<imagemap>File:1920s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise:
Third Tipperary Brigade Flying Column No. 2 under Sean Hogan during the
Irish Civil War; Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol in accordance to the
18th amendment, which made
alcoholic beverages illegal throughout the entire decade; In 1927, Charles Lindbergh embarks on the first solo nonstop flight from New York to Paris on the
Spirit of St. Louis; A crowd gathering on
Wall Street after the
1929 stock market crash, which led to the
Great Depression;
Benito Mussolini and
Fascist Blackshirts during the
March on Rome in 1922; the
People's Liberation Army attacking government defensive positions in
Shandong, during the
Chinese Civil War; The
Women's suffrage campaign leads to the ratification of the
19th amendment in the
United States and numerous countries granting women the
right to vote and be elected;
Babe Ruth becomes the most iconic baseball player of the time.|420px|thumb rect 1 1 298 178
Irish Civil War rect 302 1 572 178
Prohibition in the United States rect 1 181 194 400
Women's suffrage rect 198 181 395 399
Babe Ruth rect 399 182 572 401
Spirit of St. Louis rect 1 405 250 599
Chinese Civil War rect 255 404 416 599
March on Rome rect 419 405 572 598
1929 stock market crash </imagemap> The
1920s (pronounced “nineteen-twenties”, commonly abbreviated as the "
“Twenties”") was a
decade of the
Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1920 and ended on December 31, 1929. In
North America, it is frequently referred to as the “
Roaring Twenties” or the “
Jazz Age”, while in
Europe the period is sometimes referred to as the “Golden Age Twenties” because of the economic boom following
World War I. French speakers refer to the period as the
“années folles” (“Crazy Years”), emphasizing the era’s social, artistic, and cultural dynamism.