Modernism By caitlinmcgrinder Period: Feb 26, 1914 to Feb 26, 1945 Modernism Jul 28, 1914 United States enters World War I Feb 26, 1915 The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock (Poetry) By: T.S. Eliot Feb 26, 1916 The Road Not Taken (Poetry) BY Robert Frost Mar 26, 1918 Worldwide Influenza Epidemic Strikes Nov 11, 1918 World War I Ends Jun 4, 1919 19th Amendment was Ratified May 2, 1920 Beginning of The Harlem Reaissance May 6, 1921 The Negro Speaks of Rivers (poetry) Langston Hughes Jun 15, 1921 Hitler Becomes Leader of Nazi Party Feb 26, 1922 The Fugitive (Magazine) Started The New Crticism Movement Apr 28, 1922 Babbit (Fiction) By Sinclair Lewis Feb 26, 1925 The Great Gatsby (Fiction) By F. Scott Fitzgerald Apr 26, 1926 The Sun Also Rises (Fiction) By Ernest Hemingway Jul 26, 1928 Strange Interlude (Drama) By Eugene O'Neil Oct 26, 1929 The Great Depression Begins Jun 18, 1932 Amelia Earhart Flies across the Atlantic Ocean Feb 26, 1933 Establishment of Franklin D Roosevelt's New Deal Mar 26, 1935 The Social Security Act Mar 26, 1935 Debut of Waiting for Lefty (Drama) By Clifford Odets Jul 26, 1939 Germany Began World War II Aug 26, 1939 Nuremberg Laws Feb 26, 1940 Germany Invades Western Europe Dec 7, 1941 Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor Feb 26, 1942 Japanese American Internment Camps Feb 26, 1943 Last Major Deportation of German Jews May 26, 1944 War Refugee Board Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Apr 30, 1945 Hitler Commits Suicide Sep 2, 1945 World War II ends, US joins United Nations