Modernism Timeline

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  • Basic Wage Rates are Increased from $2.40 to $5

  • Colorado Coalfield Massacre

    Colorado Coalfield Massacre

  • Babe Ruth makes first major debut

    Babe Ruth makes first major debut

  • Establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park

    Establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park

  • United States declares war on Germany

    United States declares war on Germany

  • Time zones are established

  • Treaty of Versailles signed, end of World War I

  • League of Nations Established

    League of Nations Established

  • American professional football league established

  • Readers Digest founded

  • Time Magazine published for the first time

  • First winter Olympics held

    First winter Olympics held

  • The Scopes Trial begins

  • The Great Gatsby published

    The Great Gatsby published

  • Amelia Earhart becomes first women to fly over the Atlantic

    Amelia Earhart becomes first women to fly over the Atlantic

  • Martin Luther King is born

  • London Naval Reduction Treaty is signed

    London Naval Reduction Treaty is signed

  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is signed

  • 21st Amendment is Passed

    21st Amendment is Passed

  • Social Security Act passed

    Social Security Act passed

  • Gone with the Wind is published

    Gone with the Wind is published

  • The Grapes of Wrath published

    The Grapes of Wrath published

  • U.S. Congress enacts peacetime conscription draft

  • Lend Lease Act Approved

    Lend Lease Act Approved

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

  • President Roosevelt dies, and Harry S. Truman takes his place

  • Trinity Test in New Mexico

    Trinity Test in New Mexico