This was also the time of the last great gold rush in the Klondike region of the Yukon. Needless to say, if you weren't part of your country's majority ethnicity, and/or if you were female, your rights were not anywhere close to those of the men who were. On the flip side, if you were born in this decade, you would most likely live long enough to see and probably be involved in the First World War, The Spanish Flu, The Great Depression, the rise of totalitarianism, wartime genocides, and the Second World War. Since this reckoning of time by decades was retroactive, it didn't catch on until The Roaring '20s and the Dirty Thirties, which is one reason why there is no widely-accepted term for either of the first two decades of the twentieth century - and thus why there wasn't for the first two decades of the twenty-first century, either.ĭuring this era, you were generally fortunate as long as you lived in wealthier countries of the world, as it was a time of relative peace (see below). This is the earliest decade which historiography regards as a distinct time period prior to this, history is generally divided into "ages" or "eras" which lasted for a generation, or for the reign of a monarch. It was where what we now recognize as "decade nostalgia" was born, and The Gay Nineties became a popular setting for films of the 1930s, the 1940s and, to a lesser degree, the 1950s and 1960s, by which time it was seen as that innocent age before World Wars and atomic bombs. You see, back in the earlier half of The 20th Century, people became enamored with the 1890s. This trope covers depictions of the 1890s, the realm of Oscar Wilde, William Jennings Bryan, Nikola Tesla, Arthur Conan Doyle and the Gibson Girl. No, not the "gay" you were thinking of, nor The '90s you were thinking of, for that matter. Mickey Mouse cartoon, " The Nifty Nineties" ( 1941)
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