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Was a civil rights activist and wrote " The Souls of Black Folk". Also was very influential on African American literature. The main target of his poems were racism. He protested linching and jim crow laws.
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Einstein formulates his theroy of relativity. This is a step towards a more accepted science society.
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Wrote poems like "The Road Not Taken"
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Allowed for women suffrage and inspired female writers
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"The Ballad of The Harp-Weaver" won her the Pulitizer Prize. She was a very influential female writer.
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Wrote "A Farmell to Arms". Influentail foreign writer
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The US stock market crashes, leading to the great depresion. Many people are left poor and homeless. This is also a time of great sadness
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Wrote the "Grapes of Wrath" and "Of Mice and Men". He was verymuch a realism writer.
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US enters World War II after Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. This sparks anger in americans and their literature.
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This was great historical battle and a show of military courage, this was very influential to novelists of war
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The United Nations is established creating a sense of peace in the world and cultural mixing.
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US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan; Japan surrenders. This leaves an air of controversy over americans about using the atomic bombs.
