The 1920s

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Marie Agostinelli

Timeline of the 1920 Era

Great Depression
begins
First Winter Olympics

Great Gatsby
published
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1920

Women granted
right to vote

1921

1922

1923

1924

1925

1926

1927

Flappers begin
to emerge

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1928

1929

Women Gain the

Right to Vote

Carrie Chapman Catt

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Alice Paul

National American Woman Suffrage

Association (NAWSA)

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Fashion of the 1920s

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Famous Literature and

Art of the 1920s

Georgia OKeeffe

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Entertainment and
Sports of the 1920s

First Commercial Radio Broadcast in 1920

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (Famous Flapper)

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Bessie Smith (Blues Singer)

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Helen Wills (Womens tennis player, won the US

Open seven times and Wimbledon eight times)

Gertrude Ederle (First women to swim

the English Chanel in 1926)
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First Winter Olympics in 1924

First Mickey Mouse cartoon in 1928

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