The Decades: 1920
Current Events
League of Nations formed (1920)
Rorschach invents the ink blot test (1920)
Water Skiing begins (1920)
Hitler starts Nazi Party (1920)
Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy (1922)
Depression ending in America (1922)
Literature
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie (1920)
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)
A Country Doctor, Franz Kafka (1920)
Main Street, Sinclair Lewis (1920)
Outline of History, H.G. Wells (1920)
Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley (1921)
Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence (1921)
The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot (1922)
Ulysses, James Joyce (1922)
Etiquette, Emily Post (1922)
Huntingtower, John Buchan (1922)
Tales of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922)
The Beautiful and the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922)
Aaron's Rod, D.H. Lawrence (1922)
Jacob's Room, Virginia Woolf (1922)
Reader's Digest founded (1922)
Bambi, Feis Salten (1923)
The Murder on the Links, Agatha Christie (1923)
The Rover, Joseph Conrad (1923)
The Ladybird, D.H. Lawrence (1923)
First man swims English Channel 16 hrs 33 min (1923)
A Passage to India, E.M. Forester (1924)
Ford Motor Co. produces 10 millionth car (1924)
State of Tennesse forbids sex education (1925)
Queen Elizabeth II of England born (1925)
Soldier's Pay, William Faulkner (1926)
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (1926)
The Plumed Serpent, D.H. Lawrence (1926)
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence (1926)
Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne (1926)
The World of William Clissfold, H.G. Wells (1926)
Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse (1927)
Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis (1927)
Oil, Upton Sinclair (1927)
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (1927)
The Jazz Singer, first talkie movie, Al Jolson (1927)
Johnny Weismuller swims 100 yards in 51 seconds (1927)
Lizzie Border accused of murders (1927)
Point Counterpoint, Aldous Huxley (1928)
Lady Chatterly's Lover, D.H. Lawrence (1928)
Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly across the Atlantic (1928)
First colour motion picture (1928)
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway, (1929)
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
U.S. Stock Market collapses October 28 (1929)
St. Valentine's Day Massacre, gangsters in Chicago (1929)
Construction begins on Empire State Building (1929)