Modernism By jennasnider May 7, 1914 World War 1 begins May 7, 1915 Olympic track and field champion Jim Thorpe begins his professional football career May 7, 1915 Because of the war in Europe, travelers are cautioned against transatlantic voyages. The Lusitania would be sunk despite these warnings. May 7, 1916 Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg appears May 7, 1917 Bolsheviks seize control of Russia in October Revolution May 7, 1918 Worldwide influenza epidemic kills as many as 20 million people May 7, 1918 President Wilson announces his Fourteen Points in peace plan May 7, 1919 Treaty of Versailles ends World War 1 May 7, 1919 Prohibition becomes Law; repealed in 1933 May 7, 1920 NIneteenth Amendment to Constitution gives American women the right to vote May 7, 1922 James oyce publishes Ulysses May 7, 1922 T.S. Elliot publishes The Waste Land May 7, 1924 The Immigration Act limits the number of immigrants that can enter the United States May 7, 1924 Thomas Mann publishes The Magic Mountain May 7, 1925 Virginia Woolf publishes Mrs. Dalloway May 7, 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby May 7, 1925 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five become a radio headliner May 7, 1926 Ernest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises May 7, 1926 Langston Hughes publishes The Weary Blues May 7, 1927 Charles Lindburgh flies solo and nonstop from New York to Paris May 7, 1928 Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht write The Threepenny Opera May 7, 1928 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes head of Nationalist government May 7, 1928 Stalin's Five Year Plan is adopted May 7, 1929 Collapse of American silk market hurts workers and farmers May 7, 1929 Stock Market crashes in October, followed by the Great Depression of the 1930's May 7, 1930 Mahatma Gandhi leads famous march to the sea to protest British tax on salt May 7, 1931 Salvador Dali paints the Persistance of Memory May 7, 1931 The Empire State building is completed, making it the world's tallest building May 7, 1933 President Roosevelt closes banks; Congress passes New Deal laws May 7, 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor May 7, 1935 Alfred Hitchcock's mystery The 39 Steps is released in theaters May 7, 1935 Howard Hughes reaches 352 mph in his Hughes Racer, breaking the landplane speed record May 7, 1935 The Social Secury Act is passed to provide retirement and unemployment benefits May 7, 1936 Spanish Civil War begins May 7, 1937 Amelia Earhart takes off from Miami for a flight around the world; she disappears over the Pacific Ocean May 7, 1937 Japan invades China, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War May 7, 1937 Zora Neale Hurston publishes Their Eyes Were Watching God May 7, 1938 The Fair Labor Standards Act establishes a national minimum wage May 7, 1939 German blitzkrieg invasion of Poland sets off World War 11 May 7, 1939 John Steinbeck writes The Grapes of Wrath in his California home May 7, 1939 The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the WInd appear in movie theaters May 7, 1940 Civil Aeronautics Board is created to regulate U.S. commercial air traffic May 7, 1940 French government signs armistice with Germany May 7, 1941 Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, bringing U.S. intp World War 11 May 7, 1944 Roosevelt is reelected president for an unprecedented fourth term May 7, 1945 Dresden is hit by Allied firebombing raid. Firestorm essentially kills city May 7, 1945 United Nations Charter signed at end of World War 11 May 7, 1945 Atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki