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Exploring the 1920s: A Decade of Change

This quiz explores significant events, figures, and cultural shifts of the 1920s, a transformative decade in history.

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1 This was due to rapid ________ starting in the 1920s.

2 Growth and general acceptance of the ________ in America.

3 President ________ (Republic of China)

4 President ________ (Ireland)

5 President ________ (United States)

6 The Fascist regime establishes a ________ state led by Mussolini as a dictator.

7 Reza Shah Pahlavi of ________ (Iran)

8 ________ (French tennis player)

9 ________ (American baseball player)

10 ________ becomes the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (May 20–21, 1927), non-stop from New York to Paris, France.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in the 1920s, Cudahy Packing Company shifted from exporting cured pork because of British tariffs and focused instead on domestic sales of canned hams, sliced dried beef, Italian-style sausage, and sliced bacon.
  • the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (pictured), by the time of its construction in 1912 was the tallest building in Warsaw, Poland, but was demolished less than 15 years after its construction, in the mid-1920s.
  • the ethnic population of Omaha, Nebraska, including new and first generation immigrants, comprised fifty percent of that city's population in the 1920s.
  • the Squirrel Nut Zippers were influenced by the energetic sounds of 1920s hot jazz.
  • collecting Toyon branches for Christmas became so popular in Los Angeles, California in the 1920s, that the state passed a law forbidding collecting.
  • because of an effort to curb the spread of STDs, prostitution in Germany has been legal since the 1920s.
  • British cricketer Michael Spurway was thought to be the oldest surviving county cricket player at the time of his death, and the last living person to have played county cricket in the 1920s.
  • vaudeville performer Birdie Reeve was billed as the "World's Fastest Typist" in the 1920s, typing 200 words a minute using just two fingers of each hand.
  • George E. Studdy was a British artist best remembered for his creation of Bonzo the dog, a fictional character, in the early 1920s.
  • PWS-10 designed in late 1920s was the first Polish fighter to enter serial production.
  • U.S. Army General James Harbord, who commanded the United States Marine Corps' 4th Marine Brigade at the Battle of Belleau Wood during World War I, was President of RCA in the 1920s when it formed NBC and RKO Pictures.
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