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The Moderns
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W.E.B. Du Bois
Was a civil rights activist and wrote " The Souls of Black Folk". Also was very influential on African American literature. The main target of his poems were racism. He protested linching and jim crow laws. -
Einstein
Einstein formulates his theroy of relativity. This is a step towards a more accepted science society. -
Robert Frost
Wrote poems like "The Road Not Taken" -
19th Amendment
Allowed for women suffrage and inspired female writers -
Edna Millay
"The Ballad of The Harp-Weaver" won her the Pulitizer Prize. She was a very influential female writer. -
Ernest Hemingway
Wrote "A Farmell to Arms". Influentail foreign writer -
U.S. Stock Market
The US stock market crashes, leading to the great depresion. Many people are left poor and homeless. This is also a time of great sadness -
John Steinbeck
Wrote the "Grapes of Wrath" and "Of Mice and Men". He was verymuch a realism writer. -
Pearl Harbor
US enters World War II after Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. This sparks anger in americans and their literature. -
D-Day
This was great historical battle and a show of military courage, this was very influential to novelists of war -
United Nations
The United Nations is established creating a sense of peace in the world and cultural mixing. -
Atomic Bomb
US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan; Japan surrenders. This leaves an air of controversy over americans about using the atomic bombs.
