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Modern and Comtemporary
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Assassination of Archduke Franis Ferdinand
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Adolf Hilter takes control of new National German Worker's (Nazi Party)
Adolf Hilter's control of the Nazi Party widely affected British literature because the British felt so bad for the abused Jews that they wrote a lot of literature about it, including "The Holocaust and its affects on the World." -
At the depth of a global depression, the British unemployment rate is 23%.
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George V dies: Edward VII renounces throne and Edward's younger brother becomes king.
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Depression and despair drive writer Virginia Woolf t suicide.
Virginia Woolf wrote many novels and other publishings in her day. She was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. She was very popular before her death and when she did commit sucide it was a great loss for British Literature. -
At the end of World War II, British military and cilivian losses total 360,000.
The end of the war resulted in a lot of different articles written about the war and how it affected them. -
World War II ends: the United Nations is formed.
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Cuban missile crisis ends with removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
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Equal Pay Act ensures that British women's wages wil equal those of men with the same jobs.
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Britian returns Kong Kong to China after 155 yrs. of of colonial rule: Princess Diana dies in Paris auto accident.
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Zadie Smith publishes 'White Teeth' a novel about two London families, one Jamican and one Bengali.
