1920s facts for kids
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s 1950s |
| Years: | 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 |
| Categories: | Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments |
The 1920s was the decade that started on January 1, 1920 and ended on December 31, 1929. This decade was known as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age.
The most important events
- Golden Twenty
- 1920 – Prohibition began in the United States.
- 1922 – March on Rome
- 1922 – Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the Egyptian King Tutankhamun.
- 1922 – Southern Ireland gained independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1929 – The Black Tuesday, which leads to Great Depression
Important people
World leaders
- Prime Minister Stanley Bruce (Australia)
- Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada)
- President Sun Yat-sen (Republic of China)
- President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China)
- President Friedrich Ebert (Germany)
- President Paul von Hindenburg (Germany)
- Ahmad Shah Qajar of Qajar dynasty (Persia/Iran)
- Reza Shah Pahlavi of Pahlavi Dynasty (Iran)
- King Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)
- Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy)
- President W.T. Cosgrave (Irish Free State)
- President Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) (Turkey)
- Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
- Pope Pius XI
- Józef Piłsudski (Poland)
- Vladimir Lenin (Soviet Union)
- Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
- King Alfonso XIII (Spain)
- 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)
- Charlie Chaplin (entertainer)
- Albert Einstein (German physicist)
- Paul von Hindenburg (president of Germany)
- King George V (King of the United Kingdom)
- Vladimir Lenin (leader of the USSR)
- Pope Pius XI (Pope in the 1920s)
- Joseph Stalin (leader of the USSR)
- King Victor Emmanuel III (king of Italy)
Images for kids
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Crowd gathering after the Wall Street Crash of 1929
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The most memorable fashion trend of the Roaring Twenties was undoubtedly "the flapper" look.
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The period from the end of the First World War until the start of the Depression in 1929 is known as the "Jazz Age"
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Albert Einstein, 1921
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1929
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Charlie Chaplin during the 1920s
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Buster Keaton in the 1922 short film The Frozen North
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Irving Berlin (left) and Al Jolson, c. 1927
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D. W. Griffith at a rolltop desk, c. 1925
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Frank Lloyd Wright, 1926
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Babe Ruth in 1920
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Robert Goddard and his rocket, 1926
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1920s phone
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M1 Thompson rifle (1921 model)
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In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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Howard Carter opens the innermost shrine of King Tutankhamun's tomb near Luxor, Egypt, 1922
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See also
In Spanish: Años 1920 para niños
