Modern Era (1901-1945) E4 P2

By amypatrick

  • Queen Victoria

    Queen Victoria dies. Edward VII become King.

  • Australia

    The Commonwealth of Australia is formed.

  • Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling wins Nobel Prize for Literature

  • Republic of China

    Republic of China formed by the Xinhai Revolution.

  • Tarzan

    Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.

  • Titanic Crashes

    RMS Titanic collides with an iceburg and sinks.

  • Archduke Ferdinand

    Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated which lead United Kingdom into WWI.

  • Easter Rising

    Irish Republicans attempt to win independence from the British during the Easter Rising.

  • Communist Revolution

    Communist Revolution: In Russia, Vladimir Lenin leads the Bolsheviks in the worlds first communist revolution.

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles ends WWI.

  • Hitler

    Adolf Hitler becomes chairman of Nazi Party.

  • Ulysses

    Ulysses published by James Joyce

  • King Tut

    British archologist discover tomb of King Tut in Egypt.

  • W. B. Yeats

    W. B. Yeats win Nobel Prize for Literature.

  • Women Right to Vote

    Women gain the right to vote in Britian.

  • Stock Market Crashes

    Stock Market Crashes which leads to The Great Depression.

  • Brave New World

    Brave New World published by Aldous Huxley.

  • Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin begin the Great Purge of Soviet Russia, expelling more than 400,000 party members.

  • The Hobbit

    J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit

  • Hindenburg

    Hindenburg explodes and kills 36 passengers.

  • The Sword and the Stone

    The Sword and the Stone is published by T. H. White.

  • Winston Churchill

    Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister.

  • Auschwitz

    Auschwitz concentration camp established, over 5 years millions executed.

  • Hitler invades Russia

    Hitler invades Russia violating Germany's non-agression pack with that country.

  • Vigina Woolf Dies

    Vigina Woolf Dies; author of Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and other writings.

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor: Japaneze attack Pearl Harbor and US enters WWII.

  • The Screwtape Letters

    The Screwtape Letters published by C. S. Lewis.

  • Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie publishes Death Comes as the End.

  • D-Day

    June 6th become as D-Day; Allied troops land at Normandy, France.

  • Animal Farm

    George Orwell publishes Animal Farm.

  • Hitler Dies

    Hitler committes suicide.

  • Germany Surrenders

    Germany Surrenders

  • US bombs Japan

    August 6th and 9th US dropps nucluar bomb on Japan, effectively ending WWII.