Modernism Timeline By juliannestaten 1914 World War 1 begins. 1915 Franz Kafka's short novel The Metamorphosis is published. 1916 James Joyce publishes Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 1917 The US enters WW1. 1919 Kafka's short story In the Penal Colony is published. 1920 World War 1 ends. 1920 19th ammendment gives US women right to vote. 1921 Irish free state is now called Republic of Ireland. 1922 T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land and James Joyce's complete Ulysses appears in Paris. 1923 Yeats wins the Nobel prize for literature. 1924 Ernest Hemingway's book of short stories, In Our Time is published. 1925 Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf is published. 1926 Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises is written. 1927 Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse is published and Franz Kafka's novel Amerika is released. 1929 The New York Stock Market crashes, resulting in the Great Depression 1930 T.S. Eliot publishes Ash Wednesday. 1933 President Roosevelt closes banks and Congress passes New Deal laws. 1939 John Steinback publishes the Grapes of Wrath 1939 The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind appear in theaters. 1940 Civil Aeronautics Board is created to regulate US commercial air traffic. 1941 Pearl Harbor is bombed. 1944 Roosevelt is reelected president for a fourth term. 1945 US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
