Roaring Twenties

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The Roaring Twenties was a decade of economic prosperity, cultural dynamism, and social change in the 1920s, marked by jazz music, flapper culture, and rapid industrial growth, particularly in the United States and Western Europe.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf decade
historical period
alsoKnownAs Roaring Twenties
surface form: "Jazz Age"
appliesToJurisdiction Western Europe
country United States of America
surface form: "United States"
endCause Wall Street Crash of 1929
endTime 1929
fieldOfWork cinema
jazz
modernist art
modernist literature
popular music
followedBy Great Depression
hasCause mass production techniques
post–World War I economic recovery
rising consumer credit
technological progress
hasCharacteristic Harlem Renaissance
Hollywood film industry growth
Prohibition-era nightlife
art deco style
aviation advances
consumerism
cultural dynamism
economic prosperity
flapper culture
jazz music popularity
loosening of social norms
mass automobile ownership
mass entertainment
modernism
organized crime growth
radio broadcasting expansion
social change
speakeasies
stock market speculation
technological innovation
urbanization
youth culture
mainSubject bootlegging
flappers
mass culture in the 1920s
organized crime in the United States
significantEvent 1929 stock market crash
Harlem Renaissance
Prohibition in the United States
Scopes "Monkey" Trial
surface form: "Scopes Trial"

Teapot Dome scandal
rise of speakeasies
startTime 1920

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Zelda Fitzgerald activeInPeriod Roaring Twenties
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
Roaring Twenties alsoKnownAs Roaring Twenties
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
Daisy Buchanan associatedWith Roaring Twenties
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
Ziegfeld Follies associatedWith Roaring Twenties
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
Nick Carraway associatedWithSetting Roaring Twenties
Jordan Baker associatedWithTheme Roaring Twenties
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
Fordney–McCumber Tariff era Roaring Twenties
Grace Coolidge era Roaring Twenties
The Great Gatsby (1949 film) eraDepicted Roaring Twenties
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
Progressive Era followedBy Roaring Twenties
Interwar period hasPart Roaring Twenties
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
Calvin inOfficeDuring Roaring Twenties
subject surface form: "Calvin Coolidge"
All the Sad Young Men literaryPeriod Roaring Twenties
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
F. Scott Fitzgerald movement Roaring Twenties
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
Josephine Baker movement Roaring Twenties
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
The Great Gatsby (opera) periodDepicted Roaring Twenties
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
Great Depression precededBy Roaring Twenties
Wall Street Crash of 1929 precededBy Roaring Twenties
Calvin Coolidge presidentDuring Roaring Twenties
Flappers and Philosophers setInPeriod Roaring Twenties
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
The Great Gatsby setInPeriod Roaring Twenties
The Great Gatsby setInPeriod Roaring Twenties
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
The Great Gatsby (2000 film) setInPeriod Roaring Twenties
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
The Beautiful and Damned settingPeriod Roaring Twenties
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
Tom Buchanan settingTimePeriod Roaring Twenties
Jay Gatsby timePeriod Roaring Twenties
Meyer Wolfsheim timePeriod Roaring Twenties
Myrtle Wilson timePeriod Roaring Twenties
East Egg timePeriodInFiction Roaring Twenties
East Egg timePeriodInFiction Roaring Twenties
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
West Egg timePeriodInFiction Roaring Twenties
this entity surface form: "Jazz Age"
West Egg timePeriodInFiction Roaring Twenties

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