The 1920s are called the Roaring Twenties because of the economic prosperity, cultural change, and exuberant optimism experienced especially in the United States and other Western countries in the aftermath of World War I. The 1920s were a period of experimentation in the arts, particularly music, with F. Scott Fitzgerald dubbing the era the “Jazz Age.” It was also marked by profound advances for women, including women gaining the right to vote in the United States. The actual name may have been a play on the phrase “the roaring forties,” a boating term used to describe latitudes with strong winds. Regardless, the Roaring Twenties would come to an end with the stock market crash of 1929 and the onset of the Great Depression.