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Ray Bradbury is born - Interwar Period United States
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U.S and many other leading economies crash as the stalk market breaks down at World Trade Centre. Money everywhere loses its value and creates chaos in banks across the country.
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Between 1926 and 1933, the Bradbury family moved back and forth between Waukegan and Tucson, Arizona. In 1931, at age eleven, Ray began writing his own stories. Bradbury wrote on butcher paper during the great depression.
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he Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the authorities of Nazi Germany to ceremonially burn books in Germany by pacifist, socialist, Jewish, and other authors whose ideologies were seen to be subversive to the National Socialist administration.
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Germany feels it in not in her national interest to pursue the ideas of international peace and disamament imposed by the League of Nations.
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This provides Ray with incentive to join acedemic clubs for drama and other arts as well as well as being influenced by the stars of hollywood.
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Facism and ultranationalism in many European countries lead to a war outbreak between allies and axis powers.
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Attack on Pearl Harbour leads U.S to join war on the allied side.
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The U.S attacks the small city of Hiroshima, Japan using the world's first atomic weapon developed in the Manhatten project in the U.S. 3 days later, the U.S. dropped another atomic bomb, decimating the city of Nagasaki.
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Very cold. Because Russia is cold in the winter. Russia and the U.S were competing because of their dfferrences in government and political systems, Democracy v.s Communism. the threat of violence and war outbreak between the two countries was constant.
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The Soviet blocked the Western Allie's railway, road and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, thereby giving the Soviets practical control over the entire city.
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This was an anti- communist ideology that threatened to accuse many citizens of communist support in cold war period.
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Televised case of peressed crated national distain for McCarthy.
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At Mademoiselle magazine, a young editorial assistant named Truman Capote spotted one of Bradbury's short stories, "Homecoming'". Capote picked the Bradbury manuscript, which led to it getting published in the magazine. Homecoming won a place in The O. Henry Prize Stories of 1947
