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Decade - 1920s
This category has questions involving events, social trends, political beliefs, major discoveries, or general information related to the 1920s.
3,480 Questions
How was Helen Wills an influential figure during the 1920's?
Helen Wills (Moody) was an influential figure in the 1920s by being an amazing tennis player and winning over thirty-one Wimbledon titles during her fifteen years of playing. She influenced modern culture by changing the dress of tennis, which used to be floor length skirts with tights. Helen changed it to knee length, white, pleated skirts and a white visor. This was a trend that was made during the 1920s.
Why where many Americans fascinated with heroes in the 1920s?
This is a Thompson Question. I have no idea.
What group of Americans experienced the greatest social and economic changes during the war years?
women
What ways di the mass media and mass culture helped Americans create a community in the 1920s?
Sports, radio, and magazines made people feel that everyone had the same amount of exposure to information and was therefore "neighbors" with the people around them.
As the decade of the 1920's what were the indications of prosperity?
Many inventions (television, radio colour television, hearing aid, blow dryer, videophone, aerosol sprays, antibiotics... etc.), entertainment thrived and people just wanted to have fun (baseball and the movie industry grew in popularity as movies had colour and sound), many owned cars and around 15 million Model Ts were sold by Henry Ford by 1927), and the "Flappers," which were girls who shortened their dresses and had a free personality. These things show how well lives improved and the economy thrived.
What could you buy for 10 cents in 1917?
Basically, you could buy:
- Ice Cream Soda
- Sundae
- Egg Drinks
- Tonic Water
- Egg milk chocolate
- Coffee(iced or hot)
- Half a cantaloupe
- Sliced Orange
- Sliced Tomatoes
- Sliced Cucumbers
- Boston Baked Beans
- Corn on the Cob
- Salad
- Ice Cream
- Raspberries and Cream
- Veal (10 cents a pound)
- Duck, Dressed( 10 cents a pound)
- Turkey (10 cents a pound)
- Beef (10 cents a pound)
- Pork (10 cents a pound)
- A pond of dried apricots
- Starch
- Golden Cream Corn
- String Beans
- Early June Peas
- Jams
- Baking Powder
- Macaroni
- A yard of Madras Cloth
- Sewing Pattern
The media during the 1920s did its best to take news that happened around the country and turn it into a national affair. This brought the country together and gave it a sense of national community.
technology
Why were Americans of the 1920s and 1930s bitter toward Americas world war 1 allies?
they failed to repay their war debts to America
What are inventions from 1850 through 1920?
Some of the inventions created are the following:
1. Steam engine
2. telephone
3. telegraph
4. factory
5. steel
6. robotic machines to make good
7. first form of photography
8. airplane
9. automobile
10. barbed wire
11. light bulb
12. transcontinental railroad
What new methods did advertisers use in the 1920?
With the new interstate highways and state roads, they started using billboards.
How many cars were on the road in 1950?
Around 30 million cars were on the road in the US by 1950.
By 1929, 26 million cars were in use. That number was little changed by 1940 because of the Great Depression. After World War 2, in 1946, there were 25.8 million.
