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Chicago poems were published by Carl Sandburg
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The United States enters World War One.
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President Woodrow Wilson announces his Fourteen Points or his peace plan
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Prohibition becomes a law. It was repealed in 1933.
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The Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote.
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T.S. Elliot publishes The Waste Land.
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Wallace Stevens publishes Harmonium.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
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Langston Hughes publishes The Weary Blues.
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Ernest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises.
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Charles Lindbergh flies nonstop from New York to Paris solo.
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The Stock Market crashes in October and the Great Depression starts in the 1930s.
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President Roosevelt closes all banks and Congress passes some New Deal laws.
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John Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath.
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The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind are shown in movie theaters.
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The Japanese bomb the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. This brings the US into World War Two.
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Roosevelt is reelected president.
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Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagaski.
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Truman declared September 2, VJ day, World War Two Ends.
