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History of the 20th century. Volume 3, 1920-1929

Uses archival photographs, sound recordings, and film footage to explore world events, sports, life-styles and achievements during 1920-1929. America shifted from a rural to an urban society, signalling a new era of development which ended with a shattering crash in 1929. Includes the end of World War I; Prohibition in the U.S.; Al Capone's reign of terror in Chicago; the Sacco and Vanzetti executions; the age of the flapper; Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic; the stock market crash on Black Thursday; Warren Harding; Calvin Coolidge; Herbert Hoover; the reorganization of the Ku Klux Klan; the founding of the NAACP; the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs; Johnny Weissmuller and his three gold medals; and Babe Ruth.

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