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Timeline 1900-2021, part 3: 1920-1929
Josef Stalin (Wikipedia). Lindbergh with the Spirit of St. Louis, before his 1927 transatlantic flight. Walter Gropius, Bauhaus, 1925 (Wikipedia).

Timeline 1900-2021, part 3: 1920-1929

Third of 12 posts with an illustrated decade-by-decade timeline for the years 1900 to 2021. For more on the timeline and a link to the book on Amazon, see here. This post is available as a video at https://youtu.be/DJcbLFB0qig.

1920-1929

This post is a teaser, not the full text for 1920-1929.

Among the events of this decade:

  • 1920s are “the Roaring Twenties,” and the younger generation is the “Lost Generation”.
  • 1925-1926 Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
  • 1927 Charles Lindbergh makes first transatlantic airplane flight.
  • 1928 With the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the US, Germany, France, and others promise not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be.”
  • Dow Jones Industrial Average rises tenfold in 10 years.
  • Bestselling books include Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt and Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
  • Film stars: Mary Pickford, Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks.
  • Cutting-edge architecture: the Bauhaus in Germany.
  • Cutting-edge painting: Rene Magritte, Ce n’est pas une pipe.
  • Music: dance marathons, Jerome Kern’s Showboat, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and first live broadcast of a band (1921).
Josef Stalin (Wikipedia). Lindbergh with the Spirit of St. Louis, before his 1927 transatlantic flight. Walter Gropius, Bauhaus, 1925 (Wikipedia).
Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik, 1921. Frishmuth, The Vine, 1923. Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1925. Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue, 1924.

Feedback I’d appreciate from you on the PDF of 1920-1929

  • Have I listed all the most significant events for this decade? Space is limited and there’s room for disagreement, but do tell me if you think anything important is missing. In case you want to add events important to you, I’ve allowed some blank space on every set of facing pages.
  • I have not read all the books I mention nor listened to all the musical styles. Are any of the facts or descriptions wrong? Corrections welcome.
  • I’d like to include major events in areas such as education, psychology, Supreme Court decisions, and sports. If you can boil down those or similar fields to a half-dozen significant events from 1900 to 2021, send them to me and I’ll try to work them in.
  • Of course, point out typos, bad grammar, messy syntax, and so on.

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