1928
Late jazz age
1928 is the year, used attributively to mark things from that time: a 1928 Model A Ford, the 1928 Olympic Games.
In American political history, 1928 saw the first Catholic presidential nominee (Al Smith) and Herbert Hoover's election.
The year often evokes the final boom before the 1929 crash and Great Depression.
1920s modern young women
- speakeasiesIllicit liquor establishments
- CharlestonSouthern Atlantic port city
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- bootleggersIllicit liquor traffickers
Gatsby · Harlem Renaissance · Roaring Twenties · phonograph · radio · Model T · bobbed hair · jazz clubs
- Alexander FlemingPenicillin's discoverer
- Amelia EarhartVanished female pilot
- Babe RuthLegendary Yankees slugger
- Louis ArmstrongPioneering jazz trumpeter, singer
Walt Disney · Al Capone · Duke Ellington · Joseph Stalin · Chiang Kai-shek · Margaret Mead · Bertolt Brecht · D.H. Lawrence
Unproven theorizing or risky investment
- overconfidenceUnjustified certainty in oneself
- bull marketPeriod of rising prices
- consumerismPreoccupation with acquiring goods
- economic boomSustained period of growth
prosperity · mass production · installment buying · margin trading · wealth inequality · industrial growth · optimism · luxury spending
Treaty outlawing aggressive warfare
- The Jazz SingerFirst feature with speech
- Steamboat WillieFirst cartoon with synchronized sound
flappers
1920s modern young women
- speakeasiesIllicit liquor establishments
- CharlestonSouthern Atlantic port city
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
bootleggers · Gatsby · Harlem Renaissance · Roaring Twenties · phonograph · radio · Model T · bobbed hair · jazz clubs · gin joints
Herbert Hoover
- Alexander FlemingPenicillin's discoverer
- Amelia EarhartVanished female pilot
- Babe RuthLegendary Yankees slugger
Walt Disney · Al Capone · Louis Armstrong · Duke Ellington · Joseph Stalin · Chiang Kai-shek · Margaret Mead · Bertolt Brecht · D.H. Lawrence · Charles Lindbergh
speculation
Unproven theorizing or risky investment
- overconfidenceUnjustified certainty in oneself
- bull marketPeriod of rising prices
- consumerismPreoccupation with acquiring goods
economic boom · prosperity · mass production · installment buying · margin trading · wealth inequality · industrial growth · optimism · luxury spending · easy credit
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Treaty outlawing aggressive warfare
- The Jazz SingerFirst feature with speech
- Steamboat WillieFirst cartoon with synchronized sound