1920 - 1929

1919 - 1933 Prohibition: a failed social experiment in the US. Started by a preacher Billy Sunday and ended with President Roosevelt. (Speakeasy: illegal drinking den)

art:

1900 - 1915 Cubism, Futurism, Expressionist

1915 - 1945 Dadaist, Surrealism

1945 - 1960 Socialist Realism, Pop Art

1960 - Conceptual art

Fun fact: Picasso has produced roughly 25,000 number of artworks.

1924 - 1927 Following Lenin's death, Stablin found a way to expell Trotsky from the Party and forced in to exile. Eventually he was assassinated in Mexico City by a Soviet agent. His family were either killed or imprisoned.

Stalin 1917 as People's commissar. Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#/media/File:Stalin_1917-1.1A.jpg

1928 Five-year plan

The victory of the five year plan is a strike against capitalism poster. Credit: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O111954/victory-of-the-5-year-poster-tzivchinskiy-nv/

1929 Collective farm

Soviet workers demonstrate on a collective farm in 1929. Their banner reads Liquidate the Kulaks as a Class. Credit: https://bearkunin.medium.com/peasantry-and-the-dictatorship-of-the-proletariat-part-3-betrayal-439df658129a

1932 Great famine

1935 Hero of labor Miner Alexei Stakhanov: he was said to have dug out a record of 102 tons of coal in just under six hours, 14 times his quota.

1938 The Great Purge: 700,000 were killed.

Nikolai Yezhov, pictured right of Stalin, was later removed from this photograph at the Moscow Canal. (Credit: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images & AFP/GettyImages)

1922 British archaeologist Howard Carter had been searching for Tutankhamun's tomb since 1914 and finally found it.

1908 - 1909 Young Turks revolted and overthrows the Ottoman Empire Sultan.

1919 - 1923 General Kemal won the war of independence and formed the modern Turkish Republic.

1922 -1924 German hyperinflation

German kids flying a kite made of worthless money during hyperinflation 1923. Credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/5fimet/german_kids_flying_a_kite_made_of_worthless_money/

1929 - 1941 The Great Depression

New York 1933. Offering to work 1 dollar for a week.
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