Occasionally known as a "Jazz Age" or primarily in North America as the "Roaring Twenties" . Inside Europe these are periodically refered to when a Golden Twenties. Watch 1920s Berlin.

Since a closing of the 20th Century, the 1920s has drawn close associations with a 1990s, and particularly in the United States. This imputable a fact two decades were considered super economically prosperous days, & the prosperity which lasted throughout near the entire decade as a result a wow event at the closing of the former decade (World War I and Spanish flu in the late 1910s, and a prevent of the Cold War in the late 1980s).

Despite the comparisons, nonetheless, there were a total of differences. First off, Gernumerous, prefer many more European countries, experienced to face a severe economic downswing in a opening years of the decade, due to the tremendous debt from either the war also when the a single-slanted Versailles Treaty. As well, a decade was characterized per rise of radical political movements, especially within regions that were when a portion of empires. Communism began acheiving large many followers ensuing a profits of the October Revolution and the Bolsheviks' ability to win the subsequent Russian Civil War. A Bolsheviks would one of these days adopt semi-capitalist policies from either 1921 to 1928. A Twenties too had a rise of the far-right in Europe and elsewhere, starting with Italy, and were perceived by a bit of in the Western world as an antidote to Communism.

a cycle endwise a super sad note whilst the Stock exchange collapsed inside October 1929 (look at Black Tuesday). Technology
John T. Thompson invents Thompson submachine gun, also known as "Tommy gun" John Logie Baird invents the number 1 working mechanical television system (1925) Charles Lindbergh becomes a number one individual to fly solo non-prevent through the Atlantic Ocean (20 May-21 May 1927) Penicillin is discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming (1928) Philo T. Farnsworth invents the modern electronic CRT television Insulin is discovered by Frederick Banting during the wintertime of 1921-1922

Science
Nifty advances within quantum mechanics Wave mechanics and the Schrödinger equation Werner Heisenberg formulates the uncertainty principle Paul Dirac's unification of quantum mechanics with special relativity Prediction & discovery of the expanding universe

War, peace and politics
Rise of communism after World War I A Red Scare in the United States (1920-1921) In the United States, peak of the Ku Klux Klan (about 5 million members) Irish Civil War A Irish Free State gains independence from a United Kingdom in 1922 Turkish War of Independence Polish-Soviet war Number one Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald formed in the United Kingdom Kellogg-Briand Pact to end war

Economics
Economic boom ended by "Black Tuesday" (October 29, 1929); the stock market crashes, leading to the Great Depression

Culture, religion
Youth culture of The Lost Generation; flappers, Charleston, bobbed hair Women's suffrage movement continues to make gains as women obtain full voting rights in the United States in 1920, in Denmark in 1921, and in England in 1928; and women begin to enter the workplace in larger numbers Prohibition — legal attempt to end consumption of alcohol in Canada, the USA, and Finland In the Usa, gangsters and the rise of organized crime, often associated sustaining bootleg liquor, in defiance of Prohibition "The Jazz Age" — jazz and jazz-influenced dance music widely popular Number one commercial radio station in the U.S. goes on the internet around Pittsburgh, in 1922, & radio quickly becomes the popular amusement medium Begin of commercially viable "Talking Pictures" (motion pictures with sound tracks) Beginning of surrealist movement Beginning of the Art Deco movement Furore like dance marathons, mah-jongg, crossword puzzles and pole-sitting are popular A Harlem Renaissance A Scopes Trial (1925) which questioned evolution

People
World leaders
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada) 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) President W.T. Cosgrave (Irish Free State) President Mustafa Kemal(Attaturk) (Turkey) 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 Andrew Bonar Law (United Kingdom) Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (United Kingdom) Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald (United Kingdom) President Woodrow Wilson (United States) President Warren G. Harding (United States) President Calvin Coolidge (United States) President Herbert Hoover (United States)

Entertainers
Charlie Chaplin George Gershwin Duke Ellington Fletcher Henderson Al Jolson Jelly Roll Morton Cole Porter Bessie Smith Rudy Vallee Paul Whiteman Louis Armstrong Eddie Cantor Helen Kane Buster Keaton

Sports figures
Alex James (Arsenal & Scotland footballer) Babe Ruth (American baseball player) Bill Tilden (American tennis player) Bobby Jones (American golfer) Gordon Coventry (Australian Rules Football player) Herbert Sutcliffe (Yorkshire & England cricketer) Jack Dempsey (American boxer) Jack Hobbs (Surrey & England cricketer) Red Grange (American football player) Warwick Armstrong (Australian cricket captain) Wilfred Rhodes (Yorkshire & England cricketer)