1. a time of World War
   a time of lively cultural change
2. an era of terrible economic hardship

During the 1920s, the Western world was caught up in wild times, when massive cultural changes swept the region. It was the Roaring Twenties, an amazing inter-war era.

1. Great Depression
   Korean War
2. WWI

From 1914 to 1919, World War I killed millions of Western people and leveled much of Europe. The Roaring Twenties saw the West roaring back to life.

1. True
2. False

Before WWI, America's population was mostly rural. In the '20s, though, everything changed. The bulk of Americans lived in cities, and that shift altered culture and politics in countless ways.

1. dance
   grunge music
2. rap

The West was caught up in dance crazes of all kinds during the '20s. From the tango to the foxtrot to the waltz, dancing became a true phenomenon and hobby for many people.

1. an element of the Great Depression
   part of indoor plumbing
2. a progressive woman

During the '20s many Western women embraced a freer lifestyle, dancing, partying, smoking and dressing the part. They were the flappers, the progressive women who cast off the more conservative ideals of the past.

1. The economy more than doubled in size.
   The economy collapsed.
2. The economy didn’t change at all.

The '20s were a time of incredible prosperity, particularly in America, which saw its economy double in size. Of course, the good times couldn't last … the Great Depression was looming on the horizon.

1. smartphones
   private airplanes
2. automobile

In America, automobiles were the item that everyone wanted to have. By the end of the decade, Ford pushed the price of its Model T so low that just about any family could afford one.

1. outlawed alcohol
   abolished slavery
2. gave women the right to vote

In 1920, Congress ratified the 19th Amendment, which finally gave women the right to vote. Some embraced their new right … many did not, saying that voting was a man's job.

1. hip hop
   jazz
2. black metal

From the slums of New Orleans came jazz, the brass-heavy music that took the world by storm. Their elders decried the music, but young people everywhere embraced jazz as a breakthrough music style.

1. Germans
   African-Americans
2. Irish

In America, the Great Migration saw more than 1 million African-Americans leaving their traditional homes in the South for the North and West. It is still one of the biggest human migrations ever, and it wasn't caused by war or lack of food.

1. breasts
   arms
2. buttocks

By today's standards, the flappers were exceedingly conservative. But back then, their arm-baring dresses were a wild development that had the older generations in a tizzy.

1. Yes
2. No

No way. During Prohibition, many people cut back on their drinking, but many others did not. Bars and saloons found creative ways to serve booze, which helped fuel the partying of the '20s.

1. 0.05%
   20$
2. 60%

During Prohibition, the Volstead Act sent out droves of law enforcement personnel to prevent the sale of alcoholic beverages. No concoctions stronger than 0.05% alcohol were allowed

1. a common venereal disease
   a type of car
2. an illegal bar

As Prohibtion clamped down on alcohol, speakeasies -- illegal bars -- sprang up all over America. Many of these bars found loopholes they used to serve liquor, or the owners simply paid off local authorities.

1. air conditioners
   radios
2. color TVs

The '20s witnessed the proliferation of radio. Pittsburgh saw the first commercial radio station in 1920 -- just three years later, there were 500 such stations all over the country.

1. lynchings
   segregation
2. all of the above

Sure, the Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery in the 1860s, but segregation and racism were still very much a part of Southern culture in the '20s. Black Americans left the South and its conflicted culture for better lives elsewhere as part of the Great Migration.

1. "bedrooms on wheels"
   "mechanical slaves"
2. "four wheels of death"

Cars completely altered the social lives of young people, giving them new freedom to travel and adventure … and some conservative types abhorred the trend, calling automobiles "bedrooms on wheels."

1. booze sales
   cocaine smuggling
2. human trafficking

Alcohol restrictions didn't limit drinking much, but they definitely benefited criminals. Prohibition drove alcohol into the black market, where organized gangs made a killing.

1. about 100
   about 1,000
2. about 50,000

Capone was the most notorious mob boss of the '20s, viciously seizing control of vice markets throughout the Midwest and beyond. He had as many as 1,000 henchmen working for him.

1. dresses
   mittens
2. cosmetics

Before the '20s, in many Western countries cosmetics were linked to prostitution. With the coming of the flappers, though, many women began to embrace makeup.

1. alcohol consumption
   Communism
2. flappers

The Red Scare of 1919 and 1920 was a widespread paranoia against Communism. Politicians fanned the flames, and Americans took an aggressive stance against immigration.

1. True
2. False

In Western Europe, there was a backlash to progressive social norms, just as in America. Many communities in Europe initiated greater government control of alcohol and its retail sales.

1. an important politician
   a boxer
2. a war hero

During the '20s, Jack Dempsey fought his way out of low-level matches and elevated himself to heavyweight boxing champion of the world. In doing so, he became an icon of the decade.

1. World War I
   Irish famine
2. homosexuality

World War I devastated Europe in tragic ways, altering evey aspect of society. "All Quiet on the Western Front" was a grim novel that summed up many of the dire experiences of the war.

1. Membership declined.
   Unions boomed.
2. Congress banned all unions.

During WWI, unions were the place to be. Once the conflict was over, though, union membership tanked, in large part because the economy was booming across the land.

1. 20%
   200%
2. 2000%

The American economy was unbelieveably strong in the '20s. Each year of the decade, the stock market grew about 20% ... but of course, the good times never last.

1. Calvin Coolidge
   Herbert Hoover
2. Gerald Ford

Ford wouldn't be president until much later. Coolidge held down the fort in the middle of the decade, and then passed the reins to Hoover, who later probably wished that he'd never become president.

1. Michael Jordan
   Babe Ruth
2. Arnold Palmer

In the '20s, Yankees star Babe Ruth came to embody many traits of the era. He made his sport look easy while partying, feasting and womanizing to excess.

1. True
2. False

At long last, refrigeration became a common convenience during the '20s. Families all over America rejoiced at the fact that they could keep their food from spoiling.

1. Because 1929 became 1930.
   World War II began.
2. The stock market crashed.

In October 1929, Black Tuesday struck -- and the stock market crashed. Suddenly, America was plunged into the Great Depression, and it would be years before the country saw the light of day.