1921

Post-war jazz era

1921 is the year following 1920 and preceding 1922.

Like other year numbers, it functions as a noun identifying a specific point in time: The treaty was signed in 1921.

Years also work as modifiers: the 1921 census, a 1921 vintage.

historical

Treaty of Versailles

1919 settlement ending WWI

Warren G. Harding · Rorschach test · British Empire · Weimar Republic · Red Scare · Bolsheviks · White Russians · Anatolia · Bloody Sunday · Anglo-Irish Treaty

economic

unemployment

Being without paid work

coal strikes · trade disruption · demobilization · war debts · reparations · bank failures · Fordism · mass production · assembly line · consumer goods

Opposites
temporal distance from present

19212024

Current calendar year

2025 · the present · today · now · 2023

historical era character

19212021

Twenty-twenty-one

future vs. past

19213000

Numeral after 2999

2050 · 2100 · tomorrow

Familiarity
Top 200,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G