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Robert Frost is born
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Carl Sandburg is born
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Thomas Stearns Eliot is born
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E. E. Cummings is born
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James Thurber is born
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F. Scott Fitzgerald is born
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Ernest Hemingway is born
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John Steinbeck is born
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W. H. Auden is born
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World War I begins
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The KKK resurrects, racism normalized
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"The Love Story of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot is published
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British intelligence intercepts the Zimmerman Telegram
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The World Series is fixed
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African Americans were legally lynched by mobs without trial
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The United States decides to stay out of international conflicts
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There is a ban on all alcohol in the United States
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The Harlem Renaissance begins
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is published
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Flannery O'Connor is born
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The first movie with dialogue is produced
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Herbert Hoover is elected president of the United States
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The United States experienced a recession
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The Great Depression begins in the United States after the Stock Market Crash of 1929
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The Dustbowl leaves parts of the United States in a drought, 1/4 of Americans out of work
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Roosevelt is elected president of the United States
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FDR introduces his new deal
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"The Night The Ghost Got In" by James Thurber is written
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The Social Security Act is passed to prevent future depressions
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is published
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World War II begins
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The United States joins World War II
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The Allies win World War II