1929
Market collapse year
1929 functions as shorthand for the stock market crash of October 1929 and the economic catastrophe that followed.
When someone warns that current conditions look like 1929, they mean a financial collapse is imminent.
The year marks the beginning of the Great Depression in American memory.
Historic stock market crash
- Wall StreetAmerican finance hub
- stock market crashRapid decline in share prices
- Great Depression1930s global economic crisis
- speculationUnproven theorizing or risky investment
bubble · panic · collapse · downturn · bankruptcy · recession · unemployment · deflation
1920s modern young women
- speakeasiesIllicit liquor establishments
- CharlestonSouthern Atlantic port city
- Jazz Age1920s American cultural heyday
- Harlem RenaissanceBlack arts explosion, 1920s
Gatsby · F. Scott Fitzgerald · Louis Armstrong · Duke Ellington · Bessie Smith · hot jazz · swing · silent film
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- Kellogg-Briand PactTreaty outlawing aggressive warfare
- League of NationsEarly twentieth-century international body
- Tammany HallInfamous Democratic political machine
isolationism · tariffs · Smoot-Hawley · laissez-faire · Republican · conservatism
First mass-produced automobile
- FordMajor American automaker
- radio broadcastingAudio sent via frequencies
- talkiesMovies with audible dialogue
- aviationFlying or operating aircraft
Lindbergh · consumerism · mass production · assembly line · electrification · skyscraper · advertising · credit
Black Tuesday
Historic stock market crash
- Wall StreetAmerican finance hub
- stock market crashRapid decline in share prices
- Great Depression1930s global economic crisis
speculation · bubble · panic · collapse · downturn · bankruptcy · recession · unemployment · deflation · breadline
flappers
1920s modern young women
- speakeasiesIllicit liquor establishments
- CharlestonSouthern Atlantic port city
- Jazz Age1920s American cultural heyday
Harlem Renaissance · Gatsby · F. Scott Fitzgerald · Louis Armstrong · Duke Ellington · Bessie Smith · hot jazz · swing · silent film · talkies
Herbert Hoover
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- Kellogg-Briand PactTreaty outlawing aggressive warfare
- League of NationsEarly twentieth-century international body
Tammany Hall · isolationism · tariffs · Smoot-Hawley · laissez-faire · Republican · conservatism
Model T
First mass-produced automobile
- FordMajor American automaker
- radio broadcastingAudio sent via frequencies
- talkiesMovies with audible dialogue
aviation · Lindbergh · consumerism · mass production · assembly line · electrification · skyscraper · advertising · credit · installment buying
19291927
Late jazz age
irrational exuberance · gilded age · belle époque · euphoria · optimism