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n May 21, 1927, the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Lindbergh was just 25 years old when he completed the trip.
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Henry Ford developed the mass-produced automobile, which sold at an affordable price. It pioneered the use of the assembly line.
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In the 1920 presidential election, Republican nominee Warren G Harding campaigned on the promise of a "return to normalcy," which would mean a return to conservative values and a turning away from President Wilson's internationalism.
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A period of African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished such as the poetry produced by Langston Hughes.
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Caused hysteria and Intense fear of communism and other politically radical ideas in America.
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Harding Administration secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land. Public angry because of corruption in government.
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Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953.
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The trial pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against teaching Bible creationism in schools.
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, as it is now called, was the culmination of a gang war between arch rivals Al Capone and Bugs Moran.
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Black Tuesday was the fourth and last day of the stock market crash of 1929. It took place on October 29, 1929. Investors traded a record 16.4 million shares. They lost $14 billion on the New York Stock Exchange, worth $206 billion in 2019 dollars.
