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1930-1939 |
Political and
Social History |
Literature |
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1930 |
1930 Sinclair Lewis is first
American to win Nobel Prize for literature |
1930
Katherine Anne
Porter, Flowering Judas. Dorothy Parker, The Waltz.
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying. |
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1931 |
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1931
F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited` |
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1932 |
1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New
Deal" introduces social security, welfare, and unemployment insurance |
1932
Black Elk and
John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks. Sterling A. Brown,
He Was a Man |
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1933 |
1933 Adolf Hitler's Nationalist
Socialist party comes to power in Germany. 18th Amendment repealed |
1933 James Thurber, The Night the
Bed Fell |
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1934 |
1934 Wheeler-Howard (Indian
Reorganization Act) passed, ending Dawes era
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1935 |
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1936 |
1936 Hitler begins armed occupation of
Europe, precipitating World War II |
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1937 |
1937 Amelia Earhart vanishes during her
attempt to fly around the world |
1937
Zora Neale
Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Thomas Wolfe,
The Lost Boy
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1938 |
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1938 John Dos Passos,
U.S.A.
William Faulkner,
Barn Burning |
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1939 |
1939 Richard Wright,
The Man Who Was Almost a Man
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1939-45 World War II. The Holocaust |