In its past centuries, the '20s have been a massive time of change —from the economic spikes and seeds of war in the 1920s to the first pilgrims setting off to America in the 1520s. Let's take a look back at some of the defining moments.
, as the wartime devastation of the previous decade gave way to social, artistic and cultural change.
At the turn of the decade, the national Country Party of Australia was founded in Winton, in Central West Queensland.he right of women to voteFurther abroad, Soviet Russia and the Democratic Republic of Georgia signed thecame to an end when military leader Pancho Villa surrendered after reaching a peace agreement with interim Mexican President Adolfo de la Huerta.: 32 people were killed in one of the most significant events to take place during the Irish War of Independence.
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