Krieg. 1.1.3.2 Weitere Ereignisse. 1.1.4 Osmanisches Reich und seine Nachfolgestaaten. 1.1.5 Griechenland. 1.1.6 Portugal.
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The Roaring Twenties, sometimes stylized as Roaring '20s, refers to the 1920s decade in music and fashion, as it happened in Western society and Western culture.
- Mainly the United States, (equivalents and effects in the greater Western world)
- Social History
- Politics and Wars
- Economics
- Natural Disasters
- Assassinations and Attempts
- Science and Technology
- Popular Culture
- People
- See Also
- References
The Roaring Twenties brought about several novel and highly visible social and cultural trends. These trends, made possible by sustained economic prosperity, were most visible in major cities like New York, Chicago, Paris, Berlin, and London. "Normalcy" returned to politics in the wake of hyper-emotional patriotism during World War I, jazz blossome...
Wars
1. Turkish War of Independence 1.1. Greco-Turkish War(May 1919 – October 1922) 1.2. Turkish–Armenian War(September–December 1920) 1.3. Franco-Turkish War(December 1918 – October 1921) 1.4. Royalist and separatist revolts(1919–1923) 2. Unification of Saudi Arabia 2.1. Rashidi–Saudi War(1903–1921) 2.2. Kuwait–Saudi War(1919–1920) 2.3. Hejaz–Saudi War(1919–1925) 2.4. Transjordan-Saudi War(1922–1924) 3. Polish–Soviet War(February 1919 – March 1922) 4. Irish War of Independence(January 1919 – July...
Internal conflicts
1. Russian Civil War (November 1917 – October 1922) 1.1. Tambov Rebellion(August 1920 – June 1921) 1.2. Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War(1918–1925) 2. Patagonia Rebelde(1920–1922) 3. Mahmud Barzanji revolts(1920–1922) 4. Irish Civil War(June 28, 1922 – May 24, 1923) 5. Cristero Warin Mexico (1926-1929) 6. Chinese Civil War(first phase 1927–1936) 7. Ararat rebellion(1927–1930) 8. Kongo-Wara rebellion(1928–1931) 9. Afghan Civil War(November 14, 1928 – October 13, 1929)
Major political changes
1. Rise of radical political movements such as communism led by the Soviet Union and fascism led by Italy. 2. League of Nationsand associated bodies as experiments in international cooperation and prevention of wars
Economic boom ended by "Black Tuesday" (October 29, 1929); the stock market crashes, leading to the Great Depression. The market actually began to drop on Thursday October 24, 1929, and the fall co...The New Economic Policy is created by the Bolsheviks in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, to be replaced by the first five-year planin 1928.The Dawes Plan, through which the U.S. made significant loans to Germany in order to help stabilize its economy and make war reparationspayments, was enacted in 1924.Average annual inflation for the decade was virtually zero but individual years ranged from a high of 3.47% in 1925 to a deflationary −11% in 1921.The Great Kantō earthquake struck the main Japanese island of Honshū on 1 September 1923. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale.The 1920 Haiyuan earthquake struck central China on 16 September with a magnitude of 8.2 on the moment magnitude scale, killing 273,407.The 1922 Shantou typhoon killed upwards of 100,000 people in southern China.The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane killed 4,112 people in the Caribbean and the United States, resulting in major flooding around Lake Okeechobee.Prominent assassinations, targeted killings, and assassination attempts include: 1. Walther Rathenau, Foreign Minister of Germany is assassinated by Ernst Werner Techow, Erwin Kern, and Hermann Willibald Fischer, all members of Organisation Consulon June 24, 1922. 2. Francisco "Pancho" Villa, a Mexican Revolutionarygeneral is assassinated by a grou...
Technology
1. John Logie Baird invents the first working mechanical television system (1925). In 1928, he invents and demonstrates the first color television. 2. Warner Brothers produces the first movie with a soundtrack Don Juan in 1926, followed by the first Part-Talkie The Jazz Singer in 1927, the first All-Talking movie Lights of New York in 1928 and the first All-Color All-Talking movie On with the Show, 1929. Silent films start giving way to sound films. By 1936, the transition phase arguably ends...
Science
1. Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (May 20–21, 1927), nonstop from New York to Paris. 2. Howard Carter opens the innermost shrine of King Tutankhamun's tomb near Luxor, Egypt, 1922 3. Insulin was first used as a medication in Canada by Charles Best and Frederick Bantingin 1922. 4. In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin 1. In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin 2. Howard Carter opens the innermost shrine of King Tutankhamun's t...
Film
Silent films were popular in this decade, with the highest-grossing film of this decade being either 1925 American silent epic adventure-drama film Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ or the 1925 American silent war drama film The Big Parade, depending of metrics used: Ben-Hur grossed more during its initial release, but The Big Paradeultimately grossed more via re-releases. 1. Oscar winners: Wings (1927–1928), The Broadway Melody (1928–1929), All Quiet on the Western Front(1929–1930) 2. First feat...
Fashion
The 1920s is the decade in which fashion entered the modern era. It was the decade in which women first abandoned the more restricting fashionsof past years and began to wear more comfortable clothes (such as short skirts or trousers). Men also abandoned highly formal daily attire and even began to wear athletic clothing for the first time. The suits men wear today are still based, for the most part, on those worn in the late 1920s. The 1920s are characterized by two distinct periods of fashi...
Music
1. The "Jazz Age"—jazzand jazz-influenced dance music became widely popular throughout the decade. 2. George Gershwin wrote Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris. 3. Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti were the first musicians to incorporate the guitar and violininto jazz.
Architects
1. Marcel Breuer 2. Le Corbusier 3. Walter Gropius 4. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 5. Frank Lloyd Wright
Sources
1. Block, Alex Ben; Wilson, Lucy Autrey (2010). George Lucas's Blockbusting: A Decade-by-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-196345-2. 2. Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6. 3. Hall, Sheldon (15 April 2010). Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-3697-7.
Die 1920er-Jahre (kurz Zwanzigerjahre oder 20er-Jahre) begannen mit dem 1. Januar 1920 und endeten mit dem 31. Dezember 1929. Das Jahrzehnt wird auch, vor allem für die Jahre ab 1924, als „ Goldene Zwanziger “ bezeichnet. Das Jahrzehnt war von einer gesellschaftlichen wie politischen Zeitenwende nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg geprägt.
Advertising revenue as a percent of US GDP shows a rise in audio-visual and digital advertising at the expense of print media. [1] The history of advertising can be traced to ancient civilizations. It became a major force in capitalist economies in the mid-19th century, based primarily on newspapers and magazines.
Background image. Vintage Advertisement for the Ford Motor Company, Photoplay magazine, July 1925. Ford's Automobile - video. Adapted from A Science Odyssey: "Bigger, Better, Faster". Photographs and footage courtesy of Getty, Henry Ford Museum and NARA.
