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American Modernism
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WWI Begins in Europe
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Original Dizieland jazzband makes first recording
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WWI ends
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Sherwood Anderson writes "Winsberg, Ohio"
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Race Riots erupts accross the United States
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Regulr radio broadcasts begin
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19th Amendment is passed granting women the right to vote in the United States
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Emergency Quota Act temporarily restricts immigration from Europe
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T.S. Eliot publishes "The Wasteland"
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Indian Citizenship Act grants citizenship to Native Americans
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"The Great Gastby" by F.Scott Fitzgerald is published
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Charles Lindbergh completes first nonstop flight accross the Atlantic Ocean
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First talkies motion picture "The Jazz Singer" comes out
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"A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway is published
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Stock Market crash spurs the Great Depression in the U.S.
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Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City
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Sinclair Lewis is the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
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Gertrude Stein writes "The Autobiography of Alice b. Toklas"
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Dust Bowl in the Midwest
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Margaret Mitchel publishes "Gone with the Wind"
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Zora Neil Hurston writes "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
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Robert Frost publishes "A Farther Range"
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"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck is published
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WWII Begins in Europe
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"For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Hemingway is published
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First computer controlled by software is developed
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Japanese attack Peal Harbor leading U.S. into the war
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U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ending WWII
