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The Roaring Twenties were a period of rapid economic growth and social change. Read about flappers, Prohibition, the Harlem Renaissance and more.
The Roaring Twenties refers to the decade of the 1920s in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, and Sydney.
Mar 20, 2022 · Mar 20, 2022 • By Ching Yee Lin, BA (Hons) History. A decade synonymous with profound political, economic, and social change in the western world, the Roaring Twenties was an iconic era. The masses basked in novelty and exuberance as they welcomed advances in technology, art, and culture.
May 18, 2018 · The 1920s, also known as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age, were years of change as America recovered from World War I (1914–18) and embraced new ways of behaving and thinking. The decade is often associated with outrageousness.
Exuberant Americans kicked up their heels to jazz music, tried crazy stunts, and supported a black market in liquor after Prohibition. A popular expression of the time asked, “What will they think...
The Roaring Twenties, American crime drama film, released in 1939, that was one of the most popular of the many gangster films produced by Warner Brothers. It featured the final screen pairing of actors James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart.
The so-called Red Scares during the roaring twenties refer to the fear of Communism in the U.S. just before and during the 1920s. It is estimated that there were 150,000 anarchists or Communists in the U.S. in 1920, but they constituted only 0.1 percent of the general population.
