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Carl Sandburg
Chicago poems were published by Carl Sandburg -
United States enters World War One
The United States enters World War One. -
Fourteen Points
President Woodrow Wilson announces his Fourteen Points or his peace plan -
Prohibition
Prohibition becomes a law. It was repealed in 1933. -
Women's Suffrage
The Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote. -
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Elliot publishes The Waste Land. -
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens publishes Harmonium. -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby. -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes publishes The Weary Blues. -
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises. -
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh flies nonstop from New York to Paris solo. -
Stock Market Crash
The Stock Market crashes in October and the Great Depression starts in the 1930s. -
President Roosevelt closes banks
President Roosevelt closes all banks and Congress passes some New Deal laws. -
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath. -
The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind are shown in movie theaters
The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind are shown in movie theaters. -
Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
The Japanese bomb the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. This brings the US into World War Two. -
Roosevelt is reelected
Roosevelt is reelected president. -
Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagaski. -
Truman declared September 2, VJ day
Truman declared September 2, VJ day, World War Two Ends.
