1927
Lindbergh's flight year
1927 was the year of the first successful transatlantic telephone call between New York and London.
The year also saw the release of The Jazz Singer, the first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue.
1920s modern young women
- Jazz Age1920s American cultural heyday
- speakeasiesIllicit liquor establishments
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- bootleggersIllicit liquor traffickers
Charleston · Harlem Renaissance · Louis Armstrong · Duke Ellington · Josephine Baker · F. Scott Fitzgerald · Gatsby · Al Capone
Pioneer solo oceanic flyer
- Spirit of St. LouisFamous solo flight aircraft
- transatlantic flightAircraft journey spanning Atlantic
- The Jazz SingerFirst feature with speech
- talkiesMovies with audible dialogue
Sacco and Vanzetti · Mount Rushmore · Babe Ruth · Holland Tunnel · iron lung
Prosperous 1920s era
- prosperityGood fortune, success
- Model TFirst mass-produced automobile
- Ford Motor CompanyMajor American vehicle manufacturer
- mass productionLarge-scale standardized fabrication
consumerism · automobiles · radios · economic growth · credit · advertising · assembly line · installment buying
- Soviet UnionFormer communist superstate
- Chiang Kai-shekChinese Nationalist leader
- KuomintangChinese nationalist political party
- GenevaSwiss seat of diplomacy
Joseph Stalin · Hirohito · League of Nations · Trotsky · fascism · Mussolini · anarchism · communism
flappers
1920s modern young women
- Jazz Age1920s American cultural heyday
- speakeasiesIllicit liquor establishments
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
bootleggers · Charleston · Harlem Renaissance · Louis Armstrong · Duke Ellington · Josephine Baker · F. Scott Fitzgerald · Gatsby · Al Capone · silent film
Charles Lindbergh
Pioneer solo oceanic flyer
- Spirit of St. LouisFamous solo flight aircraft
- transatlantic flightAircraft journey spanning Atlantic
- The Jazz SingerFirst feature with speech
talkies · Sacco and Vanzetti · Mount Rushmore · Babe Ruth · Holland Tunnel · iron lung
Roaring Twenties
Prosperous 1920s era
- prosperityGood fortune, success
- Model TFirst mass-produced automobile
- Ford Motor CompanyMajor American vehicle manufacturer
mass production · consumerism · automobiles · radios · economic growth · credit · advertising · assembly line · installment buying
Calvin Coolidge
- Soviet UnionFormer communist superstate
- Chiang Kai-shekChinese Nationalist leader
- KuomintangChinese nationalist political party
Joseph Stalin · Hirohito · Geneva · League of Nations · Trotsky · fascism · Mussolini · anarchism · communism · nationalism