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World War 1 begins.
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Franz Kafka's short novel The Metamorphosis is published.
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James Joyce publishes Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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The US enters WW1.
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Kafka's short story In the Penal Colony is published.
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World War 1 ends.
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19th ammendment gives US women right to vote.
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Irish free state is now called Republic of Ireland.
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T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land and James Joyce's complete Ulysses appears in Paris.
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Yeats wins the Nobel prize for literature.
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Ernest Hemingway's book of short stories, In Our Time is published.
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Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf is published.
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Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises is written.
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Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse is published and Franz Kafka's novel Amerika is released.
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The New York Stock Market crashes, resulting in the Great Depression
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T.S. Eliot publishes Ash Wednesday.
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President Roosevelt closes banks and Congress passes New Deal laws.
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John Steinback publishes the Grapes of Wrath
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The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind appear in theaters.
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Civil Aeronautics Board is created to regulate US commercial air traffic.
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Pearl Harbor is bombed.
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Roosevelt is reelected president for a fourth term.
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US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
