Roaring Twenties | Wikipedia audio article
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Roaring Twenties


00:02:44 1 Economy
00:04:05 1.1 New products and technologies
00:04:19 1.1.1 Automobiles
00:06:13 1.1.2 Radio
00:07:02 1.1.3 Cinema
00:07:54 1.1.3.1 Sound movies
00:11:33 1.1.4 Aviation
00:12:27 1.1.5 Television
00:13:40 1.1.6 Medicine
00:14:40 1.2 New infrastructure
00:16:44 2 Society
00:16:53 2.1 Suffrage
00:17:36 2.2 Lost Generation
00:18:26 2.3 Social criticism
00:19:37 2.4 Art Deco
00:20:17 2.5 Expressionism and surrealism
00:20:47 2.6 Cinema
00:23:02 2.7 Harlem
00:24:04 2.8 Jazz Age
00:25:43 2.9 Dance
00:29:13 2.10 Fashion
00:29:21 2.10.1 Attire
00:31:23 2.11 Sexuality of women during the 1920s
00:33:23 2.12 The changing role of women
00:39:19 2.13 Liberalism in Europe
00:40:21 2.14 Homosexuality
00:43:18 2.15 Psychoanalysis
00:44:30 3 Culture
00:44:38 3.1 Immigration restrictions
00:45:24 3.2 Prohibition
00:47:02 3.2.1 Rise of the speakeasy
00:48:03 3.3 Literature
00:49:11 3.4 Solo flight across the Atlantic
00:50:04 3.5 Sports
00:51:09 3.5.1 Olympics
00:52:18 3.5.2 Balkans
00:53:28 3.5.3 United States
00:55:18 3.6 Organized Crime
00:56:36 4 Culture of Weimar Germany
00:58:22 5 American politics
01:01:31 5.1 Decline of labor unions
01:02:54 5.2 Progressivism in 1920s
01:04:51 5.2.1 Business progressivism
01:06:38 6 Canadian politics
01:07:33 7 End of the Roaring Twenties
01:07:42 7.1 Black Tuesday
01:08:22 7.2 Repeal of Prohibition
01:08:52 8 See also



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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 Western Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, and Sydney. In France, the decade was known as the "années folles" ('crazy years'), emphasizing the era's social, artistic and cultural dynamism. Jazz blossomed, the flapper redefined the modern look for British and American women, and Art Deco peaked. Not everything roared: in the wake of the hyper-emotional patriotism of World War I, Warren G. Harding "brought back normalcy" to the politics of the United States. This period saw the large-scale development and use of automobiles, telephones, motion pictures, radio, and electrical appliances. Aviation became a business. Nations saw rapid industrial and economic growth, accelerated consumer demand, and significant changes in lifestyle and culture. The media focused on celebrities, especially sports heroes and movie stars, as cities rooted for their home teams and filled the new palatial cinemas and gigantic sports stadiums. In most major democratic states, women won the right to vote.
The social and cultural features known as the Roaring Twenties began in leading metropolitan centers, then spread widely in the aftermath of World War I. The United States gained dominance in world finance. Thus, when Germany could no longer afford to pay World War I reparations to the United Kingdom, France and the other Allied powers, the United States came up with the Dawes Plan, named after banker, and later 30th Vice President, Charles G. Dawes. Wall Street invested heavily in Germany, which paid its reparations to countries that, in turn, used the dollars to pay off their war debts to Washington. By the middle of the decade, prosperity was widespread, with the second half of the decade known, especially in Germany, as the "Golden Twenties".The spirit of the Roaring Twenties was marked by a general feeling of novelty associated with modernity and a break with tradition. Everything seemed to be feasible through modern technology. New technologies, especially automobiles, moving pictures, and radio, brought  "modernity" to a large part of the population. Formal decorative frills were shed in favor of practicality in both daily life and architecture. At the same time, jazz and dancing rose in popularity, in opposition to the mood of World War I. As such, the period is al ...