A to Z by Decade: 1920s

Substance banned in the United States by the 18th amendment

Term for smuggling of the above frequent during the Prohibition

Aviator who completed the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris in 1927

Pianist and composer who helped revolutionize swing music

Island in New York which was the primary immigration station for European migrants

Term for a rebellious, liberated woman in the 20s, many of whom wore short dresses and bobbed hair, and defied traditional social and sexual norms

Country which was known as the Weimar Republic

Explosion of black artistic, social, and cultural expression centered in 1920s New York

1924 US law passed which limited the number of immigrants based on national origin quotas

Expressive music style popular in the 1920s

Egyptian pharaoh whose tomb was discovered in 1922

Precursor to the United Nations founded in 1920

Form of entertainment which was enhanced by the addition of sound

1922 silent German horror film which served as an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Prominent empire which dissolved in 1922 after several centuries

Antibiotic drug first discovered by Alexander Flemming in 1928

Hygenic swab invented by Leo Gerstenzang in 1923

Term for 1920s stemming from the economic boom and lifestyle of excess and gaudiness

This crashed in October of 1929, leading to the Great Depression

Massive political corruption scandal in the United States involving the Harding administration

Major world power which refused to join L

First leader of the Soviet Union

Group granted the right to vote in the US from the 19th amendment

Nationalistic and anti-immigrant rhetoric which led to I, translating to “fear of outsiders”

New name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, which was adopted in 1929

Socialite and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was perhaps the most prominent example of F