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1920s
File:1920s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: Third Tipperary Brigade Flying Column No. 2 under Seán Hogan during the Irish War of Independence, 1920; prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol, 1921, in accordance with the 18th amendment, which made alcoholic beverages illegal in the United States throughout the entire decade; in 1927, Charles Lindbergh embarks on the first solo nonstop flight from New York to Paris on the Spirit of St. Louis; a crowd gathering on Wall Street after the 1929 stock market crash, which led to the Great Depression; Benito Mussolini and fascist Blacksh
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
Wall Street crash of 1929
major American stock market crash
Lost Generation
generation that came of age during World War I, born from 1883 to 1900
prohibition in the United States
constitutional ban on alcoholic beverages
Roaring Twenties
1920s period of sustained economic prosperity in Western Europe and North America
Jazz Age
American period in the 1920s and 1930s
1925 serum run to Nome
sled dog relay bringing antitoxin to Nome, Alaska
Golden Twenties
period in the 1920s in Germany of healthy economic growth, coupled with an expansion of liberal values, and a spurt in experimental and creative efforts in the arts
Années folles
socio-economic period of French history
café society
people who gathered in cafes and restaurants