 Modern dramatically altered complexion of American Literature  Proof of Americans that won the Nobel Piece Award.  Nobel Prize for Literature was established in 1901  The first person to win the Nobel piece award was Sinclair Lewis in 1930

 A new literary age was dawning  African American writers came from the south  In 1921 it began with the publications of Countee Cullens  Writers belonged to no single school of literature  They saw them as a new exciting movement

 F. Scott Fitzgerald  T.S. ELIOT  LANGSTON HUGHES  The Great Gatsby  THE WASTE LAND  THE WEARY BLUES

 CHAING Kai- shek  Mahatma Gandhi  Adolf Hitler  Head of nationalist government  Led march to the sea to protest British tax on salt  German chanceller

U.S. enters WWI 1917 WWI ends 1918 Stock market crashes, Depression begins 1929 German airship Hindenburg burns in New Jersey 1937 WWII begins in Europe 1939 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor-U.S. declares war on Japan Hitler declares war on U.S Hitler begins to take power in Germany Worst of Depression: almost 25% unemployed 1931 Roosevelt elected president 1932 Hitler appointed himself President in Germany 1934

 1917-WWI begins  1929-Stock market crashes  1933-Roosevelt closes banks  1940-cival Aeronautic board created  Japan bombs Pearl Harbor  Roosevelt reelected

 1945-Atom bombs dropped  Sept 2, WWII ends  World Events  France- Treaty ends WWI  Japan: collapse of American Silk Market hurts workers  Germany: Hitler becomes German Chancellor  Spain: Spanish civil war begins  Poland: German blitzkrieg invasion sets off WWII  United Nations charter end of WWII

 The Devastation of World War 1 brought a new era of Literature which was called Modernism Lit.  The War brought a end to Optimism that characterized the years preceding of war  People strived to find new literature that better fit the twentieth-century life style

 The Harlem Renaissance stared up in 1921  The Harlem Renaissance was based out of Greenwich Village, and soon was all over Paris, and starting to showing in Manhattan.  many new poems and books where coming out during this time because it was a new era of writing and lit.  we never really saw African Americans be creative with there writing and ideas. But now that we are coming into a new era we see the African Americans being creative with writing and other lit. 

 Modernist movement was ushered by a poetic movement known as Imagism  The movement occurred in 1917  Imagism attracted both the United States and England  Imagists rebelled against the sentimentality nineteenth century poetry.