3.1 1920's DECADE:
The decade of the 1920s featured economic prosperity and carefree living for many. The decade began with a roar and ended with a crash.
“It was the best of times, and sometimes it was the worst of times.”
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
The 1920s was a decade of change, when many Americans owned cars, radios, and
telephones for the first time. The cars brought the need for good roads. The radio brought
the world closer to home. The telephone connected families and friends. Prosperity was
on the rise in cities and towns, and social change flavored the air.
The 1920’s was the decade of entertainment. Rin-Tin-Tin, the movie dog, used to be a starving German Shepherd dog during the Great War. He became most famous dog ever to star in the movies in 1923.1920 - November 2: First Radio broadcast; President Warren Harding elected; women get their first vote
1921 - September 8: First Miss America pageant held in Atlantic City; November 11: Unknown soldier of World War I buried
1922 - November 26: Archaeologist Howard Carter finds tomb of Tutankhamen near Luxor, Egypt
1923 - August 2: President Harding dies; August 3: Vice President Calvin Coolidge is sworn into office as president
1924 - February 3: Former President Woodrow Wilson dies; November 4: Calvin Coolidge is elected President
1925 - October 2: Scottish inventor John Baird invents the first form of a television
1927 - First talking movie, The Jazz Singer released; May 20: Spirit of St. Louis and pilot Charles Lindbergh land in Paris
1928 - September 19: First Mickey Mouse talking film, Steamboat Willie, released by Walt Disney; November 6: Herbert Hoover elected President
1929 - October 24: Start of the Stock Market Crash
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