The Modernist period By kpatrick 1914 Assassination of Ferdinand 1915 Lusitania sunk by German U-boats 1916 Carl Sandburg publishes Chicago Poems 1917 USA enters WW1 1918 Woodrow Wilson announces 14 points 1919 Prohibition becomes a law 1920 US gives women right to vote 1922 T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerlad publishes The Great Gatsby 1926 Earnest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises 1926 Langston Hughes publishes The Weary Blues 1929 The stock market crashes 1933 Roosevelt closes banks; congress passes the New Deal laws 1933 Prohibition repealed 1939 John Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath 1939 The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind appear in theaters 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and US enters WW2 1944 Roosevelt reelected as president for a fourth term 1944 D-Day 1945 US Atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 WW2 ends
