Modern Era at a Glance E4 P7

By amypatrick

  • Queen Victoria and Edward VII

    Queen Victoria dies; Edward VII becomes king.

  • Joseph Conrad

    Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness.

  • Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.

  • Xinhai Revolution

    Xinhai Revolution establishes the Republic of China.

  • Tarzan of the Apes

    Edgar Rick Boroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.

  • Titanic

    Titanic collides with iceburg and sinks.

  • Archduke Ferdinand

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

  • Easter Rising

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

  • Bolshevicks Revolution

    Vladimir Lenin leads teh Bolshevicks in the world's first communist revolution.

  • Treaty of Versailles

    The Treaty of Versailles offically ends WWI.

  • Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hiter becomes chairman of Germany's Nazi Party.

  • Ulysses

    James Joyce publishes Ulysses.

  • King Tutankhamen

    British archaeologist Howard Carter discovers tomb of King Tut in Egypt.

  • William Yeats

    W. B. Yeats awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.

  • Mrs. Dalloway

    Virginia Woolf publishes Mrs. Dalloway.

  • Women's Rights

    Women win the right to vote in Britian.

  • The Great Depression

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

  • The Great Purge

    Joseph Stalin begins the Great Purge in Soviet Russia, expelling 400,000 party members.

  • Dylan Thomas

    Dylan Thomas publishes Twenty-Five Poems.

  • Hindenburg

    Hindenburg
    The Hindenburg explodes, killing 36 passengers.

  • The Hobbit

    J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit.

  • Auschwitz Concentration Camp

    Auschwitz concentration camp is established. Over the next 5 years, millions will be executed.

  • Winston Churchill

    Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain.

  • Virginia Woolf

    Virginia Woolf dies.

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan attacks Peral Harbor. The US enters WWII.

  • Hitler Invades Russia

    Hitler Invades Russia
    Hitler invades Russia violating Germany's non-agression pack with that country.

  • The Screwtape Letters

    C. S. Lewis publishes The Screwtape Letters.

  • D-Day

    Allied troops land at Normandy, France, which later becomes known as D-Day.

  • Yalta Conference

    Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin convene at the Yalta Conference to determine post-war arrangements.

  • Animal Farm

    Animal Farm
    George Orwell publisher Animal Farm.

  • Hitler's Suicide

    Hitler commits suicide.

  • Germany Surrenders

    Germany surrenders.

  • Nuke

    Nuke
    August 6th and 9th: US drops two bombs on Japan, bringing about Japan's surrender and officially ending WWII.