Modernism

By jennasnider

  • World War 1 begins

  • Olympic track and field champion Jim Thorpe begins his professional football career

  • Because of the war in Europe, travelers are cautioned against transatlantic voyages. The Lusitania would be sunk despite these warnings.

  • Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg appears

  • Bolsheviks seize control of Russia in October Revolution

  • Worldwide influenza epidemic kills as many as 20 million people

  • President Wilson announces his Fourteen Points in peace plan

  • Treaty of Versailles ends World War 1

  • Prohibition becomes Law; repealed in 1933

  • NIneteenth Amendment to Constitution gives American women the right to vote

  • James oyce publishes Ulysses

  • T.S. Elliot publishes The Waste Land

  • The Immigration Act limits the number of immigrants that can enter the United States

  • Thomas Mann publishes The Magic Mountain

  • Virginia Woolf publishes Mrs. Dalloway

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby

  • Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five become a radio headliner

  • Ernest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises

  • Langston Hughes publishes The Weary Blues

  • Charles Lindburgh flies solo and nonstop from New York to Paris

  • Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht write The Threepenny Opera

  • Chiang Kai-Shek becomes head of Nationalist government

  • Stalin's Five Year Plan is adopted

  • Collapse of American silk market hurts workers and farmers

  • Stock Market crashes in October, followed by the Great Depression of the 1930's

  • Mahatma Gandhi leads famous march to the sea to protest British tax on salt

  • Salvador Dali paints the Persistance of Memory

  • The Empire State building is completed, making it the world's tallest building

  • President Roosevelt closes banks; Congress passes New Deal laws

  • Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor

  • Alfred Hitchcock's mystery The 39 Steps is released in theaters

  • Howard Hughes reaches 352 mph in his Hughes Racer, breaking the landplane speed record

  • The Social Secury Act is passed to provide retirement and unemployment benefits

  • Spanish Civil War begins

  • Amelia Earhart takes off from Miami for a flight around the world; she disappears over the Pacific Ocean

  • Japan invades China, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War

  • Zora Neale Hurston publishes Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • The Fair Labor Standards Act establishes a national minimum wage

  • German blitzkrieg invasion of Poland sets off World War 11

  • John Steinbeck writes The Grapes of Wrath in his California home

  • The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the WInd appear in movie theaters

  • Civil Aeronautics Board is created to regulate U.S. commercial air traffic

  • French government signs armistice with Germany

  • Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, bringing U.S. intp World War 11

  • Roosevelt is reelected president for an unprecedented fourth term

  • Dresden is hit by Allied firebombing raid. Firestorm essentially kills city

  • United Nations Charter signed at end of World War 11

  • Atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki