When someone talks about the 1920's what comes to mind!?!? i already have flappers, jazz music, and the "roaring 20's"!. thanks!!Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The depression only began in 1929 and really hit during the 30s!. When I think of the 20s I think of Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, Women getting suffrage, post-war economy boomWww@QuestionHome@Com The Lost Generation!. There was an expatriot movement in the United States, particularly represented by our Literati!. T!.S!. Eliot, a St!. Louis boy originally, moved to Paris!. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald moved to France!. Ernest Hemingway was in Europe!. The war really confused people, they say!. It was the most devastating disaster to befall the world up until that time, with so many young men dead, wounded, or so psychologically damaged that they needed to be institutionalized!. A line from Eliot, to close: "I have seen the Eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and, in short, I was afraid"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Prohibition, Hemingway, Teapot Dome scandal, Weimar Republic, Scott Fitzgerald, silent movies, talkies!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Leopold & Loeb, Fatty Arbuckle and William Desmond Taylor!.Www@QuestionHome@Com There was also a Red Scare in the 1920s!. Sacco & Vanzetti were executed because of it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com the 1927 yankees, murderers row!.Www@QuestionHome@Com resession and the beginning of the depressionWww@QuestionHome@Com Gangsters and ProhibitionWww@QuestionHome@Com Britain with the biggest empire everWww@QuestionHome@Com the depressionWww@QuestionHome@Com wwithdrawing from europe and the promise of peace no more world warsWww@QuestionHome@Com |