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Roaring Twenties

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  1. The 1920s, referring to the rapid economic expansion and modernization of the period.

    • The economic boom and the “speculative orgy” that pervaded the Roaring Twenties faded abruptly during late October 1929 with the stock market crash (sometimes called the “Great Crash”) that precipitated the rise of The Great Depression.

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