Modern Era (1901-1945) E4 P1

By amypatrick

  • Edward VII Becomes King

    Edward VII Becomes King after Queen Victoria dies.

  • Australia

    The Commonwealth of Australia is formed.

  • Joseph Conrad

    Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness.

  • Republic of China

    Republic of China established by the Xinhai Revolution.

  • Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.

  • RMS Titanic

    RMS Titanic collides with an iceberg and sinks.

  • ArchDuke Ferdinand

    ArchDuke Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated, leading the United Kingdom into WWI.

  • Easter Rising

    Easter Rising: Irish Republicans attempt to win independence from the British.

  • Treat of Versaillies

    Treat of Versaillies offically ends WWI.

  • Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler becomes chairman of Gernamy's Nazi Party.

  • James Joyce

    James Joyce publishes Ulysses.

  • King Tut

    British archeologiest discover King Tut's tomb.

  • W. B. Yeats

    W. B. Yeats wins Nobel Prize for Literature.

  • Virgina Woolf

    Virginia Woolf publishes Mrs. Dalloway.

  • Women Right to Vote

    Women earn the right to vote in Britian.

  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression: The New York stock exchange crashes and the Great Depression begins.

  • Aldous Huxley

    Aldous Huxley publishes Brave New World.

  • Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin begins purge of Soviet Russia expelling more than 400,000 party members.

  • Dylan Thomas

    Dylan Thomas publishes Twenty-five Poems.

  • J. R. R. Tolken

    J. R. R. Tolken publishes The Hobbit.

  • Hindenburg

    Hindenburg explodes killing 36 passengers.

  • WWII Began

    WWII Began. United Kingdom declared war on Germany; Nazis invade Poland.

  • Winston Churchill

    Winston Churchill become Prime Minister of Britian.

  • Genocide

    Auschwitz concentration camp is established.

  • Virginia Woolf Dies

    She dies in 1941.

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japanize attach Pearl Harbor and the US enters WWII.

  • Germany Surrenders

    Germany Surrenders

  • C. S. Lewis

    C. S. Lewis publishes The Screwtape Letters.

  • George Orwell

    George Orwell publishes Animal Farm.

  • Hitler Dies

    Adolf Hitler committs suicide.

  • V-Day

    US drops two nuclear bombs on Japan ending WWII. (August 6 and 9)