1920s

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  • 2.5.1 Silent Film
  • 2.5.2 talkie
  • 2.6.1 hits of the 1920s
  • 3.1 policy
  • 3.2 Science
  • 3.3 Literature
  • 3.4 Music (composers )
  • 3.5 Music ( Stars )
  • 3.6 Visual Arts
  • 3.7 Performing Arts
  • 3.8 movie

Events

  • Introduction of radio, long wave, medium wave.
  • Golden Twenties.
  • Hyperinflation period of German inflation from 1914 to 1923, one of the most radical devaluations that has ever experienced a great industrial nation.
  • 8/9 November 1923: Hitler -Ludendorff Putsch.
  • Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic in 1927 in a non-stop flight.
  • 1919-1933: Prohibition in the United States.
  • October 25, 1929: on Black Friday (also: Black Thursday ), there is a drastic drop in prices on the New York Stock Exchange. As a result of this, the world plunges into the world economic crisis.
  • Independence of Ireland.
  • Rise of fascism under Benito Mussolini in Italy.
  • Weimar Republic.
  • Mustafa Kemal Atatürk formed Turkey.
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact.
  • Rise and spread of communism after World War II.

Cultural History

Science

  • John Logie Baird invented the first television system.
  • Advances in film technology. Warner Brothers produced the first feature film with soundtrack Don Juan ( 1926), the first halbvertonten feature film ( The Jazz Singer, 1927), the first vollvertonten movie ( Lights of New York, 1928 ) and the first full color turned vollvertonten movie ( On with the Show, 1929).
  • United Artists produce the first complete Technicolor Process No.. 2 turned feature film ( The Black Pirate, 1926).
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