The Modernist Period By Lauren pepping Period: 1910 to 1945 THE MODERNIST PERIOD 1915 JIM THORPE FORMER OLYMPIC TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPION BEGINS HIS FOOTBALL CAREER 1916 CARL SANDBERG'S CHICAGO POEMS 1917 UNITED STATES ENTERS WWI 1918 PRESIDENT WILSON ANNOUNCES HIS 14 POINTS IN PEACE PLAN 1919 PROHIBITION BECOMES LAW 1920 19TH AMENDMENT TO U.S. CONSTITUTION- WOMENS RIGHT TO VOTE 1922 T.S. ELIOT PUBLISHED THE WASTE LAND 1923 WALLACE STEVENS PUBLISHES HARMONIUM 1925 F. SCOTT FITZGERALD PUBLISHES THE GREAT GATSBY 1926 LANGSTON HUGHES PUBLISHES THE WEARY BLUES 1926 ERNEST HEMINGWAY PUBLISHES THE SUN ALSO RISES 1927 CHARLES LINDBERGH FLIES SOLO AND NONSTOP FROM PARIS TO NEW YORK 1929 STOCK MARKET CRASHES IN OCTOBER, GREAT DEPRESSION FOLLOWS IN THE 1930S 1933 CONGRESS PASSES NEW DEAL PROGRAMS 1933 ROOSEVELT CLOSES BANKS FOR 4 DAYS TO SEE IF THEY WILL SURVIVE 1939 JOHN STEINBECK PUBLISHES THE GRAPES OF WRATH 1939 THE WIZARD OF OZ APPEARS IN THEATERS 1940 RICHARD WRIGHT PUBLISHES NATIVE SON 1940 CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD IS CREATED TO REGULATE AIR TRAFFIC 1941 JAPANESE BOMB US NAVAL BASE PEARL HARBOR , US JOINS WW2 1944 ROOSEVELT REELECTED PRESIDENT FOR A FOURTH TERM 1945 US DROP ATOMIC BOMBS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
