1922: The Birth of the Modern World (TRIH ep 137, part 2)
1922 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue their multi-part tour of 1922, surveying political, cultural and geopolitical shifts that helped shape the modern world. They open with Winston Churchill’s Dundee speech and move through the cultural explosion of the 1920s — Hollywood, Chaplin, Hitchcock, Disney — and the mass-media phenomenon sparked by Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1922
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union (1924)