American Modernism By lovelylis35 Period: Jan 1, 1914 to Dec 31, 1945 American Modernism Aug 1, 1914 WWI Begins in Europe Jan 31, 1917 Original Dizieland jazzband makes first recording Nov 11, 1918 WWI ends May 1, 1919 Sherwood Anderson writes "Winsberg, Ohio" Jul 27, 1919 Race Riots erupts accross the United States Aug 17, 1920 Regulr radio broadcasts begin Aug 18, 1920 19th Amendment is passed granting women the right to vote in the United States May 19, 1921 Emergency Quota Act temporarily restricts immigration from Europe May 1, 1922 T.S. Eliot publishes "The Wasteland" Jun 2, 1924 Indian Citizenship Act grants citizenship to Native Americans May 1, 1925 "The Great Gastby" by F.Scott Fitzgerald is published May 22, 1927 Charles Lindbergh completes first nonstop flight accross the Atlantic Ocean Oct 6, 1927 First talkies motion picture "The Jazz Singer" comes out May 1, 1929 "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway is published Oct 29, 1929 Stock Market crash spurs the Great Depression in the U.S. Nov 7, 1929 Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City Dec 10, 1930 Sinclair Lewis is the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature May 1, 1933 Gertrude Stein writes "The Autobiography of Alice b. Toklas" Period: Jul 21, 1934 to Mar 25, 1939 Dust Bowl in the Midwest May 1, 1936 Margaret Mitchel publishes "Gone with the Wind" May 1, 1937 Zora Neil Hurston writes "Their Eyes Were Watching God" May 1, 1937 Robert Frost publishes "A Farther Range" May 1, 1939 "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck is published Sep 1, 1939 WWII Begins in Europe May 1, 1940 "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Hemingway is published May 12, 1941 First computer controlled by software is developed Dec 7, 1941 Japanese attack Peal Harbor leading U.S. into the war Aug 6, 1945 U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ending WWII
