the roaring 20s - Timeline

women won the right to vote

then the adoption of the 19th amendment

prohibition began in the united states

the Irish Free State was declared after a five-year fight for independence from Britain

Benito Mussolini marched on Rome with 30,000 men and brought his fascist party to power in Italy

Kemal Ataturk founded modern Turkey, and the tomb of King Tut was discovered

Adolf Hitler was jailed after a failed coup in Germany.

The Charleston swept the nation, and Time magazine was founded.

In 1924, the firs t Olympic Winter Games took place in Chamonix

Vladimir Lenin died; the trial of Richard Leopold and Nathan Loeb shocked and riveted the country.

Flapper dresses were all the rage for modern women, and those women were called flappers

Hitler's "Mein Kampf" was published, as was F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."

In this year mid-decade, actor Rudolph Valentino died suddenly at the age of 31,

Richard Byrd and Roald Amundsen began their legendary race to be the first to fly over the North Pole,

Last but certainly not least , A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" was published, which brought the adventures of Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Christopher Robin to generations of children.

The year 1927 was a red-letter one: Babe Ruth set a home run record that would stand for 70 years;

Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean in the "Spirit of St. Louis"; the BBC was founded.

That great thing, sliced bread , was invented in 1928, along with bubble gum

If that wasn't enough, the first Mickey Mouse cartoon was shown

In the last year of the '20s , Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett flew over the South Pole,

the murder of seven members of the Moran Irish gang in Chicago became infamous as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

Bessie Coleman became the first female African-American pilot, there was extreme inflation in Germany, and the lie detector was invented.