20th Century American Literature P4
Category: Other
Updated: 6 Sep 2017
Kamron Ortiz, John Tan, Mohammed Chaudry, Phoebe Lao
Contributors
Created byKamron Ortiz
Attachments
Events
L. Frank Baum publishes The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (May 1900)Sarah H. Bradford publishes Harriet the Moses of her People (1901)Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle (February 1906)William James published Pragmatism (January 1907)USA entered WWI (1917)Women gain right to vote (1919)F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby (Apr. 1925)Ernest Hemingway published The Sun Also Rises (Oct. 1926)Stock Market Collapse (Oct. 1929)William Faulkner published The Sound and the Fury (1929)William Faulkner published As I Lay Dying (1930)Prohibition Repealed (1933)Dust Bowl (1934)John Steinbeck published Of Mice and Men (1937)WWII began (Sept. 1 1939)Japan bombs Pearl Harbor ( Dec. 7 1941) U.S. joins WWIIGeorge Orwell published Animal Farm (Aug. 17 1945)Two atomic bombs are dropped on Japan, Nuremberg Trials begin, U.N. founded, End of WWII (1945)John Steinbeck published The Pearl (1947)JD Salinger, Catcher and the Rye (1951)Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man (1952)Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird (1960)Allen Ginsberg, Howl (1956)Korean war (1950-1953)Vietnam war (1955-1975)Cuban Missile Crisis (1963)“I Have A Dream” speech given by MLK (1963)Campbell’s Soup Cans, Andy Warhol (1962)The Red Iceberg, Impact publications (1960)South Vietnam is taken over by Communist Forces, forcing the U.S. to surrender.(1975)Orson Scott Card’ puclished Ender’s Game (1985)Stephen King’s IT is published (1986)The Stock market crash known as “Black Monday” occurs (1987)Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Identity was published (1980)The Soviet Communist Party gives up its’ power, thus ending the Cold War. (1990)Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park is published (1990)Lois Lowry’s The Giver is published (1993)George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones is published. (1996)J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone is published (1997)W. E. B. DuBois publishes The Souls of Black Folk (1903)Jack London publishes The Call of the Wild (August 1903)Periods
20th Century American Literature
Comments