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1914Europe • Great Britain 
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Magazine cover for "Blast - Review Of the Great English Vortex", No. 1 
1914, 20 June
The Vorticist Manifesto is published in their journal Blast.
1916Europe • GermanyAlbert Einstein proposes the General Theory of Relativity.
1917Europe • FranceMarcel Duchamp exhibits his surrealist work The Fountain using a upturned urinal.
1919Europe • Germany 
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Lucia Moholy
Walter Gropius 
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Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus school of design.
1919Europe • FranceThe French film director Abel Gance (1889-1981) releases the anti-war film J'accuse!. In it he uses wounded actors to portray the ghosts of fallen men. In 1924 John Heartfield created the photomontage After ten years: fathers and sons in which he uses skeletons and marching soldiers to depict the futility of war.
1922North America • USAHollywood's first Technicolor film Toll of the Sea is released.
1922Africa • EgyptThe tomb of King Tutankhamen is discovered by Howard Carter.
1924Europe • FranceAndré Breton (1896–1966) publishes the first Surrealist manifesto
1924North America • USAAT&T sends photographs over a wire. (20 May 1924)
1925North America • USAThe Scopes Monkey Trial takes place in Tennessee.
1925Europe • Great BritainJohn Logie Baird transmits the first wireless photographic picture. (25 October 1925)
1925North America • USAF. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
1927North America • USAThe first talking picture The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson is released.
1927EuropeFirst trans-Atlantic telephone call
1928North America • USAMickey Mouse is shown for the first time by Walt Disney
1928Europe • SpainLuis Buñuel (1900–1983) and Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) makes Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog),
1929North America • USAMuseum of Modern Art opens in New York.
1931Europe • SpainSalvador Dalí (1904–1989) paints The Persistence of Memory
1932North America • USAAmelia Earhart (1897–1937) flies solo across the Atlantic.

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